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When it comes to birthday cakes, I’m used to making sweet, icing-filled creations in the shape of Disney characters, and I’m unfazed by such requests, but my dad, a dark chocolate lover, asked me to bake a cake for a lavish birthday luncheon, which requires another level of sophistication.
There are great recipes for flourless dark chocolate cakes. But without flour, the cake has very little structure, so it’s not a good choice for a celebration cake that needs to look fancy and have enough layers to feed a crowd. Instead, I make a standard chocolate cake…
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