Sometimes, when the weather is getting you down, the only answer is to make a cake…
Make a cake
Especially when your hens think that it’s spring and so you have an abundance of eggs…
Lots of eggs
Today’s cake is chocolate…
Freshly baked
With a chocolate butter cream filling and a chocolate ganache topping…
Yum!
I’ve posted the recipe for the cake before… it’s very simple. That’s all I have to say on the matter, except that if this weather continues much longer, I will be the size of an elephant!
The Snail of Happiness 
katechiconi
/ February 17, 2014So, tea’s round at yours, then? I can relate. I have a slab of home-made gingerbread which is calling my name every time I pass the kitchen… And I like the snail shaped egg holder!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 18, 2014Yes, let’s have a tea party!
The egg thingy is officially called an ‘eggskelter’… doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue! It is great, because it saves all the fumbling about in a basket trying to find the oldest eggs.
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katechiconi
/ February 18, 2014I have to keep mine in the fridge due to the climate, and then remember to take them out in time to reach room temperature before I start baking.
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nerdinthebrain
/ February 17, 2014Nom! That looks delicious…way to go, hens! 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 18, 2014I love the excuse to make cake… ‘must make cake, we have an egg surplus’!
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gentlestitches
/ February 18, 2014Yum indeed! I believe in “bake it better” 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 18, 2014“Bake it better” – I like it!
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davidprosser
/ February 18, 2014The first picture made me immediately reminisce about the time when I would either be able to lick the spoon or wipe the bowl with my finger after the mixing was over.
The last picture just looks scrumptious.Is there any left before I start walking?
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 18, 2014You are welcome to cake any time, David… should you ever be passing do call in!
x hugs x
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Nice piece of work
/ February 18, 2014Home-made chocolate ganache cake!? – you are too cruel.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 18, 2014I apologise for torturing readers… perhaps we should have a virtual tea party!
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Denise
/ February 19, 2014It’s a great excuse (egg surplus). I may have to get chickens for that very reason…
I’m currently thinking up a design for your Masterpiece if you’re still accepting pieces. It’s really got me thinking about your project and what we can do in our own little communities.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 19, 2014Oh yes, still accepting contributions… had a lovely package from South Carolina yesterday; it’s really exciting to receive the squares and read what people have written.
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metan
/ February 19, 2014I’ve been dying to do some real cooking lately, but the hot weather has definitely discouraged using the oven to heat up the house any more than it already is! In the last few days the temp has finally dropped, HURRAH! That meant last night I finally gave in and was making biscuits at midnight. 😀
Baking makes everything better. 😀
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 19, 2014I hate it when it’s too hot to bake… fortunately that’s very rare round here!
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metan
/ February 19, 2014It’s even been too hot to cook anything at all…. 😦 recently we’ve been living off things like cold tuna or chicken from my friend who runs the local char grill chicken shop! The kids are completely sick of salad now…..
The only time I’ve been doing any real cooking is when I’m home alone and have time to cool the house back down again before the kids and the Man get home. Today I’m sitting here with a shawl around my shoulders as a storm yesterday meant pouring rain and plummeting temperatures! 😀
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Jacquline
/ February 21, 2014Excuse me, I think I have some drool…
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