You will never use a box cake again. Seriously. This is just as easy, you already have the ingredients, and it is delicious! Tender and dark. It has a perfect texture for a cake, and a nice rich chocolately flavour. (for the topping, I mix one can of sweetened condensed milk with two bars of unsweetened chocolate in the microwave. Chop the chocolate so it melts easily- so easy, so rich and thick) This cake is a chocolate lover's dream.

Reviewed On: Nov. 15, 2009

This cake was easy to make. It is delicious and tender. It is not too sweet and the glaze goes on thick but melts beautifully over the warm cake. A word of caution- the cake was very tender, so removing it from the pan was a little bit difficult- make sure your pan is properly prepared! I served it with a lemon and apricot whipped cream- It was perfect! (Whip the cream. Add powdered sugar. Then fold in lemon juice, lemon zest, and a bit of the leftover apricot nectar.) Yummy!!

Reviewed On: Nov. 15, 2009

This icing is delicious. You will be tempted to eat it without cake. It is also truly easy. I put it in an icing bag and piped it, for beautiful professional looking cupcakes. I wish I had thought to take a picture. They looked like the cupcakes you'd buy in a store, and it was unbelievably easy. Everyone loved them, even people who usually skip the icing. I would have liked to bump off half a point though. My beautiful swirls lost some of their intergrity, pudding certainly tastes better than crisco, but it will not hold up as well. When the cupcake were served the icing had begun to sag, just a little. (Really, less than you are picturing. I only mention it in the interest of full disclosure. What do you expect from a mix of pudding and whipped cream?)

Reviewed On: Aug. 24, 2009