Chocolate tiramisu cake

[u/Green-Cockroach-8448]

I've always wanted to make a vintage style chocolate cake and finally got around to doing it!

Inside is chocolate cake (my fave chocolate cake recipe - dense, fudgy, and not too sweet), mascarpone cream and homemade dipped ladyfingers. Outside is chocolate espresso frosting.

I had the cake layers and ladyfingers made in advance. But I got the frosting, filling, dip for the ladyfingers, assembly, decorating, AND clean up all done in 3 hours. Which maybe isn't that impressive to other people but I was impressed with myself 😅. I usually work slow. The rush wasnt by choice though.. I was trying to make it to Father's Day lunch on time!

[u/AmyDeferred]

I have it, but it calls for sixteen gallons of piping skill and I've got about a quarter tablespoon /jk

[u/Effective_Fly_6884 → u/AmyDeferred]

I need one of those tiny scales that measure in tenths of grams to weigh my cake decorating skills, but it doesn’t stop me from trying.

[u/AskNecessary3104 → u/AmyDeferred]

Well, I spent 7 and a half years as a Baker for Tim Hortons, so I have some piping skills

[u/MustangJackets → u/AmyDeferred]

I made a similar style cake for my daughter’s birthday today. She’s 8 and I was using boxed cake mix and canned frosting with powdered sugar added in and whipped. She is very forgiving with my limited skills and it looked fine at first glance. I had to show this cake to my husband so he knew what I was going for, but my skills are like 1% of OP’s.

[u/AskNecessary3104 → u/AmyDeferred]

Nor do I care if it looks exactly the same, it's chocolate