So I must admit that I am not a chocolate cake lover(flourless being the exception to this), in fact I will usually pass on it. However, back when I was 9 years old we went back to visit my grandmother and grandfather. My grandmother was a horrible cook and luckily for us, rarely did cook. My grandfather loved to trap us in the car and go for drives in the car that lasted for hours. For a 9 year old nothing is worse. One afternoon we made a stop....thank God, we usually didn't get to stop. We stopped at my aunt's mothers house and she invited us in for cake. I was very excited....released from the car AND cake. Then I saw it, chocolate cake. Ugh. I had already said that I wanted cake before I knew what it was, so I knew I had to be polite and eat it or my mother would have killed me. So there it sat in front of me. It was a homely cake, the frosting all uneven, but piled up nice and high. It sat there with my big glass of milk. And sat there. Until finally, my mother broke down and … [Read more...]