Death By Chocolate Cake

I got this one from my sister, Natalie. It's a Double Dark Chocolate Cake (dark in the cake and dark in the glaze). The only difference in our recipes is that she uses a microwave to make the glaze and I prefer a double-boiler method. It is Deeeee-lish!

Double Dark Chocolate Cake

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix together for 2 minutes:

Dark chocolate cake mix (Ghirardelli makes one)

1 small instant chocolate fudge pudding

1 cup sour cream

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

Stir in 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Grease bundt pan, bake 50-55 minutes at 350.

Cool 10 minutes, turn out cake and cool THOROUGHLY before glazing.

GLAZE

2 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate (60% cacao bittersweet - Ghirardelli)

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

3 Tbsp butter

2 Tbsp water

1 tsp vanilla

Melt chocolate & butter in a double boiler (I put a metal mixing bowl inside a medium sauce pan full of boiling water. OR melt butter and chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals, until melted. Add powdered sugar alternately with water. Add vanilla. Pour over cake.

Halloween Cake - Eat Dirt!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

It's been far too long since I had an excuse to decorate a cake. Jimmie doesn't like cake, so I don't make them for his birthday.

I was inspired about a month ago when I found a skeleton garland at the dollar store in St Louis. I decided then and there that I'd be making a halloween cake.

I had some serious fun putting together these graveyard cakes tonight. I was baking a cake to take to a work party tomorrow, so I thought I'd just double the fun and take one to the church trunk or treat and chili cookoff, too! My favorite part ended up being the 'picket' fence around the pumpkin patch.