Well, I volunteered to make the cake for Josh's birthday get-together at Jer and Anastasia's. Did I overstep myself? I told Josh I would make whatever kind of cake he wanted. He said "black forest is my favorite". So, the nervousness began. I thought about it all week, looking on the internet and seeing those beautiful black forest masterpieces.....hmmmm....I don't bake, but it did involve cherry brandy to take the nervousness of baking away. So, Sat. noon, coming home from work, stopped and got all the goodies at the store and I began. I SHOULD have taken a photo of my kitchen when I was done! ....it took me two hrs to get it back to normal. While at it, I made a lactose free cake to take along, as Anastasia would have been left out, so I put brandy in hers also! (no lactose in that, is there?)
Here are the results:
enough said. I did the best I could, notice the chocolate is not "shavings placed carefully on top and sides" as the recipe said. How do these people do it for their photos on the internet?? I tried and tried to make just ONE shaving, ......so ...mine is crushed up chocolate - thrown on from a distance of about 3 feet. Al and Rocky were like vacuum cleaners on the floor, for all that didn't make it to the cakes.
I didn' have a piece of his cake at the party, I just couldn't. I was still recouperating from the brandy, chocolate pieces, and whipped cream.
But Josh was happy!!
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