Demonically Chocolate Cake (Part 4) - Putting It All Together

My brother contacted me a month or so ago and told me he wanted me to make him a cake for his birthday. Typically, he gives me a challenge when he wants me to make his cake and this year was no different. The challenge was to bake a "demon chocolate cake."

The slice of cake we took to my Grandmama Morton

I made 2 9-inch chocolate cake layers. I let them sit overnight so that they would be firmer. I filled the layers with half a recipe of chocolate mousse filling and frosted it with half a recipe of chocolate frosting.

In the future, I would advise chilling the cake layers and mousse together before frosting them. It was very hot both outside and in the house yesterday and the mousse was so soft, when I frosted over it it mixed with the frosting and didn't make for a very pretty cake once it was all together.

The taste, however, was perfect. The layers were moist and dense. The mousse was the perfect consistency and the icing was dark and fudgy. This is an extremely rich cake and even I, the Queen of the Sweet Tooth, could only eat a small piece before going into chocolate overload.