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To celebrate a friends bday today, we wanted to get a cake. We asked her what cake she wanted. She said chocolate cake and then strawberry cake. My daughter awaiting her sister, said she'll get a baby cake. At Albertson's today, my husband got a 'seasonal baby cake', made with hersheys chocolate with chocolate whipped icing. Heaven!

Chocolate cake   Some girls in California, got lucky during tea time with this awesome looking cake.

Beattys chocolate cake  is very porous and reminds me of the first cake I had in US at ASU's welcome party.  Laura  has identified that reducing the leavening does not let the cake sink. I keep promising myself that I wont make a cake that calls for boiled water or coffee but end up making it in a rush to make a deadline cake. I was very taken by  Bienmesabe cake .  Bienmesabe is very similar to  Badam ki jaali which is made from almonds.