People say this looks just like the cake from the movie Matilda. You won’t find a better chocolate cake recipe than this one. This should give you a taste and you can see our full video demo here.

When it comes to chocolate cake, there is a gold standard: the Trunchbull’s 18-inch-wide, ganache-topped wonder from Matilda. It’s dense, fudgy—the stuff of wonders—at least as it was depicted in the ...