This would be an excellent cake for a coffee shop or traditional café. However, it comes just short of the expectations for the specialty chocolate café that is Artfully Chocolate Kingsbury Confections. The cake portion is slightly dry, just noticeably stale, and a bit light on flavor. Those small failings would still allow the cake to rank above average at most restaurants, even if paired with mediocre frosting.
This cake’s frosting ranks better among frostings than the cake portion does in its category. Its flavor is powerful enough to counterbalance the cake portion’s lack thereof. The frosting strikes a tasty balance of cocoa and sugar with a chewy texture. It’s applied to the cake in a perfect portion and presentation. The frosting redeems the overall dish.
I would order this cake without the whipped cream or chocolate sauce. Both elements always add just more than zero taste to a dish. They’re used almost purely for presentation; to create a visual impression of decadence. DCDesserts writers and readers are too smart for such visual trickery. The whipped cream might contaminate your cake with flat milky flavor. The chocolate sauce, that cheap, lazy stand-in for fudge sauce that’s left after you finish the cake, only serves to remind you how great the frosting was.
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