Black forest cake
Cakes
I started calling this cake the "Sloppy Drunk Cake" shortly after I started making it. Because whoowhee, that's a heck of a lot of booze in one little 6" layer cake. But the term sloppy drunk took on a whole new meaning when I attempted to garnish the thing with chocolate curls. What you can't see here is the backside of the cake, when I got frustrated and starting throwing the chocolate shards against the side of the cake, hoping they'd stick. They didn't. There was chocolate everywhere. Not to mention what a mess it was to slice. The whipped cream doesn't have much structure—neither does the cake for that matter—and it practically collapsed under the weight of the knife. Squish. Sorry folks, no perfectly pretty cake slice for this photo op. After three test slices I gave up and decide to embrace the ugly. Sloppy drunk indeed. While this cake is no where near as successful, or as delicious, as some of the others I've made, it was different. Light. Boozey. Fruity. The cake itself was
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