The Most Famous Cake in Texas Has Changed

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Earlier this year, I placed a call to the Driskill Hotel, in Austin. My daughter’s birthday was approaching, and I was in the market for a cake. The front desk woman on the other end of the telephone told me it would be possible for me to order a cake, but I’d need to speak to someone at the hotel’s 1886 Café & Bakery once it opened the next day. Casually, she mentioned the cake’s recipe had recently changed. “What?!?! That cake is the Platonic chocolate-cake ideal of all chocolate cakes,” I declared, fumbling my words. “It’s the best chocolate cake I’ve ever eaten!” (I don’t…

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