In response to Matt’s rapturous description of a chocolate cake Rose serves in Ireland, a reader asks for the cake recipe.

Matt responds:

While we were in Ireland, we did great research and found that the best place to buy a cake was in Union Hall, and it was baked by a local woman who made the greatest chocolate cake you’d ever want to eat.  It was even better than the old Sarah Lee chocolate cakes.  It had chocolate chips on top of it.  Whenever they’d get it in, we’d buy five of them.  We put four in the freezer and one in the refigerator.  Whenever anybody came over we’d pretend we were eating good Irish stew, but instead we’d drink tea and eat chocolate cake.

Some people assumed that Rose made it.  We never disguised it when it came out in the plastic carton with the label on it.

Now that we’re back in the United States, we long for that cake.  We had two of them in the freezer when we left.  We gave them to a great friend of ours who said he’d dole it out to himself in our memory.  We can’t wait to get back.  That’s one of the things we look forward to:  sitting around with our friends eating chocolate cake, knowing we’re not capable of making cake that good.  We have no idea what the recipe is, but if you get over to Ireland, we can give you a map of where to go to buy it. 

Matt