Cake #4 Chocolate Fudge Cake

Fudge! That's right. Nothing can go wrong with a Chocolate Fudge Cake. This super sweet cake just happen to be a perfect representation of my sugary sweet weekend. Recently, Ted and I taught Evie how to give kisses. It was slow going at first, with a many slaps, raspberries, and fingers to the face and mouth. However, once Evie understood what "kiss" meant, she would let both Ted and I kiss her if we said "kiss". Yesterday, while I was playing with Evie, I hopefully questioned, "Evie come give Mommy kiss?" And that beautiful red-head crawled her way over and kiss me right on my lips! It was slobbery and sticky and everything sweet. Now Evie's new game is kissing. She has kissed her unicorn pillow pet (see the "after-effects" picture below), her pooh telephone, Daddy, and Shakes. Boys- watch out, Evie will come for a smooch!

What a better way to end this already sweet weekend with a saccharin induced tooth-ache? When Ted saw that the cake was a chocolate fudge cake, he got anxious that I was a little slower today in the baking process and actually began make the cake himself! He got out all of the ingredients, which consisted of butter, semisweet chocolate, milk, flour, baking powder, dark brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla, and to top that off, he melted the chocolate and beat the eggs! After that stressful endeavor, he handed over the whisk and told me to get to work. This was one of the more straight-forward cakes we have had to make so far, the only thing that was different for this cake was that we were making our own icing this time. The frosting was a simple recipe of semisweet chocolate, butter, sugar, vanilla, and milk.

What I still do not like about this book's recipe's is that all the cakes are dense and on the dryer side, I prefer light and fluffy cakes, and I am hoping  once I get to some of the cupcakes or Puff desserts they will be more to my liking. My husband on the other hand, LOVED the chocolate cake. Favorite part of making this cake - shaving the chocolate on the top!

Here is the book's picture:

Here is my copycat picture of our cake:

Here is our full cake:

Next week we will be attempting a Marbled Chocolate & Vanilla Ring... Until then!