Project Cake

I met one of my cooking/baking resolutions this month: bake a cake from scratch. I decided since it was my first cake from scratch, I would go all out and make a chocolate mud cake for Valentines. It proved to be quite a process and I did things I had never done before:

I started by hand-chopping dark chocolate that was then melted.

I had to separate the yolks from the whites

Then I did something I had never done before nor knew was possible: whipped the egg whites until they foamed like hair mousse!

To make the frosting, I chopped more dark chocolate and melted it in a bowl over a pot of simmering water

I baked two cakes, stacked them, and filled the middle between them with home-made whipped cream

It was quite delicious, but lots of work!

We shared dinner and the mud cake with our dear Susie