This weeks Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is a big old-fashioned devils food cake. It's a nice moist cake with a deep, not too sweet chocolate taste. It's relatively easy to make, but rather time consuming. The original recipe calls for a meringue type marshmallow-y frosting. Though I'm sure it's a delicious frosting, Dave and I are not huge meringue fans. Instead, I just made a simple butter cream frosting. Dorie decorated her cake by crumbling up one of the cake layers and using the crumbs. I thought it would be so pretty to have a four layer cake, so I just used some toasted coconut as decoration.
This was a nice, big fudgy cake that makes many servings. It would be great for a birthday party or other celebration.
Please see this weeks host blog, Confessions of a City Eater. You can find the recipe there. http://confessionsofcityeater.blogspot.com/2009/02/twd-devils-food-white-out-cake.html
Your photos are just gorgeous this morning! That third photo is just the best looking piece of cake that I have ever seen :)
ReplyDeleteWow! Thank you! You're just too sweet. I wish you were here to eat some of the cake...it's huge!
ReplyDeleteI would love a piece too! It looks sooooooo good!
ReplyDeleteToasted coconut looks and sounds delicious. Your cake looks great. YUM!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cheryl and pinkstripes!
ReplyDeleteMmmm...toasted coconut! Great idea. And the butter-cream looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard to look at those pictures while I am dieting. :) Everything always looks so good, you are an amazing cook and baker.
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