Okay, though I hate it when people alter the recipe, I'm guilty of doing it for this recipe. I'm sure the recipe is fabulous as is, but I made slight modifications. I replaced about 3/4 of the water with coffee and added a couple of squares of dark chocolate to the cocoa mix. I took out half of the butter and substituted it with 1/4 c. applesauce. Also replaced 1/2 c of all purpose flour with whole wheat and added about 2 T of flax seeds. Other than the coffee, I couldn't even taste any of the substitutions! And yumm man was that cake good eatin'.

Reviewed On: Apr. 19, 2009

I took out some of the brown sugar in the filling and added sliced apples. Yumyum!

Reviewed On: Apr. 3, 2009

This recipe was good, but there were some things I would have liked to change. First off, I only used 1 can of tomatos plus the tomato paste and it was STILL way to tomatoey. The rice took much longer than 20 minutes to cook as well just as a heads up. Overall, it was still good. I added some okra and it was delicious

Reviewed On: Jul. 5, 2008