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Article: For Chocolate Cake Lovers, Sweet Dreams May Be Just Around the Corner
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 6, 2003
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Chocolate. Just the word brings a smile to my face.
I'm the one who always orders whatever chocolate is on a dessert
menu, ever in search of the perfect molten chocolate cake or the
ultimate flourless chocolate cake. I even had a dark chocolate cake
with dark chocolate icing for my wedding.
I also believe, like the Europeans, that baking is an art best
left to professionals. Yet sometimes those desserts look pretty but
don't taste good. That should never happen, especially on Valentine's
Day, the quintessential chocolate dessert day.
The desserts I've described here taste at least as good as they
look. I know, because I've taste-tested every one, and several
colleagues who also tasted them ...