"It's no surprise that anyone would want Garten cooking their last meal, but the simplicity of De Laurentiis' menu is shocking. "She makes this chocolate espresso cake with this special sea salt, and there's caramel in it too. Espresso, caramel, and chocolate. It has that perfect combination of sweet-salt smooth, sticky but rich, fudgy kind of flavor. That would be my last meal. That's all I would want," she said. But that's not the only one of Ina Garten's chocolate cakes that De Laurentiis loves."
"The two chefs collaborated on an episode of Ina Garten's show, "Barefoot Contessa," where De Laurentiis taught Garten how to make gnocchi. In return Garten - who said she could tell De Laurentiis was a chocolate person - made a flourless chocolate cake with the blackcurrant liqueur, cassis. As good as that sounds, that espresso cake of Garten's must be something really special."
Giada De Laurentiis would choose Ina Garten to prepare a chocolate espresso cake with special sea salt and caramel as her last meal. The cake pairs espresso, caramel, and chocolate for a sweet-salt, smooth, sticky yet rich and fudgy flavor. De Laurentiis and Garten collaborated on an episode of Barefoot Contessa where De Laurentiis taught Garten to make gnocchi and Garten returned the favor with a flourless chocolate cake flavored with cassis. De Laurentiis spent 21 years at the Food Network, trained at Le Cordon Bleu, and worked as pastry chef at Spago.
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