Mountain Meadow Chocolate Fudge Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    15

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth

By Jill O'Connor

Published 2007

  • About

I got my first paying job as a cook the summer after my sophomore year in college, when I became the lunch cook at Mountain Meadow Ranch, a rustic mountain retreat owned and run by a group of family friends in the Trinity Alps of California. Along with preparing lunch, I was also responsible for desserts. Vicki Villarreal, our very laid-back, very trusting kitchen manager, gave me lots of freedom to be creative and try new recipes, but one of everyone’s favorites was a recipe Vicki handed d