As a girl, there are days when all I want to do is dive headlong into a pool of chocolate and do the backstroke in it. I’m talking about this bad craving for all things cocoa when, uhm, once each month, I am reminded of the fact that I am not the boy with a curl, but the GIRL with a curl.
This past weekend, I had an intense craving for chocolate cake. And very specific KIND of chocolate cake. Does anyone remember the Devil’s Food Cake with White Icing at Chocolate Kiss in UP Diliman? (I wonder if that place is still open.) I loved that cake; it was chocolate bliss, the kind I was hankering for. (Ross should remember that cake with fondness too, but for different reasons. Ahehe.) But Chocolate Kiss is a 14-hour plane ride away and I was kind of sick and it was hot and gross in LA. So, given all that, I made this:
And topped it off with Marshmallow Icing, which is the traditional boiled, Seven-Minute Icing that you whip up in a double boiler, except that you beat in a cup of mini mallows at the very end until it melts into all that fluffy goodness:
The frosting was too soft to be piped, so I just piled everything on the cake, made swirls on the top with the back of a spoon, and finished off with a dusting of powdered cocoa.
That cake was soo good. It wasn’t Chocolate Kiss good, but it cured my cravings by hitting all the right chocolate spots. I even ate a slice for breakfast the following day. (I baked the thing, so I am allowed to eat it when I deem appropriate – and that’s first thing in the morning with a tall glass of ice cold milk! Yum.)
But the fact that I made all of this in under an hour and a half isn’t the real story.
THIS picture is. Can you tell why?
Teehee!
This post is for Ate Christine, who thinks I make everything from scratch. 
May 1st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
yes, i very fondly remember Chocolate Kiss, for the Devil’s Food Cake and for other more heart racing reasons.
how very funny, though, i also just baked a chocolate cake last night and burnt my left hand in the process. despite the potholders, i think a baker also needs good hand-eye coordination, which apparently i don’t have. Jay, try making that old version of Chocolate Cake, the one where you add hot water in the end. Makes for moist and fudgy cakes, also done in less than an hour and a half. (Even less if you don’t have to soak your hand in cold water for the burn when you take it out of the oven, ouch!)
May 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
yummy chocolatey!!!
i was in a baking class in my junior and senior elective classes. devil’s food cake was very big on us then, makes me miss high school, if only for the baking classes. hehe
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 am
Wow. Ang sarap! May I have a slice please?
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 am
Ross
- The hot water chocolate cake is actually my favorite one, but I was tinatamad to measure stuff out. Ahehe. Stop burning yourself! (Use toothpaste!)
ms firefly
- Thanks for flitting by again! Ah yes, those cooking classes in high school were a lot of fun. I remember the cooking room would get sweltering hot, though, when we baked - kaya hanggang fried rice lang ata kami. Ahaha!
Toni
- There’s a fourth of the cake in the fridge pa! Please have a virtual slice. Or two, or three (like the real ones I had! Teehee.)
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Oh my! That looks delish!! Can I have some?
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
wow, this looks sooo good! i’m gonna get a box of cake mix too! hahahaha! i loved chocolate kiss’ choco cake too! i wonder if they are still open no? that seems like ages ago.
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 am
I think they still are open…
May 5th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Gracey
- I’d be happy to share a virtual piece with you! (I’ve had too much of the real thing, believe me!)
Caryn
- Hurray for cake mixes!
Mitz
- Naku. Masama na bukas pa sila. Kasi that means I’ll have to eat there the next time I’m home. Hehe.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Alam mo J, kahit pinakita mo pa yung box and mga props na yan, I still don’t believe you made that cake out of the cake mix.. HUMBLE! Asus!! Hahahaha! (you really have that incredibly twisted credibility, especially with baked items…eyeluvit!)
May 6th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Chocolate Kiss is part of me and my hubby’s all-time favorite resto list.
Your version looks (and I imagine, tastes too) as yummy as their Devil’s Food cake. Chocolate is love. 
May 6th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Nina d’ Lizard
- Serious confession ha, I really made that from the box, maniwala ka man o hindi! Hmph!
Jayme
- I have a tee that I love to sleep in - it has a Hershey’s chocolate bar in front and the words, “You never forget your first love.”