Although I'd already made a terrific batch of lemon sugar cookies earlier in the day, I also had set out ingredients in order to make a cake on the first day of spring Saturday a week ago. It was yet another chocolate cake (there are so many good recipes out there!) but this one was a monstrosity, both to some extent in the making of it but also in the huge final result (which was almost too tall for my big cake keeper!).
Since it was three-layer, I divided up the batter and just slid one pan onto the lower rack, not realizing that even with three pans the layers still baked up above the rim
...and so it expanded up into the oven rack above it!
I was also sorry to see that one of the other layers had a partial sinking or collapse, so the slices cut from that region had to be a bit askew and also overstuffed with frosting.
In the end, it's always going to be hard to turn down chocolate cake, and this one proved both a great temptation and a rich indulgence.
"The Most Amazing Chocolate Cake," from Rachel Farnsworth of TheStayatHomeChef.com. [Published 26 February 2013]
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