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nchanting. Mesmerizing. These are some of the few words that

describe the new craze of 2012: the Triple Chocolate Cake. This cake, created by amateur pastry chef Yuriko Akino, had �rst attracted

the attention of neighborhood pastry lovers, and

soon, stories about its phenomenal ability to stimulate taste buds catalyzed virally over neighboring counties, neigh-boring states, and

eventually, the whole world. So how does

this ordinary looking cake have an extra-ordinary taste? Let us �nd out.One of the

most distin-guishing factors

of this cake is its chocolatey �avor.

One nibble of the delicacy, and you get

to enjoy four hours of an unfading, vibrant

chocolate savor. Those who have tasted this cake

have re�ected that it is quite like eating chocolate non-stop

for four consecutive hours. And the �avor is not even the type of chocolate that tastes overwhelmingly strong; it’s the type that is subtle, yet enchant-

ing. So how do we achieve this impressive chocolate

aroma? Ms Yuriko Akino, the maker of

the triple choco-late cake, has agreed to reveal some of the i n t r i g u i n g secrets of the

cake. “There are

these special kinds of cacao beans that grow in a

remote part of Ghana,” says Akino, “I used these cacao beans to experiment with the �avor. Now, these beans are incredibly di�cult to work with. The �rst ten trials produce results that were entirely unsatisfactory. The chocolate �avor was bitter, and too coarse. On my eleventh try, I succeeded. With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, I created the everlasting, subtle �avor that exudes from my Triple Chocolate Cake.” Like Akino said, these special cacao beans are indeed incredibly hard to work with. In its natural form, these beans are so bitter that it is almost humanely impossible to eat. However, there is one character-istic that is useful to work with: the longevity of �avor. No matter how bitter the beans are, the �avor lasts for a long time. So if manipulated expertly it is possible to create a rich, everlasting chocolate �avor. Evidently, the expert manipulation of these special cacao beans is the key to creat-ing the mesmerizing Triple Chocolate Cake.

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CakeBy Sungbin Heo

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