It broke in half.
If you read this before I get a chance to post the pics then you will just have to imagine a small chocolate cake on a white plate broken in half. If you are reading this after I got a chance to post the pics then you are looking at a picture of a small chocolate cake that is broken in half.
I'm in San Antonio visiting the bf for the week and have been eating EVERYWHERE! I will probably devote a whole post to the restaurants/bars I went to this week at some point (or not. I do what I want.) but to give you a little background, le bf works 2nd shift so for 4 days this week I have 10 hours of alone time. However, a couple of times his friends have been kind enough to invite me to hang out with them and do what people in San Antonio do. Or at least do what they do which is eating and drinking. I approve.
Yesterday (or Tuesday as I like to call it) we went to a fancy pants restaurant called Tre Tratorria (http://www.tretrattoria.com/) for lunch. Food was omgsonom. If you look at the lunch menu, I had the power lunch of mixed greens and gnocchi with gorgonzola. I did not order dessert but was offered a few bites of the Nutella X 3 and IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!! Basically it was a flourless chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse (I assume all with Nutella). I've never had flourless chocolate cake so the experience was wholly new and delightful and I decided immediately to try it. Feeling kind of bad for the bf who was at work and didn't get partake in this delightful experience, I decided I would be the most awesome gf in the world and make it for him while he was at work and surprise him!
So, today while the bf was at work I drove (all by myself!) to the store to get the ingredients for a flourless chocolate cake recipe from the internet (http://adashofsass.com/2011/05/23/flourless-chocolate-cake/). Then I made the cake. It's a very simple recipe and I whipped it up without any fuss and set the timer.
Except I set the timer wrong. I am notoriously bad at doing simple tasks. So I waited for the beep. And waited. And waited. Then decided to stop waiting and went to check the timer. I forgot to press "start." Luckily the cake looked ok so I took it out of the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes before turning it over on a plate like the recipe says to.
It broke in half.
Well I can't present the bf with a broken cake! I did the only thing I could think of and put the cake back in the pan. It looks mostly ok. And it hides the slightly burned bottom of the cake. Haven't gotten a chance to try it yet so hopefully it doesn't taste burned.
Here's (will be) a pic of it right side up! Nom!
*Note: Bf if you are reading this while you are at work then the surprise is all spoiled. How dare you?! But hopefully you are now excited for it! If you are not reading this then hopefully when you get home from work you will be surprised and excited.
**Note: Pictures of this cake are saved to my camera's internal memory instead of the card and I cannot find the cord to my camera to get the pictures of the cake off of it and onto this post. However, I have a solution! First, go to Google and "Google" "flourless chocolate cake." Look at pictures of flourless chocolate cake. Imagine the flourless chocolate cake first broken in half and then cut up with a nice dollop of homemade vanilla whipped cream. Also imagine the flourless chocolate cake a bit too crumbly because I burned it. That is basically how it went down.
