Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV
To make this dessert more than a mere elegant centerpiece, we ditched the dull, dry cake and started over with the fudgiest, most deeply chocolaty foundation we could find.
SERVES 12 to 16 (Makes one 9-inch cake)
TIME 1½ hours, plus 1 hour cooling and 1 hour chilling