I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to make a friend’s wedding cake. So – a cake that was never meant to be blogged is here today simply because I made too much food (aaaand we’re right back to doing things in excess). Sweet chocolate produces cakes sweeter and with a milder chocolate flavor than unsweetened chocolate. As a kid, it’s so easy to obsessively want something and damn the consequences.
I suggest if you are going to stick chocolate fingers around the side in the Auckland heat to use a buttercream icing instead – better to be on the safer side! I have no doubt that your recipe is going to be better (your tastebuds seem to run along the same lines as mine!) but it would be interesting to me to actually make both and see how much a small difference could make.
Probably would have been …