The Bookless Club: Birthday cake coins

I make a couple of chocolate cakes each year for birthdays. I make a damned good chocolate cake. I do. And not by accident, either. I’ve gone through dozens of eggs perfecting this recipe, not to mention, hours on a treadmill working off the experiments. Over the years, I’ve tried everything from adding puréed beets, mayonnaise, or strong black coffee. I’ve come to know the difference between Dutch process cocoa and regular cocoa. I’ve even discovered a triple coco