Mother's Day celebrations

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We are doing split Masses today because of illness, and I just came home to discover a homemade chocolate cake in a heart-shaped baking container. (I was told to buy dark chocolate yesterday, but I didn’t know what it was for and my husband was very secretive.)

Here is the cake recipe:

balaganrecipes.info/moelleux-au-chocolat-french-chocolate-cake/

4 eggs
150 grams caster sugar [that’s powdered sugar]
200 grams of dark chocolate with 70% cocoa *
3 teaspoons water
125 grams butter
50 grams flour

Check that out–four times as much chocolate as flour!

I haven’t tasted it yet, but it smells really good.*
 
Xantippe said:
We are doing split Masses today because of illness, and I just came home to discover a homemade chocolate cake in a heart-shaped baking container. (I was told to buy dark chocolate yesterday, but I didn’t know what it was for and my husband was very secretive.)

Here is the cake recipe:

balaganrecipes.info/moelleux-au-chocolat-french-chocolate-cake/

4 eggs
150 grams caster sugar [that’s powdered sugar]
200 grams of dark chocolate with 70% cocoa *
3 teaspoons water
125 grams butter
50 grams flour

Check that out–four times as much chocolate as flour!

I haven’t tasted it yet, but it smells really good.*

Hope you enjoy it.

Happy Mothers Day to you. 🙂
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We ended up splitting today after my 3yo lost his breakfast. DH (with some help from the kids) made heart-shaped waffles for brunch and is grilling later. Other than that we are planting our blueberry bushes today (yay!!!) and we might enjoy a margarita or two after the kids go to bed. 😃 (My present was a blender…our previous one was his grandmother’s and it held on for fifty years! But it finally died so we have a “fancy” one now…that I’m sure I will use for reasonable purposes but we’ll break it in with cocktails.)
 
Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there! :flowers: May God abundantly bless you and your families 🙂
 
pensmama87 said:
We ended up splitting today after my 3yo lost his breakfast. DH (with some help from the kids) made heart-shaped waffles for brunch and is grilling later. Other than that we are planting our blueberry bushes today (yay!!!) and we might enjoy a margarita or two after the kids go to bed. 😃 (My present was a blender…our previous one was his grandmother’s and it held on for fifty years! But it finally died so we have a “fancy” one now…that I’m sure I will use for reasonable purposes but we’ll break it in with cocktails.)
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Very sweet!

My 11-year-old son has been trying his hand at container gardening, and yesterday he and my husband bought a chocolate mint plant and some carrot seeds. The chocolate mint has been planted and I’m really excited about it. I’m thinking it will make a really nice ice cream garnish…
 
Xantippe said:
Very sweet!

My 11-year-old son has been trying his hand at container gardening, and yesterday he and my husband bought a chocolate mint plant and some carrot seeds. The chocolate mint has been planted and I’m really excited about it. I’m thinking it will make a really nice ice cream garnish…
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Yum!!
 
pensmama87 said:
We ended up splitting today after my 3yo lost his breakfast. DH (with some help from the kids) made heart-shaped waffles for brunch and is grilling later. Other than that we are planting our blueberry bushes today (yay!!!) and we might enjoy a margarita or two after the kids go to bed. 😃 (My present was a blender…our previous one was his grandmother’s and it held on for fifty years! But it finally died so we have a “fancy” one now…that I’m sure I will use for reasonable purposes but we’ll break it in with cocktails.)
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Plant some colorful annuals spilling out of the old blender! Just cut off the cord since it no longer works!
 
Sarcelle said:
Hope you enjoy it.

Happy Mothers Day to you. 🙂
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We had the cake after lunch. It’s an interesting texture–half cake-y, half pudding-y and it totally doesn’t need frosting (but vanilla ice cream might be nice).

We have filed the recipe away for later use.
 
Xantippe said:
We had the cake after lunch. It’s an interesting texture–half cake-y, half pudding-y and it totally doesn’t need frosting (but vanilla ice cream might be nice).

We have filed the recipe away for later use.
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Do you have a cheat sheet for amount conversions? I can manipulate grams in physics equations but I’ve never measured them in my kitchen. 😉
 
pensmama87 said:
Do you have a cheat sheet for amount conversions? I can manipulate grams in physics equations but I’ve never measured them in my kitchen. 😉
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My husband used a postal scale (!) to do this, but I will ask if he has the numbers.
 
Xantippe said:
We had the cake after lunch. It’s an interesting texture–half cake-y, half pudding-y and it totally doesn’t need frosting (but vanilla ice cream might be nice).

We have filed the recipe away for later use.
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I remember baking a cake like this once.

It was good with vanilla ice cream and strawberries.
 
Happy Mother’s Day to all you Moms out there. Enjoy your day. God bless you all. ❤️
 
Xantippe said:
I have my answer: google the conversions. Husband says: just google “150 g in oz.”
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Of course, my smart alecky self wants to ask what to do if I want to make this on the moon, but I will refrain. 😃 Thanks!
 
We went to EF Mass together, the children didn’t seem to get it was mother’s day and gave me possibly the hardest time ever they have at mass 😉

Then we had lunch with DH’s mom (and aunt, and my sister [who also attended mass with us]). Then my sister and I went and visited our late mother’s grave and prayed for her.

Now my husband is going to cook dinner AND wash the dishes. 😃
 
Oh, man, that cake sounds heavenly!

DH handled the getting-DD-up bit this morning while I ran out for kolaches (no cooking, and yummy). Then Mass, followed by a stop at the phone store: my phone’s been dying for a while, and by combining our current phone plans, we could take advantage of an upgrade and save over 50%/month on the phones–win-win! Next, I got to go to a crafts store–gasp!–By Myself, and now DH has taken Miss Toddler out for the remainder of the evening while I get to do some fun sewing and pick up sushi for dinner from my favorite place (mmmmmm, plus, again, no cooking!).

Life is gooooooood. 😃
 
Husband went to play organ for two Masses, so my mother and I took the kids strawberry picking. I love the smell of freshly picked strawberries! Then they came over for BBQ.
 
Professor Snape tweets:

“A moment of silence for all of the fictional mothers that had to die in the name of tragic back story and character development.”

twitter.com/Snape
 
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