Chocolate Overload Cake from Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box is known for its sandwiches and commercials. But you may be surprised to know that their Chocolate Overload Cake is nice and moist. The cake is easily eaten with a fork and has the perfect amount of icing on it. I usually don’t like icing on my cake, but this chocolate buttercream icing tastes very good. It has 302 calories. That isn’t a huge amount of calories for a cake. But you need to remember that this cake is very small, and it doesn’t fill you up. This is a snack cake for someone who wants a rush of chocolatey flavor. I don’t know how they keep these things so moist, but I am pretty sure they refrigerate these Chocolate Overload cakes because they are slightly cool when I order them. What amazes me is how moist and yummy they are. I haven’t had a stale one yet. They must have a good system for keeping them fresh. A funny thing is that I looked up this item on the Jack in the Box website and then Jack said something like, “This is a great breakfast item too!” And I thought to myself, “No it’s not. Don’t tell people to eat cake for breakfast. You’re a bad influence on people, Jack.”
People shouldn’t eat cake for breakfast. This is a nighttime treat for when you’ve been good all day and you deserve something special. Now some people may be thinking, “What about coffee cake? I eat that for breakfast all the time! Take that!” And my response to that is, “Coffee Cake is still cake and they shouldn’t even serve it for breakfast.” Eating cake for breakfast is about as smart as chewing tobacco for lunch.
My main problem with the Chocolate Overload cake is that it tastes so good that I eat it in less than 2 minutes. And I have to pace myself to stretch the experience to the 2 minute mark. It being slightly cool from the fridge makes it all the more delectable.
Even though it is called Chocolate Overload, it isn’t overwhelmingly sweet. This is strange to me because I expected the cake to be disgustingly sweet because of its name. But in fact it is sweet, but very manageable for the palate. I don’t even need to drink it with milk. I usually wash it down with iced tea and have no problem.
There are supposed to be Bittersweet Chocolate Chips in the cake, but you probably won’t notice them. They are very subtle and taste more like accents to the cake itself, instead of separate hard chip-like entities. This is a good think because hard chocolate chips would have been an odd texture for the cake. But since the chips are more like soft little bittersweet lumps, they taste excellent within the whole experience.
I am proud to say that I have eaten one of these cakes every Monday for the past few weeks. And I don’t think I am going to stop anytime soon.
-Tyler