Double-layer Quintuple Chocolate Cake from the Black Gates of Hell -- Of DOOM!

We came up with the idea for this cake for our friend Kathy's birthday in 2004. Kathy had been upset about not getting any of the Black Magic Cake she made for our friend Loren's birthday. The cake was left at our place, and Leslie at most of it over the next couple days. I had some too. Of course, it was all my fault, and Kathy made some comment that I heard secondhand, indicating maybe I should make her a Black Magic Cake myself. Well, I figured, if she was going to specifically request, I'd have to comply. But then, at the same time, our friends PJ and Loren also volunteered. We decided to pool our resources.

This cake is not terribly simple to make, but it isn't that hard either--just fairly time-consuming and as tricky as any double-layer cake would be. Now I had a brain fart on the day of Kathy's birthday and could not resist making the following certificate as "proof" of acceptance for the cake:

By the way, I took the name of the cake, ran it through babelfish, and got Japanese out of it. That is what you see in the "stamp" (even though I apparently got the letter order wrong). I then re-converted back, and this is what one might call "Engrish", which is below the "stamp". This certificate reminds me of anime where the screen freeze-frames in order to show the printed name of an action move, and also of Excel Saga, wherein the creator gives "permission" for each episode and the stamp of approval shows onscreen. The part about selling your soul for the cake, though--well, my friends claimed it was richer than the Triple Chocolate "Death" Cake from Gullifty's in Pittsburgh!

Ingredients

Everything for a Black Magic Cake
For frosting, we used just over one container (in other words, we did get a second container) of Betty Crocker Triple Chocolate Chip Frosting
Chocolate Fudge Pudding (we got Jell-O Instant, which calls for lots of milk, maybe 5 cups)
We recommend Pam with Flour for Baking to make pans very non-sticky
Depending on your occasion, candles or other accessories
I don't know what exactly Leslie used to make the light-colored icing, though it involved powdered sugar, vanilla, and coffee
at least 1 cardboard cake serving tray is useful--you will need this to transfer the top cake--get 2 if you want to serve it on one as well

Instructions

Make first Black Magic Cake. Wait 1/2 hour to cool a bit, then flip onto a cookie sheet or serving tray.
Make second Black Magic Cake. Leave in pan.
Make pudding.
Wait several hours for cakes to completely cool. If you used cook-and-serve pudding instead of instant, wait as long as that requires.
Get one of the cakes onto a serving tray, upside-down. This is the bottom cake.
Cover bottom cake with pudding. We went out to the edges, and it leaked out. Your mileage may vary, but if you want to avoid leakage, you might leave an inch or so margin.
Get second cake on top, right-side-up. (If you don't want to do it this way, you can arrange them however and may need to cut them down, which is more difficult.) In our case, what happened was a cake was put onto a cardboard serving tray, then the cake pan was put over it, then the tray was held over the bottom cake, and then the cake pan was held in place while the tray was slid out from underneath, letting it "land" on the bottom cake.
Frost the cake.
Decorate the cake, if desired.
If you really want to go over the top, you can print out this certificate, as depicted above.

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