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Cake 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1/3 cup water 4 1/2 ounces dark melted chocolate 4 1/2 ounces melted butter 1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar 1 cup ground almonds 4 eggs 2 packets of raspberries Chocolate Whipped Cream 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup sugar 3 ounces melted dark chocolate Ganache 6 1/2 ounces dark chocolate 1/3 cup heavy cream Preheat oven to 325F.  Grease 9 inch round cake pan, set aside. Blend sifted cocoa powder with water until smooth; stir in chocolate, butter, sugar, ground almonds, and egg yolks. Beat egg whites in small bowl until soft peaks form, then fold into chocolate mixture. Pour mixture in pan.   Bake 1 hour and 25 minutes. Make chocolate whipped cream by blending heavy cream on high and adding sugar.  Once cream starts to come up add melted chocolate and continue whipping.  Cover and set aside in fridge. Make ganache by heating heavy cream over low heat on stove until it starts to boil, then pour over c...

Back in October I made my first ever pull apart cake in the shape of a football for my little brother Noah's sixteenth birthday.  This "cake" was very easy to make.  I used regular-sized cupcakes pushed together to get the "boat" like shape of the football, and I didn't have to cut any of the cupcakes, they were all left alone, full-sized.   After the unfrosted cupcakes were in the football shape, I just frosted over them all and decorated the best I could.  What was nice about this pull-apart cake was there was no actual cutting of the cake itself.  If someone wanted a piece they would just pull out one of the cupcakes from underneath and for the most part, it came off as a whole.  It wasn't too messy or anything, but there was a lot of extra frosting, but I personally never complain about more frosting.   I don't have the recipe to post that I used, it was just a simple chocolate cake and chocolate frosting recipe.  I replaced ...