Your recipe doesn’t call for any eggs and I admit to being very doubtful but went through with it due to shortage of time and the easy ingredients (i.e. no Wondra, Belgian Dark Chocolate).

Did I mention my husband’s post is like 5 miles from the DMZ and the commissary has only the bare necessities? Speaking of hardships, I mixed the batter up using a plastic fork (no mixer!) on a coffee table that functioned as my “kitchen”. The cake layers were baked in square foil disposable baking pans and I had to walk down 3 flights of stairs with each cake pan to bake it in the communal kitchen of the dilapidated barracks.

The cake when it came out of the oven seemed rather dry and but I went ahead frosting and putting it together because I didn’t walk up and down 3 damn flights of stairs for nothing and hoped the battalion would to drunk to notice come dessert.

Thankfully, I was very wrong, the cake ended up being moist and perfectly delicious. I added 2 eggs to a triple recipe because what kind of self-respecting baker would I be if I didn’t mess with an already perfectly good recipe?

I made (using a rice cooker and microwave) a thick carmel drizzle which I spread between each layer with a sprinkle of sea salt and frosted the cake with a chocolate buttercream (and some sour cream because your recipe looked good and I had just a tiny bit of sour cream) frosting. The frosting job was rough as I only had a plastic knife to work with but I crunched up half a bag of pretzels and sprinkled/pressed them into the frosting at the last and drizzled the remaining carmel over it.

Despite the cake being square, the outcome was surprisingly elegant and appetizing. The cake was a hit and received many compliments. The moist dark chocolate cake was perfect with the frosting, carmel and pretzel “crust”. I was very surprised how well it came out.

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely chocolate cake recipe, I can personally attest that it is truly foolproof even with the most unforgiving baking equipment/kitchen. Your blog is lovely, I truly enjoy it and look forward to more of your wonderful recipes!