Essays from the kitchen: on cooking & life.
Mimi’s Chocolate Cake
Mimi’s Chocolate Cake was my great grandmother’s recipe and THE cake that was made for every birthday. In fact it may have been my great great grandmother’s recipe, but somehow the story changed (AS DID THE RECIPE, wait for it…). The origin was even argued upon a few times, leading up to my mom’s passing.
Family members competed…“Who makes it better?”We are still not sure who did, or does. We are all just happy to just have any version of the cake served to us, at any time. The light chocolate old fashioned dense-ish cake with the very sweet light chocolate sugary frosting was killer.