Chocolate-Caramel Layer Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2015, America's Test Kitchen TV

The cake and frosting we weren’t worried about. But a caramel filling that was complex in flavor and spreadable, yet thick enough not to ooze out? That was another matter.

SERVES12

TIME2 hours, plus 7 hours cooling and resting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Many chocolate-caramel cakes barely contain enough caramel flavor to merit the name. To ensure caramel flavor in each bite, we sandwich three layers of thick but spreadable caramel filling between layers of deep, dark, moist chocolate cake....

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