I just took this cake out of the oven. I baked it in 2 KAF 8" pans. Both pieces of the cake had cracks on the top of the cake. Never have I baked a cake that turned out with cracks on the top. So, I called KAF and they transferred me to one of the ladies who answers questions. When I told her what happened she asked me if I had creamed my oil and butter, etc. I told her no because the recipe said to put all my dry ingredients in first, mix, then add the sugar, etc. I didn't like that idea but did it anyway just because the cake looked so good. This is for my son-in-law's birthday and I planned to make it look like the picture. When I told her how I mixed it she said, Oh, that's one of those recipes that we got from outside of our kitchen and you should mix it the way you normally do cakes. She was very disgruntled with how the recipe was written. She was so nice and said just cut off the cracked dome of the cake and it will be good. So that's where I am now. Just wanted everyone to know not to mix this the way it states. I just don't have time to redo the cake, besides I need to order more Double Dutch Cocoa powder. I'm a little skeptical about the filling now. Since the cakes have to cool completely I'll look at some recipes for this that KAF might have.

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