Chocolate Cake Better Than Mom’s
Every so often Huff Post falls in love with a new cake. There was the World’s Best Cake from Sweet Paul. There was Prantl’s Burnt Almond Torte from Pittsburgh. And now there’s a new cake in our lives: the chocolate layer cake from Sugaree’s Bakery in New Albany, Mississippi. Sugaree’s Bakery’s slogan is “reflections of a southern childhood” — a refrain that will unquestionably resonate after trying one of the bakery’s classic cakes, whether or not you grew up in the South. According to the bakery’s website, Sugaree’s celebrates traditional cooking from the Deep South. “Do you remember how sweets tasted when you were a kid?” the website asks. “Sugaree’s brings those memories to life every day.” It certainly does. What’s more, Sugaree’s is miraculously able to elicit childlike joy and conjure up childhood memories from across the country. The bakery sent a chocolate layer cake to our office in New York City, and having traveled, frozen, all the way from Mississippi, we weren’t necessarily expecting it to blow us away. How wrong we were.
