— Char Nolan

Yeah, the berry berries are not going to give much of a flavor. I would macerate the BA berries with a little bit of maple syrup and maybe put them on top of the cake, but especially this time of the year, citrus blood orange or orange or anything like that would be absolutely delicious. So the cake that Char is referring to my chocolate cake to live for was my breakthrough cake, uh, all those years ago when I left the traditional baking kitchen and decided that it was time to create some modern vegan recipes that would work. And the very first cake that had my tasters jumping around was this particular chocolate cake, which they dubbed the chocolate cake to live for. So there is the original version, and then I created, I have a gluten-free version in my cookbook as well, but I was lucky enough to be invited by Rip Esselstyn to make his wedding cakes. And so if you're familiar with the essel sinces, that is SOS no, no salt oil or sugar. Well, I did have to use some sweetener in the cake, but I did a no oil version and it was a prototype. It was just so much fun and it was delicious. So it's different. It's a little denser, a little fgi, but it's really good still.