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Hot Chocolate Cake #CakeSliceBakers

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 When I saw that this cake was one of October's choices, I knew I would have to make it. This cake appears on the cover of Zoe Bakes Cakes , and my children have been asking me to make it since the book first appeared in our house almost a year ago. Layers of chocolate cake with a cooked chocolate frosting, topped with homemade, toasted marshmallows, this cake is pretty tasty. I cook book provides instructions in the back for making marshmallows. It was easier than I imagined, and I plan to make them again. There were plenty leftover that we floated in cups of hot chocolate later in the week. The recipe says to toast them using your kitchen torch or over a fire, but I don't own a kitchen torch and cooking over a fire seemed a little risky for me, so I just piled them up on top of the cake untoasted. Besides, we don't toast them before we put them in our cups of hot chocolate. The cake itself had a nice chocolate taste - not too sweet or too bitter. It was also moist. The fr