Let us eat cake!! (But first, I need a recipe!)

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<p>2boysinma,</p>

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<p>Yes, please!</p>

<p>thumper,</p>

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<p>Yes, please! It won’t be for this occasion, but that just means it’ll be for another!!</p>

<p>CountingDown, </p>

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<p>Thanks! </p>

<p>Now about this chocolate mousse your H makes… where is his holiday party, please? :D</p>

<p>Chocolate mousse… Years ago, oh, so long long ago, I was hosting a dinner for a visiting business associate. So… people in my field, some of whom I knew pretty well, and others, not so well. </p>

<p>I made two desserts; I can’t recall at the moment what one of them was, but the other was chocolate mousse, which I’d never made before. Well, it was supposed to be chocolate mousse, anyway… but I discovered, after the dinner, while musing at all the only partly-eaten chocolate mousses, that I’d overbeaten the cream, so what I served was actually chocolate butter. And these were people I was hoping to impress, too… so now I must eat a serving of every dessert I want to serve before I serve it! (Please don’t mess with my rationalization; thank you! :D) </p>

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<p>Thank you, all, very much! </p>

<p>I read through the Black Magic Cake recipe, and it is nearly identical to the recipe I’d used for last year’s birthday cake (the request was for chocolate cake with mocha or coffee icing and chocolate chips), which was a big hit, so I made that one again today, and iced it with whipped cream with strawberries whipped into it, and then with extra slices of strawberries on top.</p>

<p>When spawn and I were talking and I mentioned last year’s birthday cake, he decided that since the cake we were taking tonight wasn’t really his birthday cake (we were having dinner with friends and he didn’t want this to be his birthday celebration), he wanted chocolate cake with mocha frosting instead!</p>

<p>And that is why I had to, just had to, eat four pieces of the black magic cake with whipped cream topping… to make room for Monday’s cake!</p>

<p>Now if someone would kindly forklift me out of this chair, I’ll head for bed; thanks!</p>

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<p>I’m trying to figure out what the problem would be with chocolate butter. Sounds good to me! And the black magic cake with whipped cream and strawberries sounds delectable too.</p>

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<p>Here’s the "doctored " cake mix recipe. It’s fairly standard, I think…but it came from my MIL and it’s what she was always asked to bring when she went to someone’s house.</p>

<p>Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a tube cake pan (bundt or otherwise). Can also be made in a loaf pan. I recently made it in two 9" spring form pans. ( I’m a big fan of spring form pans!!!)</p>

<p>Mix for 10 minutes on low speed:
1 Devils Food cake mix
1 small package of instant chocolate pudding mix
4 eggs
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sour cream</p>

<p>Add 6 oz mini choc chips</p>

<p>Bake 50 to 60 minutes. Turn onto plate after 25 minutes. </p>

<p>Can be frosted with any flavor icing.</p>

<p>Since it is a somewhat dense cake (although very moist) I like it with a “light” topping. The last time I made it with the 2 spring form pans I filled the center and the top with chocolate whip cream (whipping cream, about 1/2 pack of instant choc pudding and about 1/4+ cup cocoa. The instant pudding keeps the whip cream from getting runny, if you’re not serving it right away.) I put crushed Heath bars on top of the whip cream in the middle, and on the top of the cake. Looked quite impressive, and it was a crowd pleaser! </p>

<p>Tasted a little like the choc cookie/whip cream refrig cake. Do any of you children of the '60s remember that delightful dessert? I can’t believe how expensive that pack of choc cookies is now, though!</p>

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<p>That cookie/whipped cream dessert was my father’s very favorite. We called it “ice box dessert.” I have no idea where that name came from, as we called that appliance a refrigerator. :confused:</p>

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<p>I loved that cookie/whipped cream dessert. </p>

<p>My mom used to make another dessert she called ice box cake. It was store-bought ladyfingers layered with a chocolate sauce and refrigerated until the chocolate sauce soaked into the ladyfingers. She’d cut it and serve it with whipped cream. Yum, it was so delicious.</p>