Baking - The Worlds # 1 Chocolate Cake
Let me give you a bit of background, About 15 years ago I owned a large Bakery called "Slice of Heaven", specializing in real "Homemade" cakes. We sold our cakes to cafes, coffee shops and lunch shops in a 20 mile radius from the bakery and turned down a lot of new business because we couldn't handle it.
Being a Chocolate Cake enthusiast, I was always on the look out for the "perfect commercial recipe" i.e. yummy ! dark ! and EASY TO PRODUCE.
There are plenty of "yummy" chocolate cakes around, but have you seen what goes into them ??. Apart from costing a fortune to make, they all involve a lot of time and effort to produce, heaps of chocolate, lots of eggs, [separated no doubt] and a ton of butter, which had to be creamed, etc. etc. etc.
To do all that commercially took too long... ended up being far to expensive and, more often than not, were not especially great tasting anyway.
I tried 26 recipes trying to find that elusive GREAT Chocolate Cake. It was all doom and gloom !!
Then, about a year after I started looking for "That Recipe" we were on holiday...lazing about...and I decided to jot down a few notes, based on my experience with cakes and producing easy "yummy" recipes.........
THE LIGHT DAWNED !!
I produced my own recipe for what I now call, "Black Midnight Cake". It took the next month playing with the mixture, [and getting fatter, trying it !!], before the final Cake was acceptable.
The Result Was Stunning !!
Five (5) Minutes to prepare.
Yummy !! Oh My......Is it Yummy !!.
So Dark....I Called it " Black Midnight Cake".
Extremely Moist. (Always leave it overnight....minimum).
The longer you leave it the more moist it becomes.
Very Economical to make.
So good....serve it for desert with a chocolate sauce.
You do not need to be an expert cook to produce a great cake.
And Best of all, just throw all the ingredients into the mixer and beat it.