I don't know about that. I made it, and the recipe wasn't terribly hard. So that was good. And the cake did turn out to be light and moist, with a nice texture. But the chocolate flavor wasn't very rich. More sweet than chocolatey, since the only chocolate flavor came from cocoa powder. And the cake tasted strongly of cinnamon. Elliot compared it to pumpkin bread, and I think he was right on!As far as having a decent texture and feel, this is my best cake so far. My cakes have tended to end up dry and overdone at the edges. But I thought the flavor of this cake was lame. I don't think I would make it again, but it did turn out OK.
Question: Does anybody know how to get your cake to come out flattish? Mine was way fatter in the middle, so it was hard to ice. All the icing pooled along the edges!
-Kristin
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In the 70's when every one was making cakes, wasn't there a Mississippi Mud Cake people kept making? I can't remember if it was good or not.
Whenever I watch the cake decorating people on TV... their cakes come out as you described and they take what looks like piano wire and run it across the top to cut off the poofy top before icing. I think what you are doing is right and you just need to "level" the cake like the pros do.
Don't show my mother those nuts on top!
I hate nuts too. What a way to ruin a great dessert!
What happened to the other half of this Happiness Blog. Is she posting on an Un-Happiness blog someplace since we haven't seen her on here for a bit?
I think Kaye is right about the cake rising in the middle. It just happens that way. I didn't know about cutting it off!
I'm going to try the cutting wire thing! They are really cheap on Amazon.
Yeah, where is that slacker?
I have a recipe in my book called "Maddie's Chocolate Cake" I never got to try. I wonder if the Kyger's remember that and if they would recommend it.
Can you send it along? I could make Maddie's chocolate cake!
I'm just looking at the recipe again. The title is "Maddie's Chocolate Cake" but the ingredients for the cake do not include chocolate. It is just in the icing that is chocolate, so I don't think it was what you were looking for after all. I can send it if you still want it, though.
i'll give it a try! don't worry about it if it is a pain to send though.
Is that really our Maddie's cake? She used to make up desserts a lot that would include lots of sprinkles. I remember one where she put a load of sprinkles in the bottom of an ice cream cone and ice cream on top of that and it had a fancy new name. Just crunchin' sprinkles at the end.
The sprinkles thing made me laugh! Remember those cupcakes people would sometimes make in ice cream cones? That might be fun to do with the kids!
I remember when grandma and grandpa took you to "that other' buffet place when you were little? As dessert they had sprinkles for the ice cream and I think you filled your pockets with them.
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