Fear of Baking? This Very Easy, Really Good Cake Recipe Can Help

This Absurdly Easy, Very Good, Not Overly Large Chocolate Cake That Is Also Vegan Depending on the Candy You Deploy will make you believe in your baking skills. Bethany Jean Clement/The Seattle Times/TNS

By Bethany Jean Clement From The Seattle Times

Seattle—I was making my own birthday cake. Why was this happening?! It was so very clearly wrong. One should never make one’s own birthday cake; it should arrive by the magic that is love, floating through the air with candles glowing, accompanied by a song sung in one’s honor. This was axiomatic. Also, it was hot—my birthday is in August—and the apartment was getting even hotter, despite all the windows thrown wide open, as the ancient Magic Chef electric stove cranked up.