Chocolate & Caramel-Passion Cake

This cake and I go way back to when I first arrived in Shanghai. I was coaching my Westin Bund Center pastry team for a competition, trying to create something ass-kicking for the chocolate cake category. We made a cake with chocolate mousse and crunchy praline, which was good but incomplete. So, I layered a caramel-passion fruit filling into the cake, transforming it into something truly delightful. Competition day arriv