• Baking Recipes,  Simple cakes

    A simple chocolate and beer celebration cake

    Today is my Mother’s birthday and here I am in Japan with my Dad. I’m feeling kind of guilty about missing her birthday so I thought I’d write a blog post about her plus this cake that reminds me of her a lot– No-frills on the outside, but packing a punch on the inside. Don’t let this cake’s simplicity fool you. It actually has magic powers. My Mother eats anything that’s chocolate but she is a big fan of fudgy brownies, and the thing with this cake is that it turns into this fudge-like cake once refrigerated. As in if you cut it thin enough it’s a surprising melt-in-your-mouth fudgy.…