What brings you to bake/cook one recipe? Do you get stuck making the same things over and over?  Talk yourself into being intimidated by new and untried techniques?  I think that sometimes I need a little extra nudge so that I try new things.  To stretch myself, last month I joined a little group that is loosely calling themselves at this date The Daring Bakers.

I should tell you, this cake is one I would never, never in a million years have contemplated making left to my own devices.  And I may never make this again until I have at least 20 chocoholics in the house.   When somebody uses the word intensity, I don’t usually put too much emphasis on it.  But, please be advised when you see intensity in the title of this cake it doesn’t mean intense chocolate flavor it means

INTENSE CHOCOLATE FLAVOR LIKE NO OTHER

CHOCOLATE INTENSITY CAKE IS CHOCOLATE

Now have I made myself really clear here?  This is chocolate CHOCOLATE.

Oh, and I need for you to understand this is like...really

RICH INTENSE CHOCOLATE FLAVOR

Well surely you understand now but just let me relate this story of my serving this cake.  We had a neighbor couple over for dinner.  I cut four small (maybe an inch wide at the outside end edge) pieces.  Both the men ask: Why such a small piece?  I told them they could both cut their own next piece as large as they wanted.  The men did have two pieces each but they chose to cut second pieces no bigger than the first.  The other woman managed to eat her entire piece.  I managed only half mine, the big half mind you but only half.

This is soooooooooooo good in the mouth.  This cake defines smooth.  It defines chocolate.  The only thing wrong with this cake is you can’t eat anymore.  Boom, a bite or two and I’m done.  It doesn’t leave me wanting more. 

The recipe is from Tish Boyle’s The Cake Book and I followed the recipe as directed except I used brown sugar instead of white.  With 8 ounces of Scharffen Berger Bittersweet 70% Chocolate ( I couldn’t fine any 62%), 3 sticks of butter, a cup of brown sugar and 6 large eggs, I certainly wasn’t tempted to add extra anything to this.

My other partners in this crime are to be found:

here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here

Their posts on this cake are either up or will be shortly.

Here’s to insane chocolate overdose of death by chocolate!