Happy Birthday Mom!
She blew out the candle!
Today’s technically my mom’s birthday. (I’m not going to divulge her age.) We celebrated a bit more than week earlier. “Why?” you ask. Well, her excuse was the fact that last weekend was the Mid-Autumn Festival and we can nosh on moon cakes (I love the lotus seed filled ones with no yolks. I how know you traditionalists feel but I like it that way.) and chocolate caaake. Not any cake, it has to come out from the La Maison du Chocolat cookbook.
Innards
The cake turned out very good, as you can see. I’ll post up the recipe tomorrow. I need sleep with the unfortunate drama with my mom’s health (so many tests involved with her and going back and forth, talking to various doctors) and work.
Happy birthday to your mom!!! Such a decadent, luscious-looking cake for the occasion – fabulous!!
Happy birthday to your mom! That is one crazy-rich looking cake!
VeggieGirl: Thanks!
‘boppy: Thanks on behalf of my mom. :) It was rich but my mom managed to eat about 1/3 of the cake in ONE DAY. Crazy…
ah! your mom is also a September born! Hope she had a good birthday, despite all the worries abot her health. I wish her many more! to health and life!
your mom ate 1/3???? well at least she has a good appetite :) Can’t fault a chocolate lover!
Kim: Yep, she’s born in September.
Indeed, she ate 1/3 of the cake. It’s crazy-scary how much she normally eats when she doesn’t have to worry about her health. :/
Awwww… So cute!
Chocolate and almonds sounds great. I forget about the combo sometimes (hazelnuts, pistachios, ALMONDS, yes!) Reminds me of the chocolate almond croissant from Bouchon… mm.
This looks like a great confection! Happy Birthday to your mom!
dbtron: It’s AMAZING! Somehow, this particular cookbook loves the combination of almonds and chocolate. They even manage to do that in a brownie recipe(?!).
Thanks.