I'm sure this is delicious, but this is not a cassatta cake. Americanized, at best, it's a chocolate cake with ricotta filling. The 10 eggs in the original recipe make the cake light and airy. The custard filling studded with shaved chocolate and Italian cinnamon is to die for and you cannot substitute chocolate fudge frosting for real whipped cream. I would eat one piece of the chocolate cake and be satisfied. One piece of the true cassatta cake, because of its airiness(?), only makes the eater want to keep on eating.

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