What makes a chocolate cake recipe so special?

When it comes to baking, we all have a different way of going over it. Some people comply with a recipe exactly while others take a recipe to make it their own. So long as the end result works out very tasty, what does it really matter? Experimenting and getting new ingredients and ways of baking is a part of people having their own preferences and creativity. Plus, it is the method in which new recipes are put into publication. There's something which is, in my opinion, incredibly hard to mess up - a chocolate cake recipe. There isn't a chocolate cake recipe in existence that hasn't become something which I've regarded as terrible. Sure, some of them could use some improvement, but chocolate is my weakness. So long as it turns out fluffy and moist, I'm in heaven.

No matter what cookbook you go through, you will discover a chocolate cake recipe, or several, which will tempt you beyond belief. You will have diverse toppings, ingredients or icings that will be suggested. You can select the chocolate cake recipe that matches the amount of work that you're comfortable with making. Would you like to get more information on chocolate? This French post about chocolate (chocolat) carries some helpful information and may be interesting for you to have a look.

My grandmother used to make the finest cakes. Yearly, for my birthday, she would bake me a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. For me, there is nothing better. She never shared her recipe with anyone, she merely enjoyed we all drooling over it and praising her skills. Her birthday cakes were the key reason I looked toward my birthdays. In her final year of life, she was quite sick. My birthday was a week away and she called me to inform me that she was incredibly sorry but she wouldn't be able to bake my cake. She did not feel that she had the strength or energy. But, she wished to pass along her secret chocolate cake recipe we all longed to get. In a day, it was within my hands. I read over it, realizing that the last ingredient listed was "love". My eyes welled up and I decided that I would be baking my own birthday cake that year. I did exactly that, following her chocolate cake recipe to the exact details. On the night of my birthday, I took my grandmother a piece of cake. She ate it very slowly, telling me how great it was. I saw the look of happiness in her eyes.

Regardless of how many chocolate cake recipes you will find within your lifetime, you'll always have one that you're attached to. Perhaps it just tastes the best, or possibly it has emotional meaning.