It never fails....

I am never surprised by people's reaction to chocolate. Last week I made a Tunnel of Fudge cake. It was the richest chocolate cake I've ever tried to bake. I followed the recipe perfectly, but, for some reason, it came out really gooey in the middle. The idea was that you put the cake ingredients in a bundt pan and then bake it only for 50 minutes in the oven and then let it sit and bake on its own on the cooling rake for two more hours and then flip it out of the pan and cool again for another hour. I know, it was a highly technical endeavor for me, the cake mix queen. But, I thought the picture in the cookbook looked awesome. It had six eggs, two sticks of butter and so on and so on, my thighs are growing just thinking about it. The point was that it would be baked on the outside ring and gooey on the inner one. Well, I thought it was too gooey so, back into the oven it went for another 20 mins and then I quit with it and called it a disaster. But, I still had an entire cake, which when sliced would have fed twenty. I brought it in to work, and it was devoured inside of 15 minutes. "It was the best cake" they all had ever had! You've got to be kidding! There is no picture, there weren't even any crumbs! So, I guess I will keep it in the 'ol recipe box :)