Chocolate Blackout Cake
First off, sorry for the lack of posts, but foodgawker has been "eating" up all of our time. We hope to get back on a more frequent schedule soon. Second, we had our one year blogiversary at the beginning of the month, but sadly we didn't get chance to post about it. Hungry Bear did make this incredible chocolate blackout cake to celebrate the milestone.
She used a blackout cake recipe from Sweet Stuff: Karen Barker's American Desserts, but substituted bittersweet Valrhona chocolate for the semisweet. The cake is absolutely delicious, but it's time consuming to make because of the many steps... coffee brewing, pudding creating, cake baking, cookie crumbling and icing making. We loved the pudding and the cake part. There was an extra layer of unused cake and it was fantastic by itself.
The icing tasted good, but we didn't like the hardened texture and it was difficult to work with. If we had to make it again, we would use Gale Gand's fudgy chocolate frosting instead. Or we would skip the icing, double the pudding quantity, use all four cake layers and top it with pudding.
Still, it was one of the best chocolate cakes we've made and definitely worth the effort!
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Happy blog birthday — and thank you for all the work you’re putting into Foodgawker. Love the chocolate cake, and would be happy to relieve you of any pesky leftovers!!
Mmm Valrhona… Sounds insanely rich and I want it. Thanks for that link to Gand’s frosting recipe.
wow, that photo made me gasp. looks amazing.
Well, it certainly looks worth all your efforts! It’s gorgeous!
Great to have you back!! That last photo is just gorgeous - wonder if I have any chocolate around here…
What a way to come back. That cake makes my chocolate-craving body perk right up. I have never used chocolate pudding in the middle before. Was it stabilized with gelatin?
What a wonderful cake! I love that name… Delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
That cake looks seriously problematic…as in it will “probably” make me fat since I’ll eat the whole thing in one sitting ;)
Yummm. Gotta try it. Thanks for the link to foodgawker. I grabbed myself a widget. Your site? it’s gorgeous.
This cake looks fabulous - happy 1 year anniversary! Thanks for all the work on foodgawker - it makes me hungry when I know I shouldn’t be.
i firmly believe that one can never consume too much chocolate. this cake is glorious. beautiful and decadent and delightful–bravo. :)
Happy blog birthday! The cake looks wonderful!
Oh how lovely! I love the shine on the icing. Great job!
That looks so decadent and chocolaty and good!
Holy Hannah, that looks good! Happy blog birthday!
I could get addicted to this cake. And my jeans would never fit me again! :)
Beautiful!
love the looks of that blackout cake! Gale Gand is amazing - I want to eat at the restaurant she cooks at in Chicago!
Happy belated blog anniversary! That cake looks delicious.
This looks like a dream of a chocolate cake, I’m going to add it to my “to bake” list!
Sweet jeebus this looks good. *faints*
Happy 1 year Blogiversary! I am not patient enough to make this cake, but it looks SO delicious!
I just need to add a TON of candles to that chocolate beauty and it’ll be my birthday cake!
Great job on FoodGawker Chuck, I always wonder if you ever sleep!
Happy belated blogiversary and OH MY WORD, that cake! All chocolate goodness looking. Wow. It looks delicious!
Oh yeah. That definitely satisfied my need for chocolate cake. Made it with a girlfriend, we went the more pudding, no icing route and heartily recommend it. We ended up making 2 batches of pudding to cover the whole thing. We forgot to add the 1/2 cup milk to the dry ingredients in the first batch of pudding and came up with a delicious chocolate pudding/icing (pudcing?) which we used as the outside icing. Yummy-ness all round!
Last note: pudding is WAY easier to make than I thought it would be!! Thanks for this recipe and happy blogiversary!
This is my favorite cake, and well worth the trouble. I’m convinced it has to be this time-consuming to make to keep everyone from eating it all the time.
Congrats on the blogaversary and thanks for your hard work on Foodgawker. I’d like to stick my finger through that icing and get a nice taste!
Chuck,
First off, great work on Food Gawker, very commendable what you are doing for the food blogging community. The anniversay cake looks scrumptious, great photos.
–Marc
Darn! Darn! Darn! I now have car keys in my hand and ready to drive to a bakeshop so I can get an inferior chocolate cake. I have to satisfy this chocolate-craving monster you woke up in me! Thanks a lot!
delicious cake, thanks for sharing.
So where’s the freakin’ recipe???
I’m Haley, Key Ingredient’s Chief Blogger. We would like to feature this recipe and photo on our blog. We realize it is taken from another source, but we’ll be sure to note that…we just feel you’ve done a great job putting this meal together! Please email haleyglasco@gmail.com if interested. Thanks :)
Haley
so like IF i was ever going to make a chocolate cake. this would be it. it looks freakin AMAZING…
This cake looks awesome! And the icing must be amazing… not to talk about Valrhona semisweet chocolate
a chocoholics dream. It looked so good I am going to have myelf a piece of cake, ill be right back :)
Chuck, this is the third or fourth time I’ve come here to visit this cake. At some point, I’ll have to move beyond visitation and make it myself.
this looks just incredible—I could practically lick that photo.
OMG - that looks AMAZING! Yum! That would cure any chocolate craving, I’m sure!
IT WOULD BE NICE TO POST THE RECEIPT OF THE CAKE THAT WAS FEATURED ON THE COUNTRY COOK’s SUNDAY PROGRAM.