My mom is a very open person, and always willing to share. Not only is she generous with her advice, but she will teach you anything that she knows. She is always willing to explain sewing, cooking, or advanced mathematics. There is one thing, however, that she guards jealously. It is her greatest secret, and one that she has sworn she will carry to the grave. It is her chocolate cake recipe. We have been trying to get it from her for years, and have so far been unsuccessful.
This isn’t some normal chocolate mix cake recipe. This is seriously gourmet. It isn’t an easy chocolate cake recipe, either. Chocolate cake is usually pretty easy to make, but hers takes all day and all night. She is literally in there for 16 hours at a time, slaving away on the perfect chocolate cake. But it is perfect. It is priceless. It is the most delicious thing that I have ever tasted. I would do anything to get that chocolate cake recipe.
The thing is, my mom isn’t all that into chocolate in general. She never makes chocolate brownies. She won’t even order a chocolate brownie when she goes out. But that chocolate cake recipe is her favorite thing in the world. She cooks it every holiday, and every holiday we ask for more. No one ever gets sick of it. Even my cousins, strict vegetarians who will only eat vegan chocolate cake recipes normally, will make an exception for her delicious chocolate cake. It really is that good.
The really sad thing is that, since I first tasted that chocolate cake recipe, I can’t eat any other kind of chocolate desert. Even the best German chocolate cake recipe leaves me flat. Part of it is that my mom baked it. She spends so much time on it, and clearly wants us to like it so much, that it is hard to resist. I don’t know if I would like it quite as much if it weren’t she that made it, but nonetheless I would love it still. She has, after all, won several cooking contests with her chocolate cake recipe. She has only entered a handful of times, but every time she has entered the same recipe, and every time she has won. I have tried sneaking into the kitchen, but it was no use. She simply refused to go on cooking until I left. I hope she will share the recipe with us one day.
my mom’s chocolate cake recipe
