My boyfriend had an eyelash on his cheek last night, so I got it on my finger and told him to make a wish and pressed my finger to his (the idea being whoever ends up with the eyelash gets their wish to come true). Well, we lost the eyelash so I said neither of our wishes would come true.

He said, "That's OK, I only wished for cake." Whaa? Who wishes for cake? He said it was chocolate cake he was wishing for.

Sooo, my boy NEVER drops any hints about anything he may want and I finally have one. Now I need a fabulous incredible the-best-chocolate-cake-in-the-world recipe. My sister swears by the Devil's Food Cake in the Joy of Cooking, and hers is delish, but I made it a few months ago and it was only ho hum for me. Please give me your recipes!

P.S. I wished for a vacation. I guess I won't get it. :(

*bump* for the chocoholics!

I've posted this before, but I'll say it again because it's just that damn good. I got the idea from the Cake Doctor thread.

Ingredients:
1 box white cake mix (you could try chocolate for an extra boost)
1 pint Ben and Jerry's Phish Food

It comes out like magical Phish Food cake. Soooo good.

I make it as cupcakes, but instead of using cupcake cups, I use ice cream cones - the kind with flat bottoms. This is especially good for Phish Food cake, because Phish Food has little chocolate fishies swimming around in it and they sink to the bottom. That makes one revolting mess in cupcake cups.

Good luck!

I make the Hershey's Black Magic cake all the time. Super easy, super yummy.

Black Magic Cake

2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups flour
3/4 cups cocoa
1 t baking soda
2 t baking powder
1 t salt
2 eggs
1 c buttermilk (OK to use regular)
1 c strong coffee
1/2 oil
1 t vanilla.

Combine dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients. Pour into 8" or 9" prepared pans. Bake approx 30 minutes at 350.

My favorite easy frosting is 1 bag (12 oz, 2 cups) chocolate chips melted and folded into 1 large tub (16 oz) sour cream. It's tangy, smooth, easy and so good.

Bon Ap!

-Lara

I swear by the Ghirardelli's Grand Fudge Cake:

2 cups all purpose flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup GHIRARDELLI Unsweetened Cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/3 cup milk
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and lightly flour two 9 x 1 1/2-inch round cake pans. In a medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt and set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar on medium high speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Reduce speed to low and add vanilla and eggs one at a time scraping bowl after each addition. Alternately add flour mixture and milk (starting and ending with the flour mixture), while mixing on low speed. Continue to mix until smooth. Pour into prepared pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center of cake comes out clean.

I usually put a thin layer strawberry preserves between the layers - then cover the whole thing in melted dark chocolate and top with sliced strawberries.

Oh, dear. I don't "do chocolate" anymore, but I must agree with Lara -- the Black Magic Cake is utter moist, chocolatey chocolatey heaven.

With creamcheese frosting it is like crack was a cake...

OK, I'd better leave this thread now! Why'd I even come into this thread?!?

Man how sad is it that this thread is making me salivate... :)
jt

Thanks for the recipes. I happened to have a zucchini so I tried a chocolate zucchini cake (although there was so little zucchini as compared with the volume of the cake that I think it's in there more to make you feel better than to provide any moistness to the cake). Unfortunately, my tongue was numbed by spermicide so I couldn't really taste it that well. I think it was good. Does anybody else's tongue get numb if they go down on their boy after he's been wearing a spermicidal condom? Maybe this should be a new thread.

your boy got a blowjob AND some chocolate cake? damn - you are a good girlfriend!

Hahaha, well I'm glad I sound like supergirlfriend. The thing is, he treats me like a GODDESS and I always feel like an inadequate girlfriend because no matter how much I do he's always done more.

I had a bad day at work on Wednesday, so when I finally got to leave (8:30!), he told me to meet him at Central Market Cafe and he'd have already ordered my food. When I met him there, our food came about two minutes after I arrived. Then he wanted to go for ice cream at Amy's (yummy local place), and I wanted to walk because it's only about 1/2 mile from Central Market. He didn't really want to but he humored me and we walked over and had ice cream. (Note he is paying for all of this.) Then we went back to my place and he gave me a full body rubdown (resisting the urge to make it something sexual) for about 45 minutes so that I was so relaxed I could barely move.

After this pampering, chocolate cake and a blowjob was the least I could do.

We've only been dating about two months, and as you can see we are still in the honeymoon phase!

Um, can I recommend flavored condoms? No numb tongue.

Um, yes, nonoxydol-9 causes tongue numbness.

Now, I don't know exactly *how* I know this...

Anyway, some people are actually allergic to the spermicide, too. (As in rashy badness. Ow.)

Man, you are like supergirlfriend! Wow.

Maybe I should go home right now and...bake! ;)hee-hee!

unrelated to being a supergirlfriend, i just realized that the black magic cake recipe is the one we used at the summer camp i used to work at. we called it "sin cake" cos it tasted like sin but the original recipe card said black magic...ohhh man, that stuff was SO good and i always wished i had copied down the recipe.

i am totally making this cake very very soon.

yay!

jess

in fl i made a buttermilk devil's food cake with fresh orange cream cheese frosting from the cake mix Dr. book...yummm.

-S

Chocolate Dump-It Cake
(Adapted from Judith Hesser)
2 cups sugar
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 stick unsalted butter, plus more for greasing the pan
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the pan
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups Nestle's semisweet-chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups sour cream, at room temperature.
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and place a baking sheet on the lowest rack to catch any drips as the cake bakes on the middle rack. In a 2- to 3-quart pot, mix together the sugar, unsweetened chocolate, butter and 1 cup of water. Place over medium heat and stir occasionally until all of the ingredients are melted and blended. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly.
2. Meanwhile, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, stir together the milk and vinegar. Grease and flour a 9-inch tube pan.
3. When the chocolate in the pot has cooled a bit, whisk in the milk mixture and eggs. In several additions, and without overmixing, whisk in the dry ingredients. When the mixture is smooth, add the vanilla and whisk once or twice to blend. Pour the batter into the tube pan and bake on the middle rack until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 to 35 minutes. Let the cake cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan and cool on a rack. (This can be tricky -- if someone is around to help, enlist him.) Let cool completely.
4. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler, then let cool to room temperature. Stir in the sour cream, 1/4 cup at a time, until the mixture is smooth.
5. When the cake is cool, you may frost it as is or cut it in half so that you have 2 layers. There will be extra icing whether you have 1 or 2 layers. My mother always uses it to make flowers on top. She makes a small rosette, or button, then uses toasted slices of almond as the petals, pushing them in around the base of the rosette.
Yield: 10 servings.

>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/magazine/12FOOD.html

I made the Black Magic Cake to take to my in-law in-laws the other night. It was delicious! I made it in two layers, but it seems like it could be a three layer cake (the layers rose to the very top of the pan). I was worried because the batter was *super* thin, and the cake seemed too airy to hold together, but it was fine. I loved the moist rich taste. Thanks for the recipe.

As far as cake- I just use mixes, but I found a great Mocha frosting recipe in Southern Living- it's basic, cocoa, powdered sugar, butter/shortening, and a tblspoon of instant coffee granules dissolved in water. Yumm!
It's so funny that you mention the numb-tongue thing-my boyfriend mentioned yesterday that he had one from going down on me after sex!I just laughed maniacally.

marvy