Easter baking - Cake thirty-nine

Chocolate eggs and lollipops - 2014

Chocolate causes addiction, no doubt! When you start eating some you’d never stop, you kind of magically feel better, the cocoa molecules cast their spell and capture your senses, they melt your heart and appease your mouth, but this state of food ecstasy doesn’t last long! A few moments after you’ve swallowed the last bite a mixed feeling of pleasure and regret pervades you and shortly afterwards you are 100% aware of the consequences of your eating chocolate. So you get crossed and console yourself with another bite and..... there you are in the trap once more! The circle has started again! 

Working with chocolate gives you the same appeasing sensation without side effects and frustrating feelings though. I love melting chocolate, I like the fact you can use it for writings, frostings and what I find most fun for chocolates of any shapes, colour and taste. At Easter eggs and rabbits of any size are a must, but egg-shaped lollipops are definitely my favourites!

Song: Across the universe

Follow your thoughts while they're tumbling free across the universe!

see recipe: http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2014/06/easter-baking-cake-twenty-nine.html

Cake twenty-nine

Symphony in red, black and white

An important day for my family: my daughter’s graduation ceremony. We’d all be there with some of her friends and close relatives. I was trying to disguise I was rather tense as I, like all mothers, wanted the best for her. I didn’t mean the best mark, I only wanted her to be fully satisfied: After all I don’t think that the final mark is what really matters, yes of course it does, but it’s more the atmosphere, the empathy, sympathy and interest in your work the professors show that really makes the difference for you. What you need is some kind of encouragement you’re afraid of the future. You know it’ll be tough then, but now it’s time to get some kind of reward for all the work done! I know pretty well what’s it like when nobody seems to care about you, 

in fact my graduation ceremony ended with these words: you’re now doctor in .... for what it’s worth. And this is all I remember of that day! 

I pretended I didn't care since, in a way, those studies were not what I really liked, but then when I got a job the following year, I must say, I'd have liked to call him, but what for? He wouldn't even have remembered my name... 

Luckily her story was different, she was very good and what most matters she was fully satisfied at the end. 

Song: Across the universe

Let's forget all our worries and enjoy this song.

see recipe:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/08/cake-twenty-nine-symphony-in-red-black.html