Why I’ll never stop baking mom’s groovy chocolate cake:
“Want to go to Dairy Queen?” she was known to throw out there on particularly long road trips, combing her thick black hair with her left hand and guiding the car’s steering wheel with her right.We’d fly off the highway onto the service road, then pull up to the nearest drive-through and order what I thought for many years was the only thing on the menu: dipped cones as long as my arm, with smooth vanilla ice cream painted in a thin chocolate shell.
But the highest prizes were the ones my mother baked herself, usually on someone’s birthday or if you begged long and hard enough:Her top-two recipes—big surprise—both involved chocolate. The first was L.B.J. Chocolate Cake, a pound cake from my great-grandmother’s day that was sweet and satisfying. The other was her renownedthat she bought in the 1970s, probably in Berkeley. A riff on Texas sheet cake, Groovy Chocolate Cake defined my childhood more than any cone or cupcake.
The magic lies in its simplicity—along with sour cream, which makes it super moist. That secret ingredient is folded into the batter, along with a cup of hot water. After it cooled, my mom would top it with a simple chocolate buttercream frosting made with a splash of rum extract.
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