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Valentine's Requests...

2/15/2012

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A few days ago, I received this little gem:
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I know... he's about as subtle as a bomb...

I know he was just kidding but that was all the more reason that I knew I just HAD to make it... you know... out of spite!  Err.... out of LOVE!  :)

The recipe was pretty easy to follow:
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It was actually pretty delicious!  And Rob loved it... :)  And I loved that I completely surprised him.


A few things worth noting for the future:

* I didn't have cocoa powder so for the cake batter I just used one square of bakers chocolate - you melt it anyway so it worked just fine!  For the frosting, I just chopped up some semi-sweet chocolate chips and added them instead of the pecans.

* "Frost immediately" might not exactly be recommended.  I was skeptical about putting a buttercream frosting on a pretty warm cake.  And I was totally right to be - a lot of it melted right off the edge.  I threw it in the fridge right away though so I was able to save most of it!
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It wasn't all about the cake though!  We had a nice evening together - yummy beef stew for dinner (ok, so it doesn't scream romance... but it's comfort food, people!) and were able to just take a break from studying and spend a little time together.  I gave him a gift certificate for a chocolate-making class for two (can't wait!).  Rob gave me a beautiful new charm for my Pandora bracelet - it's silver with white mother of pearl hearts on it.  Perfect.  :)
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Tony Sob
2/15/2012 12:57:40 pm

Linning!

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