{"id":1385,"date":"2014-04-28T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T19:14:50","slug":"chocolate-cake-dessert-dinner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/chocolate-cake-dessert-dinner-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Cake for Dinner Party Dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After making chocolate cake for the first time, I wanted to step up and make a chocolate cake dessert for my dinner party.<\/p>\n<p>I used the same recipe and make 2 square cakes. (<a title=\"Cooking at Home: My First Chocolate Cake!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/cooking-at-home-my-first-chocolate-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Please see my recipe post here<\/a>.) I planned to make a dark chocolate ganache for the first one, and a white chocolate ganache for the 2nd one. But I made a mistake and used too much cream for my white chocolate  ganache. So I ended up serving the 2nd cake component a white chocolate sauce instead.<\/p>\n<p>I also served the first dark chocolate component with some fresh mango mousse, and the 2nd white chocolate component with a dark chocolate coated strawberry. The presentation could use a little more finesse, but I was happy about this first attempt on a slightly complicated chocolate dessert.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140428-173956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140428-173956.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Cake Duo, White Chocolate Sauce, Mango Mousse\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Cake Duo, White Chocolate Sauce, Mango Mousse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After making chocolate cake for the first time, I wanted to step up and make a chocolate cake dessert for my dinner party. I used the same recipe and make 2 square cakes. (Please see my recipe post here.) I planned to make a dark chocolate ganache for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[81,7,82],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140428-173956.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}