http://www.cheerychocolate.com/chocolate/cake-recipes.html Chocolate cake recipes aren't all alike. Some chocolate cake recipes are better (and easier) than others, too. en-us Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:12:37 EST Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:12:37 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 All chocolate cake recipes are not created equal. There's your basic chocolate cake, a decadent Death by Chocolate cake, Chocolate Volcano cake, mocha chocolate cake, and on and on and on. Some chocolate cake recipes are really easy, some are intermediate and some are very advanced. But our favorites here at Cheery Chocolate are the ones that are easy, but the result tastes advanced. To Illustrate Our Point.... Check out the chocolate cake recipes you have at home, or just think about the kinds of chocolate cakes you make most often. (Of course, making a cake usually requires a special occasion. It's not like in the 1950s when kids could come home and find some kind of baked goods ready and waiting every day.) If you're like most people, you use a mix when you're going to bake a cake, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. It simply saves you a few steps when it comes to the dry ingredients. You'll notice that most cake recipes, especially chocolate cake recipes, call for any or all of the following: Sifted flour, cake flour or even sifted cake flour Baking soda Unsweetened cocoa powder Sugar Some call for more dry ingredients than that, others less. But with a cake mix, it's all in one box. Now, let's say you want to take your cake mix and make it more "homemade." There are things you can do, such as adding a box of instant chocolate pudding to the mix, or adding sour cream for a richer, more moist cake that make it a more specialized chocolate cake recipe that's unique to you. In fact, there's a book called "Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor" that is full of different ways to turn ordinary cake mixes into even more delicious chocolate cake recipes. It also have other chocolate recipes. The author is even able to take brownie mixes and make them into something better than what the normal product turns out to be. Check it out! Maybe you can make a Death by Chocolate cake that tastes like you slaved away for hours, when really it was easy as....cake?! Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:12:37 EST