The Menage A Chocolate Cake.....aka ...Chocolate Three Ways Recipe

     About three years ago I was hired as consultant for a new restaurant that was opening in Sonoma, called CocoaPlanet. It was a gluten free restaurant featuring modern French cuisine. The dishes were to be light, healthy,  many  (but not all) vegetarian or vegan, and above all they were to be gluten free.  It was a good fit, because even though I myself am not gluten free, I have a lot of friends who are, and so had developed my own flour blends for baking and cooking.  I eat mainly a vegetarian, and now since my husband is off the meat, a somewhat pescetarian diet. One thing I did do was make any number of chocolate based desserts since the place was called CocoaPlanet and was the restaurant arm of CocoaPlanet    I made…