monkeys and ponies

I'm not the world's biggest date fan, but when Tasteologie sent a tweet today about chocolate date cake, I suddenly realized that was exactly what I wanted to eat. Unfortunately, I still had to make it before I could eat it, and equally unfortunately, the recipe Tasteologie linked to required mini-bundt pans, which I don't have. (I don't even have a regular-size bundt pan, but I'll get around to buying one of those someday.)

Anyway, Google led me to this chocolate date cake instead, and next thing I knew, I was defrosting butter and slicing up the leftover dates from Passover's charoset. An hour and a half later, I had delicious-smelling date cake, which I have just now eaten and determined that you know, dates aren't bad at all. The cake is rich and moist, and though it doesn't taste terribly strongly of dates, they lend a sweetness and depth to the cake it wouldn't have otherwise. I might even be willing to keep the little guys on hand more often now.