Lots of imaginings here! https://www.facebook.com/imagineiticed

Will have her do a cupcake cake for birthday party in June, which I'm giving for my high school classmates.

with chocolate on chocolate.

still. i vote a simple butter white icing.

since i voted, do i get a piece.

do it!!!!

I'm thinking maybe I can make up the white frosting, frost half the cake, then add cocoa and put chocolate on the other half. Or is that the coward's way out?

Most definitely, chocolate

yum

and I will respectfully tell you that if I had some, I would not put it in a frosting, **shudder**
I only want sweet, not the tang that the sour cream would give.

Alas, I have no cream cheese, but I do make an amazing carrot cake when I put my mind to it, and that of course calls for a cream cheese frosting. I always add chopped pecans to that frosting.

you are making me very hungry!

even in various combinations, and my mind's tastebuds don't like a cream cheese with chopped pecans frosting on this particular chocolate cake. It doesn't have the sturdiness the carrot cake has to support that frosting.

I do have walnuts in the house, and maybe I'll do a chocolate frosting with chopped walnuts.

I am inordinately partial to chocolate myself.

And for those of you here who also bake, if you've never tried this recipe, you should. It comes out incredibly moist, to the point where it's actually better a day or two later.

I'll try that recipe. Thanks.

(only because I rarely have chocolate, and it's been a while.)

It'll come out of the oven in a few more minutes -- just checked it and it needs more baking -- and then need to give it about an hour or so to cool down enough to frost.

A heavy snow band rolled in and then just sat there for 8 hours.

Enough of it melted that I can see a few patches of pavement in the driveway but the car's still covered.

Chocolate cake can be good with either but I prefer chocolate frosting on the theory that if it's not chocolate, it's just not worth the calories.

Chocolate frosting with walnuts.

If anyone is actually in Santa Fe, PM me and I'll get a piece to you.

be there in 12 hours!!!

it should be just about perfect. Even though I'll have a piece in a bit, this cake really is better the second or third day, when it's not quite so fresh. Don't know why, but at least to me it's that way.

of coffee, instead of vanilla for flavoring. Haven't done that in a long time.

mocha's my absolute favorite!!!

Otherwise it looks just like that!

Texas Fudge Cake, which is the only other cake I ever bake. I would have made that today, except my recipe calls for Crisco, and I'm all out. Haven't made that in a long time, either.

I love to bake. I live alone. Several years ago I got in the habit of baking some sort of goodie (cake, cookies, brownies) and bring into work to share with co-workers. It was sadly obvious how few of them had never had anything not made from a mix.

I never do.

That looks quite good!

simple, but I often reserve a cup or two of something just to try another ingredient.

Enjoy.

I didn't see this till today, but I'd have voted for chocolate!