No more desserts to conquer?

Gooey goodness, years in the making…

As a kid, I was obsessed with two desserts.

One was “tunnel of fudge” cake. I first saw this on the old Steve Allen Show. A woman in the studio audience baked one for Allen, who delightedly cut it up and ate it on TV. I didn’t know what it was exactly, but cake and fudge juxtaposed with tunnel told me it had to be good.

The other one was upside down cake. I remember learning about it from a school reader in grade four or five. Again, I didn’t know what it was...