Melissa’s Chocolate Pecan Cake

I first heard about this rich cake from my friend Gary Peese, an inveterate traveler. He had tasted the cake in Cape Town and was intrigued by it. Sol sent my deputy cake sleuth, my friend Kyra Effren, to Melissa’s, a lovely prepared food store a little outside the center of Cape Town. Unfortunately, neither Gary nor Kyra was able to extract the recipe from the store, so I made i