There are rainy gloomy low-energy days when the best thing you can do at 3pm is stop pretending that anything short of chocolate cake will improve your outlook. Tuesday was one of those days and what a blessing it was a rainy Tuesday with chocolate cake.
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The 'I Want Chocolate Cake' Cake | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman
But before that I really tried to tell you about soup soup with whole grains and seasonal onions and floating croutons of tangy cheese. I really tried. But I discovered that the same circumstances that led to the need for a hearty soup on a Monday night in May—a gray day when my brain was a little fried from a week at the beach and adjusting to real life—also made it impossible to talk about soup in any articulate way on a Tuesday. And so I made chocolate cake instead. If this site had a subtitle that would be it.
The cake is from the kind of book you want to grab from your bookshelf on a damp dimly lit day. I bought it for the cover alone but it was also nice that it came from the chef/photographer/writer behind one of the most beautiful sites around. Gluten free and market fresh but not to fool you. Page after page is filled with bits and pieces of a life of delicious food with photos so beautiful they're lit from within.
The cake itself met several unspoken Tuesday afternoon requirements: it wasn’t too sweet or too intense (it’s not molten or knife-stinging in a way that demands you wash it down with a gulp of milk) but it was eminently chocolaty it went well with a much-needed 4pm black coffee and it was interesting with a hint of nuttiness from the tiniest bit of buckwheat flour and ground almonds. I know “interesting” seems like an understatement but it’s really nice to have something to think about every now and then something to contemplate aside from the endless to-do lists tantrums and urgencies of daily life. In fact it might be the whole reason cake exists.
