[ElSapo]

My grandmother had a similar-sounding cake. As I recall it (it's been years), it was a dense spongy cake that she would poke holes in and let a rich, fudge-like icing run down into. In my family it was called a "hot fudge cake," and while she wrote down half the recipe at some point it was mostly illegible and incomplete.

I have vivid memories of this cake, and have tried in the past to recreate it. I'll look at your recipe and try again. Thanks for posting it.

On a side note - I wonder if there's a market for a kind of "food detective" business. A chef who comes to your home and helps you try and reconstruct recipes that have been lost or partially lost in families.

Economically it's probably not, but seems like an interesting idea.