Double Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Buttercream

 

Our first post brought you the ultimate cheesecake recipe and our second post brings you...the ultimate Double Chocolate Cake! For those who love chocolate, this recipe brings intense chocolate flavor in the cake and seriously rich chocolate buttercream frosting. This is definitely not the recipe for anyone counting calories.

This recipe is not for the faint of heart, it's pretty complicated, but then again most "from scratch" recipes are. So, here goes...

Cheesecake

So, we have discussed starting a baking blog for at least a year now, but it never went any further than drunken musings of our confectionary adventures catapulting us into fame and fortune. Clearly that isn't going to happen, but we do like to bake and this blog gives us a reason to do it more often. While we have both independently baked a myriad of different desserts we are going to start with the basics and hone our "talent" into genuine "skill." Or we will develop diabetes and spend a lot of money to cover our kitchens with sugar and flour. Either way is cool.

As this is our first post we are going to start with the basics. After scouring the internet for recipes and reading hundreds of user reviews, we think we have come up with the best recipe and technique for making the perfect cheesecake. Oh yeah, this is just as presumptuous as it sounds. So here goes...