Today is Chocolate Cake Day

How are you celebrating this holiest of holidays?

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Carnie
• Thanks for the tip, OP. Having dinner tonight with friends. Now I know what to choose for dessert.

• 3 cups sugar 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch process) 2 teaspoons baking soda 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/4 teaspoons salt 3 large eggs 3/4 cup vegetable oil 1 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk 3/4 teaspoon vanilla For ganache frosting 1 pound fine-quality semisweet chocolate such as Callebaut 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons light corn syrup 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter

• Buttermilk is the BEST when making chocolate cake! Thanks, R2!

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• I love "real" chocolate cake. No one I know appreciates it as much as I do. Luckily, I can never find them in the store, I refuse to spend $$ at a bakery, and I'm too lazy to bake.

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• Why, I dashed out to Kroger and bought a prefab chocolate fudge cak, of course. I'm a tool for these marketing dept. driven holidays, aren't I?

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• It is also Holocaust Remembrance Day. Enjoy!

• Martha Stewart marble cake topped with chocolate sauce and Graetner vanilla ice cream.

• Nigella Lawson's divine Chocolate Guinness cake.

  http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-nigella-lawsons-chocola-79475

• I ate a big chunk of dark chocolate today. Dark chocholate is the best.

• OP knows many of us are dieting. This is typical passive aggressive hate crime behavior!

• Isn't everyday chocolate cake day?!

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