National Chocolate Cake Day

It's Friday!! Yay!!!! I am very excited, mostly because it means I can finally sleep in tomorrow morning. : D.

Anyhow, this evening as I was procrastinating studying for my physiology exam (which just so happens to be on Monday at 8am...), I discovered this wonderful article on CNN.com proclaiming that today is national chocolate cake day. I happen to be in that majority category for people who love cake. Especially chocolate cake! So does my vet school roomie. Upon this discovery, we immediately set to work trying to figure out how we were going to procure chocolate cake for this lovely holiday. The only thing we really needed was cocoa powder, because we already have an awesome stockpile of other miscellaneous baking supplies. Unfortunately, it would have been far to lengthy and time consuming to go all the way to the grocery store (it was 7:30p at that point and with unreliable buses...eh). Fortunately, there happens to be a tiny convenience store on campus. Knowing it was a long shot but keeping our fingers crossed anyway, we came down off our mountain in hopes that cocoa powder could be found at this little store.

Well, they didn't have cocoa powder, but they did have a chocolate cake mix! Even better! They didn't happen to have frosting, but we figured we could figure something out with a good Google search (still lacking in the chocolate department and no confectioners sugar). We decided for good measure to puchase a couple of milk chocolate bars in case we could melt and use them.

The cake making went well. Keeping with tradition, I made a nice sturdy pan our of aluminum foil for the toaster oven. It baked pretty well (the top burned a little just because of the small space, but nothing we couldn't shave off). Vet school roomie found a recipe online for buttercream frosting and we decided to give it a shot. It actually turned out pretty well!

So that is the story of how I ended up with DELICIOUS chocolate cake on national chocolate cake day. Turns out, every day of the year is a food holiday-http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm. Kinda cool! Med school roomie hovered during the entire baking process as she was fascinated by the art of baking a cake. Apparently she's not had much kitchen exposure in her life time and is very excited to learn about it all this semester.

So, it's not the prettiest cake ever. But it was made in a foil pan, in a toaster oven, in a third world country. So cut us a little slack haha. It's also two pieces, as we couldn't get all of the batter into one pan. The second one was a mini loaf pan we have, we just decided to stick them together for storage purposes. On top is milk chocolate shavings. This was an excellent cake. Extremely moist, just as the box promised. Although I've never heard of the brand before (Promos), I look forward to eating the rest of this cake and buying more of their mixes in the future!!