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When it comes to birthday cakes, I’m traditionally into sweet, icy cakes in the shape of Disney characters, and I’m not swayed by such requests, but my dad, a dark chocolate lover, asked me to bake a cake for a lavish birthday luncheon, which called for another level of sophistication.
There are great recipes for flourless dark chocolate cakes. But without flour, the cake has very little structure, so it’s not a good choice for a celebration cake that needs to look fancy and have enough layers to feed a crowd. Instead, I make a standard chocolate cake…
