Reunited and it feels so good....

Reunited with buttercream, chocolate ganache and chocolate cake scraps, that is...

That's right, mere hours after Patrick gave us the indulgence #1 go ahead, I indulged.  I didn't really even plan for it to happen, and thought I'd take days and days trying to figure out how exactly I wanted to bust out, but it's done and it was YUMMY.

I'm making a big cake for someone on Sunday and wanted to get all the basic work (cake baking, frosting, etc) out of the way tonight so I could concentrate on decorating it tomorrow.  I made a delicious chocolate ganache filling (bittersweet chocolate, heavy cream, vanilla, coffee extract and good old butter), along with devil's food cake and vanilla buttercream frosting (all homemade, all ingredients my grandmother would recognize... Michael Pollan would be proud:).  Lots of scraps left over and I initially just tasted a couple of times to make sure everything was on the up and up -- it was.

I fed Doug and my dad scraps so I could live vicariously through them, and then Doug suggested THIS be my indulgence.  It made sense - I knew I'd like it, I knew what was in it and it was sitting on the table in front of me!  So I indulged - and it was SO worth it.  Semi frozen pieces of cake top, with a couple of blobs of ganache and buttercream, chased with a glass of icy cold skim milk.

I can already feel a yucky sugar headache coming on, and the queasiness will follow soon, but for the moment, it was worth it!

Hope you all enjoyed your indulgence as much as I did.

YUM YUM YUM