It Was Once America's Favorite Cake. Why Is It Now Impossible to Bake?
Briefly

"The Tunnel of Fudge, which won Mrs. C. J. Helfrich of Houston, Texas, second prize in the Pillsbury Bake-Off in 1966, seems to have introduced the concept of a soft-centered chocolate cake to the world."
"For a time in the late '60s, you couldn't attend a PTA potluck without finding a Tunnel of Fudge. But when I took a shot at baking the cake..."
"The Tunnel of Fudge is, basically, an engineering problem: How do you hold up that roof when there's nothing solid underneath?"
Read at Slate Magazine
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