What's that? A cake?!?! Where are the cookies from Martha's book, you say? Don't worry, they'll be back. Kevin turned 36 on the 9th so I needed to make a cake worthy of him for his party. I picked up two kinds of Betty Crocker cakes mixes for him to choose from: Triple Chocolate Fudge and Chocolate Fudge. Well, true to Kevin's chocolate-loving ways, he couldn't choose just one and he wanted both. So, a mile-high, four-layer cake it was!
I alternated the flavors with the layers and then covered the entire cake with homemade chocolate-cinnamon frosting! Is your mouth watering yet? If not, it should be. I usually make buttercream frosting so I'm never quite sure on the best chocolate frosting. I followed the recipe on the can of Hershey's Cocoa. I made a double batch and then realized that 1. it wouldn't be enough frosting and 2. it was just too rich, dark and not sweet enough for my taste. I ended up adding about 2 more cups of powdered sugar (to finish off the boxes) and then a bunch of ground cinnamon. Absolutely divine!
I had just enough frosting (I scraped the bowl for every last bit) and added some chocolate sprinkles for decoration. The frosting was some of the easiest I have ever worked with and it spread like a dream. It was one of the quickest cake I ever frosted. In fact, I was too lazy to deal with couplers and tips, so I just used the pastry bag with a snipped tip that I used to fill between the layers to pipe the detail along the bottom edge. I really liked the simple, uneven waves it created that a tip, or even coupler, wouldn't have produced.
Well, as you can imagine, the cake was a huge hit and most came back for more. Even I loved it and I'm not a big fan of such chocolaty desserts! Definitely a keeper.
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