Claim Jumper's Motherlode
(One layer of one slice is more than enough for me)
Posted on 01/27/2016 7:34:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
I don't get all worked up about every food holiday, but I'm having trouble containing my exuberance for National Chocolate Cake Day. And after recent studies showed that chocolate cake, as part of a balanced breakfast, can help you lose weight? I'm in.
In case you're looking for a new favorite chocolate cake recipe to celebrate National Chocolate Cake Day in your own home, I thought I'd share links to a few of the recipes I've published over the years. If you've got a favorite chocolate cake, share your recipes in the comments below.
Mrs. Schembechler's Hershey Cake:
Bo Schembechler had his first season as the Michigan football coach in 1969. That fall, The Ann Arbor News ran a profile of his wife, Millie, and some of her favorite recipes.
"Mrs. Schembechler Enjoys Cooking With A Southern Flair," ran the headline. In the article. Millie described her decorating style, and shared her recipes for crab dip, southern shrimp gumbo, chicken and dumplings, rolled braciole and a Hershey cake.
Double Chocolate Layer Cake:
For something so delicious, it's a remarkably quick and easy recipe to execute. One of the things I love about the recipe is that you don't have to mess with double boilers or trying to melt chocolate in the microwave. The chocolate for both the cake and the frosting is chopped and then melted by adding it to hot liquids. I also love that there are no hard-to-find ingredients.
The only real challenge here is picking out what kind of chocolate you want to use for the recipe.
Meet Your New Favorite Chocolate Cake:
Here's what I love about this recipe: it has all the things that are wonderful about chocolate cake, like a deep chocolatey richness, without being too sweet. If you love dark chocolate like I do, and relish the kind of chocolate flavor that doesn't hurt your teeth with its sweetness, you're going to love it too.
The cake comes together fairly quickly, and bakes in just 25 minutes. Don't over-bake it, or it will quickly dry out.
Get a jump on Valentine's Day with this Red Wine Chocolate Layer Cake with whipped mascarpone: Is there a better expression of romantic love in food than chocolate? The answer is yes. Better than chocolate is chocolate and wine. And cake.
This cake is dense and moist, with just a hint of wine flavor. The whipped mascarpone frosting layers add a sweet tang to balance it all out.
Ina Garten's Chocolate Mocha Icebox Cake:
An icebox cake is traditionally made by layering cookies or wafers with whipped cream, then setting it in the refrigerator (or "icebox") overnight. The cookies absorb moisture from the whipped cream, and by the time you're ready to serve, they've taken on the texture of something resembling a layer of cake.
Jessica Webster covers food and dining and life and culture for MLive and The Ann Arbor News. Reach her at JessicaWebster@mlive.com. You also can follow her on Twitter and on Google+.
arggggggg Just started a diet - no cake for me!!
I didn’t know.
Now they tell us!
Bread pudding.
My wife is preparing hot fudge sundaes as I type this. Gotta go.
I’m not. I don’t like chocolate cake.
Please share.
Just got done making a batch of tollhouse chocolate chip cookies with pecans. Eating them with banana pudding I made last night.
Vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet. Yum!
Claim Jumper's Motherlode
(One layer of one slice is more than enough for me)
With pecan pie, hate chocolate cake. Yummmm
I made Cowboy cookies last night. Never again! They’re so good I can’t stop eating them. Lol
Leftover al gore armageddon cake from last night. Chocolate cake with cocoa frosting.
Oh bummer! I’m grocery shopping tomorrow .. however, I’ll have a belated celebration with Pepperidge Farms Chocolate layer cake. It’s in the Freezer isle .. and yes, you keep it in the freezer. It’s great if you don’t have a lot of company, in that it keeps well in the freezer. The taste is just perfect .. dark chocolate .. yum ..!!!!!
What are cowboy cookies?
Why, we had a chocolate cake, of course!
It was my son Sam's sixth birthday. :-)
. . . 
International Bacon Day is the Saturday before Labor Day, but there is another Bacon Day on December 30th.
Oh bummer! I’m grocery shopping tomorrow .. however, I’ll have a belated celebration with Pepperidge Farms Chocolate layer cake.
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As long as you stay away from any product with the name “Sarah Lee” on it you will be O.K.
Similar to the Queen of England having two birth days. One on her real birth day and her “official” birth day some time in June.
Two bacon days is good. I have bacon probably 200 times a year.
Don’t worry about me dying young though, I’m already too damn old for that.
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