This is Chocolate Velvet Fudge Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes.
I was looking forward to this cake, feeling like having some chocolate cake lately. So looking forward to it that I bought the Nordic Ware 6 cup bundt pan. This pan has been on my list for a while so I finally "succumbed" and got it.
This cake is on the Quick & Easy list and boy it is quick and easy. So quick and easy it is that after mixing all the dry ingredients with butter and cocoa mixture, I tasted the batter a little bit with my fingers, and then thought to myself, hm... it's very bitter (I had just bought Schaffenberger cocoa powder and am using it for the 1st time). How come it's very bitter, I continued to ponder. And then a light bulb moment: crap, I forgot to add sugar. Quickly add sugar, mix it a bit (yes I had exceeded the prescribed mixing time at this point). Then add in the eggs & water mixture. Poured in the pan and hoping and praying that the extra mixing will not be catastrophic.
Well it did but for a different reason, I think. Rose said to use a silicone bundt pan, which can only mean one thing, I thought, that this cake must be pretty sticky. So I sprayed the pan generously and went to all the nooks and crannies with a silicone brush. With all that effort, my cake came out like this.
Sniff...
Oh well, nothing but a generous dusting of powdered sugar can't fix.
The cake is very dense and fudgy. And very chocolat-y, in a good way. I really like the chocolate taste (yay Schaffenberger cocoa powder). I think it's a bit too dense for me (wonder if the extra mixing is the cause). It would be so good with some vanilla ice cream, but by itself is a bit plain. Hubby gave it a 6 (out of 10), saying - and I quote - "for a beginner baker this is good, but for you it's a 6." Hmm... I guess that made me feel good about myself LOL. See what 1 year baking from RHC did, it turned us into cake snobs!
Additional tasting impressions:
I just had a full slice of cake now (earlier I only had a couple of bites) and am now vowing to give this cake another chance. Which means a RE - DO, sometimes in the future. Not exactly sure when, with 42 cakes to go from the book. I will use a different cocoa powder then, and perhaps with a side of vanilla ice cream :).
Ohhh pretty! I like how you went heavy on the dusting... looks like snow!
ReplyDeleteAnd we are totally cake snobs!
Haha! Cake snobs; you'll have to start turning out the Saint-Honore Trifle more often.
ReplyDeleteaw, your crust is so nice and shiny everywhere else! good thing you tasted the batter before you baked it! yours looks a lot denser and fudgier than mine did, but unfortunately i have no photos to prove it to you. i did use a silicone pan but that shouldn't make too much difference, right?
ReplyDeleteMine stuck a bit too but powdered sugar covers all! Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteLol - I love your hubby's comments about your baking. I'd definitely take them as a compliment!
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Your husband's funny. It's definitely something my husband would say too :o) Too bad you didn't like the cake's texture. I have no idea what went wrong. I remember making Rose's yellow cake and forgetting the sugar and adding it later w/o any issues. Definitely re-do this cake. It's a winner!!
ReplyDeleteI'm back to let you know I baked this cake in my silicone pan and I had the same problem with sticking. Talk to you later.
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ReplyDeleteGreat pictures! I would also like to give this a redo sometime.