Tip 5: Chocolate Cake

I (like most women I know) love chocolate, especially good chocolate cake. The first year that I was married, I experimented with adding coffee instead of water to a chocolate cake mix. I discovered that it really added an extra level of moisture and richness to the cake.

Then, while watching Throwdown on Food Network a couple of weeks ago, one of Bobby Flay's assistants did the same thing (substituting coffee for water in a cake). I was very excited to see that something I came up with on my own was something that professional chefs have been doing for year:)