Has anyone ever heard of an Italian Love Cake?? I found a recipe online, but it is seriously in need of some help. I can see it being a really delicious cake with a few tweaks or if I had a better recipe! The one I have calls for a chocolate cake mix prepared as directed on box, then ricotta cheese mixed with eggs, sugar and vanilla poured on top of it and baked at 350 for a little over an hour. Then there's the topping: chocolate pudding mixed with 1 cup milk, then a container of coolwhip folded into it. You spread that over the whole cake once it's completely cool.

I'm hoping someone else has a better recipe for this...it could be really good! If not - I think I'll try using another chocolate layer cake recipe that's more chocolatey and keep the ricotta part the same, then change the pudding/cool whip topping some. Maybe this could work as a layered cake with the pudding type topping as a filling if it's a little more stable? Hmmmmm....at least it's got me thinking!

THere are a couple of recipe's that say you can also use marble cake mix. How about some liquor? It's Italian, so maybe some Amaretto? How about chocolate ganache instead of pudding and then real whipped cream instead of cool whip?

Ooohhh...love the ganache idea! I wonder if I should whip the ganache first before folding in the whipped cream? That'd be a lot of cream too...cream in the ganache and then more whipped and folded in! This will not be a calorie-conservative cake! I think I'll try my regular chocolate layer cake and add amaretto to one, then do another and add espresso to it...see which is better. Then I could cover it in more ganache!! Or chocolate IMBC? Hmmmmm.....

Oooh, espresso sounds good too!