Reviewed: Apr. 17, 2012

When I beat the flour mixture together, it immediately clumped up like bread dough. Putting the rest of the wet ingredients in that point didnt help. I've made very few cakes from scratch, but it sure seemed like something was off here.

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UcityChristy

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Reviewed: Mar. 24, 2012

This was the ugliest cake I've ever made--it fell apart when I took it out of the pans and crumbled like crazy! I used a lot of icing as glue to piece it together; it really looked a mess. The TASTE, however, is quite another matter. It was delicious! I LOVED the icing (best chocolate icing EVER and I will use it ever after) and the cake is really rich and chocolatey. I would try it again and hope for better results next time as far as the appearance, but my family has really enjoyed eating it!

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MMMICHELLE

Reviewed: Mar. 19, 2012

The cake was very tasty, although very dense. The following day it had the consistency of very dense brownies rather than cake. But it was very yummy!

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Jenny

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2012

My cake came out a little crumbly but those crumbs are so moist and delicious. I tried cutting the amount of butter and used a chocolate stout so maybe the decreased fat made my cake fall apart. But it's so good me & the family don' even care. I didn't even frost this cake it's so good on its own.

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PITTIPAT

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2012

super yummy - it does have a little banana taste :-) don't know where that comes from.

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barbara

Reviewed: Mar. 17, 2012

I used this frosting with a different cake because I didn't have creme fraiche or superfine sugar. best frosting I have ever made!

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Kit

Reviewed: Mar. 16, 2012

Not too rich, very tasty. My friends and I all tasted banana for some reason? Maybe its in the Guinness. I ended up with probably twice as much icing as I could fit on the cake, I will cut the icing recipe in half next time.

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agmartin161

Reviewed: Mar. 11, 2012

This cake is yummy. The cake isn't very sweet but the icing brings the sweetness in. Loved the dark chocolate.

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rae

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2011

The cake is a 5 star cake. I had to knock the frosting down a bit tho, thus the 4 star rating. The only thing I changed was to make cupcakes, but other than that I made this cake EXACTLY as instructed, and I made the frosting EXACTLY as instructed. I'm NOT a beginner cook, and I've taken cake decorating classes before. The problem I had was w/ the frosting. It was the right consistency for a filling, but not for piping work. I ended up using the frosting to fill my cupcakes, but a different recipe to frost them. It's an amazing from scratch cake!

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