Grandma ruth's fudgy chocolate cake (that i could not resist altering)
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Recently, I inherited a battered recipe card holder with 2 bundles of index cards covered with splatters, bent, and smudged. They are the combined recipe boxes of both of my grandmothers. While both were fabulous cooks, my mother's mother (Grandma Ruth) reigned as baker supreme. I remember my grandmother making this cake when we would visit her in Ohio. She told us she made it for us but secretly I think she made it especially for herself (a committed chocaholic) and my grandfather, a lover of anything resembling dessert. In later years she made it for my cousin's husband Kyle. She typically served it plain with a glass of milk or coffee or my favorite, with a scoop (or 4) of Cincinatti's own Graeter's ice cream. I confess, I did do some tinkering with the recipe and swapped the coffee for really strong chai tea, using darker chocolate, decreasing some of the sugar and adding some vanilla.
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