As I have mentioned, I am the official office cake baker. Whenever someone has a birthday, I find out what they want and I make the best version I can find. I also make cakes when people leave and for other office occasions. In the past couple of weeks we have had 1 graduation, 1 birthday, 2 people leaving and 1 person converting to Judaism. That's a lot of cake. I had said I was on cake maternity leave until after baby #2 arrives in a few weeks, but it seems I just can't help myself.
There is a woman who has been helping out in our office who converted to Judaism this week. She said she likes things that are cake and chocolate and when I saw this coming up for Baked Sunday Mornings, I figured she would really enjoy this cake.
This is a serious cake -- oreo crust, flourless chocolate cake, chocolate pudding and whipped cream. You have to really like chocolate. Despite all those layers, this cake is lighter than I thought it would be. The whipped cream is totally necessary to lighten things up and neither the cake layer nor the pudding layer are too sweet.
I did learn something very important with this cake. Most of the time, especially when I make things with a graham cracker crust, I just crush the cookies in a bag with a rolling pin instead of getting the food processor dirty. I did that with this cake, but it did not work well. The crust was too chunky and hard to cut and it took up too much room in the pan, so there was not room for all the pudding. Next time, the food processor is coming out. It was still delicious though. Don't be scared of all the steps -- you can actually do a lot of them at once. While the crust is cooling, make the cake. While the cake is baking, make the pudding. Then put the cake and the pudding in the fridge to cool and all you have to do the next morning is assembly. I highly recommend this cake for other chocoholics in your life. Check out the Baked Sunday Mornings website for the recipe and to see what other bakers did.
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When I can eat dairy again, I want this.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful! I didn't get to this one but it's on my list! Glad to know it is "light"! Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteYour right there's always a reason ro make cake! Looks yummy.
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem with having no room for the pudding. Fun to make something so different!
ReplyDeletePretty! Super chocolate-y.
ReplyDeleteYou are so thoughtful! I hope someone makes you a cake whtn you have yoru baby. My pudding didn't set at all, so we just had the flourless mocha cake in the crust with whipped cream - it was great as is.
ReplyDeleteHappy 4th of July!
I agree that there's too much cake and pudding -- this would probably work out better baked in a 10-inch springform pan. Your office is very lucky to have you as its an official cake baker!
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