hi all, i'll be doing the owl cake for my nephew's graduation next month and on the tutorial, Jackie suggests using a dense cake. my nephew loves chocolate so can anyone suggest a good chocolate or white chocolate cake recipe i could use? i heard nati's mud cakes are divine...would those be dense enough ya think?
thanks!!

HI there,
Yes, Nati's muds would be perfect for your sculpted cake. I use them for any shape I do! They are dense and delicious!
hope that helps

awesome, thank you! i can't wait to try it

What makes a cake a mud cake??? I keep reading about it. Where is this 'Nati' recipe? I didn't see it in the recipe section.
Thanks!

Here is a link to boonenati's recipe for Dark Chocolate Mudcake. Hope that's what you're looking for!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2107-3-Dark-Chocolate-Mudcake.html

Thanks! Now if I could only figure out the difference between 'regular' chocolate cake, Devil's food cake, and mud cake... Anyone know?

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well, I can try. I bake muds all the time and they use chocolate as well as cocoa in them and are very moist, as in "mud like" inside.. yum!
Normal chocolate cake is like a flavoured sponge cake and is fluffier and lighter than muds.
Devils food cake is more like a sponge, only quite rich and torted several times with cream in between layers.
I hope this helps!
I am a mud cake girl all the way!

Thanks Keira. I haven't made a mud cake before that I was aware of, but based on that description, I think I have! I have been using a Mrs. Field's Devil's Food cake recipe that uses both chocolate and cocoa powder and it is quite tasty and moist. I wonder if that would be considered a mud cake too then? I will have to try the recipe on this site the next time and compare.