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Wishing you a happy Easter weekend. What will you be eating?
Fruit Punch
1 year ago
Friday, 29 March 2013
a triumphantly plump chocolate hen
'We make the delicate liqueur chocolates, the rose-petal clusters, the gold-wrapped coins, the violet creams, the chocolate cherries and almond rolls in batches of fifty at a time, laying them out on greased tins to cool. Hollow eggs and animal figures are carefully split open and filled with these. Nests of spun caramel with hard-shelled eggs each topped with a triumphantly plump chocolate hen; piebald rabbits heavy with gilded almonds stand in rows, ready to be wrapped and boxed; marzipan creatures march across the shelves. The smells of vanilla essence and cognac and caramelized apple and bitter chocolate fill the house.' Joanne Harris Chocolat
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And I feel I've done enough just making crispie cakes with mini eggs in them!
ReplyDeleteIt's also my Nan's 80th birthday this weekend, so the family are lunching out in style!
Tonia - Happy 80th birthday to your Nan. Hope you ate and celebrated well.
DeleteHappy Easter, Joan!
ReplyDeleteAudrey - and a Happy Easter to you!
DeleteHappy Easter to you! I'll just eat some store bought chocolate - nothing like the confections mentioned in your quote, unfortunately!
ReplyDeleteAnbolyn - They are quite magical aren't they. Enjoy your chocolate.
DeleteHappy Easter! I made a Marmalade Cake yesterday and my daughter thought it rather funny that every time she walked into the kitchen it was ever smaller. There should still be room for chocolate, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteCosy - absolutely there's always room for chocolate... and cake.
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