This Ultra-Decadent Chocolate Cake Is Perfect for Your Valentine (Or Just for You)

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This Ultra-Decadent Chocolate Cake Is Perfect for Your Valentine (Or Just for You)

We're talking layers of chocolate cake and chocolate mousse forming a sky-high confection that sits on a chocolate wafer crust.

Look: Say what you will about Valentine's Day. That it's a consumerist shitshow that uses our powerlessness against the effects of oxytocin to convince us to buy polyester-filled stuffed animals that were stitched together by child slaves in Malaysia. That it's a greeting card company orgy that demeans the eternally lonely. That it's like an even shittier version of New Year's Eve where our expectations are high and our likelihood of meeting them is pitifully low.

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That's all fine and good, and some if it might even be correct. But no matter what, that doesn't change the reality that we should all be eating a shitload of chocolate today, whether it's in the context of hand-feeding bae or rolling our eyes at all of this hullabaloo.

This wildly rich dessert tastes better than human companionship, anyway. We're talking layers of chocolate cake and chocolate mousse forming a sky-high confection that sits on a chocolate wafer crust. This is not for the meek.

RECIPE: Not Your Mama's Chocolate Cake

Now we can promise you'll make it out of Valentine's Day alive, whether you've got a sweetheart or just a sweet thing to eat.