The Triple Chocolate Birthday Cake
So, I have a horse that needs to be trained, and I am getting ready to go fire up my chainsaw and make poles for my soon to be constructed round pen. This of course makes me think of cake, because as all of my lovely followers know at this point, my brain makes weird, sometimes nonsensical associations on all levels. Your welcome! 😊
This particular cake was for one of my dearest friends on her birthday. She is a serious chocoholic, so I constructed this little concoction shortly after I disembarked a plane from our Mexico adventure. The cake itself is chocolate, and just to be cool I sprinkled mini chocolate chips throughout the batter. The filling is a chocolate mousse cream, a whipping cream and chocolate pudding combination that has been placed in our family's cakes for over thirty years.
The frosting though, it was an experiment. As I had just returned from my trip, I discovered that I was out of powdered sugar. No worries there, I just whipped up a flour and milk roux, chilled it, and beat in granulated sugar, butter, cocoa powder, vanilla, and a pinch of pink salt. When I say whipped, I mean full speed on the stand mixer until that frosting was fluffier than a cumulus cloud that hit the buffet a tad too hard! That frosting was silky, fluffy, not too sweet, and according to my friend, the best she had ever eaten. Yay for experiments!
The top of the cake had to have some form of swag, so I got out some lovely milk chocolate and melted it. My inner-preschooler came out to play as I swirled fun designs of melted chocolate onto a piece of waxed paper. I also might have looked a little forlorn as I popped it into the freezer to chill and harden.
After the chocolate had chilled, I broke the pieces and tossed them randomly onto the cake. Art-like and stuff.
So, now that I have shared that quick little cake of birthday accolades with you, I am going to go fire up the saw, drop some pine trees for posts, and probably get out the tractor and drill some post holes to place them in. Because in @generikat's world, cake and pen construction are often thought of in the same cognitive loop!
Happy Sunday to you all!!
And as always, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's super, awesome, amazing chocolate frosting smeared iPhone.