Few things are as indulgent as a delicious, rich chocolate cake! And if Nigella Lawson’s making it then you know it’s going to be all three!
In the video above, Nigella makes her Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake using standard ingredients – flour, sugar, eggs, cocoa, etc – with the addition of 2/3 cup of sour cream. I love chocolate and sour cream, if it’s done right, and I suspect this gives the cake a perfect tang.
She also makes a chocolate frosting to go on the cake out of melted chocolate, powdered sugar, corn syrup, and more sour cream.
I miss seeing Nigella …read more

All day tomorrow, Cheesecake Factory restaurants across the US will be offering up slices of their yummy cheesecake for only $1.50 each for their 30th Anniversary Celebration and for National Cheesecake Day!
In addition to that, a limited edition cheesecake, the 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake, will be unveiled and $0.25 from the sale of each slice sold this year will benefit the national hunger-relief organization, America’s Second Harvest.
If you don’t live near a Cheesecake Factory, making cheesecake yourself is not hard! The video above features Nigella Lawson making her “Chocolate Heaven Cheesecake,” and you know what, I’m going to have …read more