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In article <vJmdnSlK6O3aYKfcRVn-sw@comcast.com>,
Paul Green <pgreen @ comcast.net> wrote:
>Who makes a decent chocolate cake (with good chocolate icing) here in
>Northern Montgomery County? There used to be a fine, old-style bakery in
>Aspen Hill (not all that Northern, but doable), but it is long gone. I am
>tired of mediocre grocery store cakes, with their Crisco icing. I am shocked
>and horrified by some of the fancier bakeries, with their pretty cakes that
>taste as if they were made from sawdust. Someone once told me that the Giant
>Gourmet makes a decent cake, but that was back when there actually was a
>local grocery chain called "Giant" that actually baked its own stuff. Will I
>have to bake my own? What is a chocolate cake lover to do?

You MUST make the _Rombauer Special_ recipe from the Joy of Cooking.  It is
very simple and easy to make, and requires nothing more sophisticated than
a bowl and a spoon.  It is the best chocolate cake I ever put in my mouth.

>[While I know that most of this board's traffic has migrated to Chowhound,
>hope springs eternal.]

What is Chowhound?  Is it some kind of 'web thing?

>And if I may wax nostalgic for a second, I well recall walking into one of
>those old-style bakeries as a kid and almost going crazy over the wonderful
>aromas.  The Aspen Hill bakery (I can't even remember the name, except that
>I think it may have started with an "E"--it was next to the hardware store
>that no longer exists) was one of those.  I suppose the other question is
>will I do better just buying a cake mix, and whipping up some good icing
>(even Alton Brown concedes that it is hard to do better than a good mix
>cake)?

Who needs icing?  Just a little powdered sugar on top will be just fine.
--scott
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