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Mocha Volcano Cake

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I LAVA YOU!!!  *Cue Disney-Pixar's volcano love-story short film* And I so wanted to make you/us a really nice cake for our anniversary today! https://itsybitsykitchen.com/chocolate-mocha-cake/ Amidst child-rearing & housekeeping & home-educating & hospital-facilitating & everything else. Although I didn't find a legit cake board to put it on, there was a big enough paper plate Bfor the base cocoa/coffee layer. Then the first layer of creamy espresso filling, then the second chocolate cake layer, then another espresso-filling layer, then the final layer of chocolate cake, So far, so good. Next to start with the creamy chocolate espresso frosting - which was too stiff, so I stirred in some milk. But when I started frosting the cake, then the cake started falling apart. And then my 7-year-old started hollering questions and all kinds of stuff, and I'm just like "Please go play! I really need space to focus on saving this cake!" Eventually i