Anything with coffee gets me going. Add chocolate and you are tapping a high density of dopamine… Combine these two ingredients with Guinness, butter, and sugar to create an Octo-choco cake …Well then you are asking for a late night Twin Peaks marathon.

I can’t shut up about this cake. First, I am no not a baker, nor am I a “chocolate cake guy”, especially not in the sense that our favorite Polish-American roommate is (let me stress the Polish here…the dude keeps a jar of nutella under his pillow). That said, take a Chinese-American who dedicated a childhood to obsessively studying cake decorating and let her go sick on a pound of chocolate and you start to understand my obsession.

About all I can say for my contribution here is the outstanding coffee ( Alegra Sumatra medium-roast), Uta takes the cake here. Enjoy the pictures, and remember I got to eat this beauty.