It’s a little overcast today. The kids are home on vacation for the settimana bianca. My mom is visiting. My friend brought me buttermilk from France. I had a craving for chocolate. All of these are perfect excuses to make a good cake. I found this recipe on the joy of baking website and I tweaked it ever so slightly (adding half sour cream and half buttermilk). As always it’s really simple and the result so yummy. I made the mistake of asking the kids if they want a piece of coffee cake and they all bolted while making gagging noises. I guess they don’t understand that there’s no coffee in it. Oh well. All the more for us. 
And can I just talk for a second about the combination of cinnamon with chocolate? It’s just so…harmonious together. The cinnamon really deepens the richness of the dark chocolate I used. It gives it a little umph if you know what I mean. I had to google the spelling of umph. Get recipe here.
Jillian In Italy 
mamma mia.. droool! i was thinking of baking something tomorrow for my mother-in-law and got some dark chocolate and ohlalaa this looks real yum. too bad i ran out of farina “00”. eerr will try to make something else work. 😀 thanks for the link!
This looks beautiful!!!!
That looks wonderful. I think it;s funny that it doesn’t contain coffee :D. Great recipe, thanks for sharing.
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