Chocolate Motherlode Cake

by Nicole Weston, Posted Jan 3rd 2006 @ 7:08AM

If you didn't indulge enough over the holidays, you might want to plan a dinner at a local Claim Jumper restaurant. The Southern California-based chain offers a dessert that will stop chocolate-lovers and cardiologists in their tacks: the Chocolate Motherlode Cake. Standing nearly 12-inchs high, the dessert is six layers of dense, rich chocolate cake slathered in thick, fudgy frosting studded with a generous number of walnuts. One slice of the cake, which is cut into 10 servings, weighs 3 pounds. Each year the company sells more than a quarter of a million slices of cake in its restaurants, while whole cakes are purchased for everything from office parties to weddings.

For anyone who is watching their calories in the new year, you may want to pass on this dessert. Claim Jumper doesn't offer the nutritional information for most of their foods, but they sell a 5-ounce version of their chocolate motherlode cake. Since the real thing is almost 10 times the size of the frozen one, assuming that they have the same or a similar recipe, a restaurant-sized slice of this dessert will have well over 4000 calories.

Filed Under: Ingredients, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: calories, chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate motherlode cake, claim jumper, ClaimJumper, decadent, dessert, indulgance, west coast

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1-03-2006 @1:51PM William said... That is one sexy cake (cake can be sexy, right?). Makes me wish I was a little further west than I am.

Here is another utterly porntastic shot of it for your viewing pleasure

http://www.azcentral.com/home/chocolate/gifs/0211hugecake.jpg
That is one sexy cake (cake can be sexy, right?). Makes me wish I was a little further west than I am.

Here is another utterly porntastic shot of it for your viewing pleasure

http://www.azcentral.com/home/chocolate/gifs/0211hugecake.jpg

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1-03-2006 @2:01PM William said... Yipe my comment got messed up.

Here is the link again. Sorry for the clutter.

http://www.azcentral.com/home/chocolate/gifs/0211hugecake.jpg
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1-03-2006 @4:37PM rainey said... My husband & I stopped at a Claim Jumpers one day when we were out doing Christmas shopping. The cake, just as described, was right there in a case below the cashier's station. You know what? That much of anything (and my particular concept of "too much" is waaaay past most people's thresholds) is really, really NOT appealing. This thing put me off.
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1-03-2006 @4:52PM Gina said... Oh... that is SUCH a great cake for chocolate lovers everywhere!! However,

it's not a one-person eat-a-thon. We've split it up between four family members for my birthday and we STILL could not finish it!!

Heh, also...good thing you showed only the one slice and not the WHOLE cake that CJ sells as well....ouuuuuuuuuuuu, baby!!!
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