Bake. Laugh. Eat. Repeat.
Ah, love.
So sweet.
So glorious.
So red and covered in hearts.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner – don’t fight it people. Resistance is futile.
This is the story of the successful rehabilitation of a confirmed Valentine’s Day hater.
It begins, innocently enough, with a young lady who isn’t a fan of hearts, doesn’t look good in red, and can’t stand the taste of chocolate.
Seriously? I don’t blame you if you’re clicking away right now.
But wait! There’s a happy ending to this story…
This post is about love. This post is about life. This post is about cake.
Let’s get into it.
Have you read this book?
If you like love you’ll like this book.
If you like to laugh you’ll like this book.
If you like food you’ll like this book.
If you don’t like any of these things… um, what are you doing reading this blog?
I absolutely adore Like Water For Chocolate – I’ve read and reread it more times than I can count.
So it was a natural that, when the right time came along, I would bake my way through it.
And I couldn’t help but start with this wedding cake that appears early on in the book.
Now before the literary purists in the crowd go all Mr. Hyde on me, I want to stress that this is my own interpretation of the Chabela Wedding Cake. Like Water For Chocolate relies heavily on magical realism to tell its tale, plus the original cake was intended to serve 180 people – the recipe calls for 170 eggs.
Given that I don’t have a hen house in my backyard, I adapted the recipe to suit my own needs.
