Shortening is essential in some recipes — it makes super fluffy salted caramel buttercream, it makes mint
chocolate chip cookies
ridiculously chewy, and ombre cakes ethereally
soft.
The cake itself is a perfectly
soft, moist
chocolate cake which also happens to be
ridiculously easy to make, you just mix some cocoa powder with hot water then chuck all of the other ingredients into the same bowl at once and whisk until smooth.