Garten explained in her cookbook Cook Like a Pro: Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks how she came to decorate her chocolate ganache cake and it dates back to the days of owning a specialty food store.

There are tons of olive oil cake recipes online (this side-by-side comparison is a great cheat sheet, if you’re curious), but I knew I wanted to create something that was more “cake” than “olive oil” ...

Molly Yeh is a food blogger and cookbook author who has contributed numerous recipes to Food & Wine and is the host of the Food Network show Girl Meets Farm. Freezing the cake layers for at least an ...