TWD - I love this little devil! Devil's Food White Out Cake

As much as I felt stranded on last week's Islands, I adored this week's recipe. It was chosen by Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater, and was Dorie's famous Devils' Food White-Out Cake. It is famous because it is the glamourous "cover girl" of Baking - From My Home to Yours, and because, somewhat surprisingly, no-one had previously chosen it in the 12 months plus of Tuesdays with Dorie.

This cake exceeded my wildest expectations - I am so glad that I made it for a colleague's birthday, otherwise I may have demolished it all by myself. I also had the best time making it - despite some initial apprehension at once again making a "cooked" frosting, it came up trumps.

The Devil's Food component of the cake consisted of 4 layers of the fudgiest, most chocolatey cake known to mankind:



three of which are then sandwiched together with generous lashings of fluffy marshmallow frosting:

before the cake is smothered in the remaining frosting:

and then - OMG - the fourth cake layer is deliberately crumbled (which initially went against every bone in my body), and used to coat the outside of the cake.

I tasted the scraps of crumbled cake and leftover frosting - and had to promptly put the remainder in the garbage, because they were so good that I was going to single-handedly eat my way into the next series of The Biggest Loser by hoovering them up. I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not - this stuff was crack cake for my soul. It was also fun to make, because it was like being a kid again, plootching in the frosting and cake crumbs to decorate the cake. I actually laughed while I was doing it, it was so much fun.

Here is my rather unglamorous looking slice to give you the "inside" picture (you gotta make allowances for the fact that at work, nothing can be served in a pretty manner):

You can find the recipe in Dorie's book, or on Stephanie's site. You may also want to slaver madly by looking at everyone else's version of this cake at the TWD blogroll.