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@mónica1677227339 · 01 Dec 2020
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Dark chocolate ganache

Something that I love doing is baking. Baking takes me back to my childhood. It takes me back to my grandmother's wood fired oven, watching her beat eggs whites for ages with a fork until they were just right.

Listening to her tell me that if I use butter and flour in my pan my cake will not get stuck in the pan.
Her lovely orange flavoured cake from an orange tree she has in her garden, and how she knew just by feeling with her hands in the oven that the temperature was just right for the cake to bake.

It has been a life long dream to one day run a little cafe, and to bake the recipes that have been passed down from my grandmothers, aunts and mother.

Over the years I have also come up with my own recipes.
Sometimes you just throw some ingredients together and they work, other times you redo and retry different ideas and suddenly one day, you get it just right.

Today's prompt is chocolate and it had me going through photos of things that I have baked.

Now, when I think of chocolate I think of dark chocolate, I am not a fan of white chocolate, I find it much too sweet, but a dark chocolate that tastes more like cocoa than sugar, that's a winning formula for my taste buds.

On the other hand, my husband and children love sweet treats. So sometimes I have to find a balance so that we can all enjoy our treat.

I find this balance when I make what is known as "The devil's food cake", I then make chocolate ganache with a dark chocolate and cream. It is always a winner.

The cupcakes in the photos I made for a ladies charity event. These ladies spend many hours knitting baby clothes, blankets, bed socks, beanies and so on for under privileged families.
Once a year they have a function in which they all bring something to the table so that they can all share a meal together. When I heard of this, I decided to make something special for them, after all they spend so much of their time doing things for others, I thought it was only fair to do something for them too.

#yoorsdecember #chocolate

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marijke
ze zien er wel heel aantrekkelijk uit!!
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The Original Enrique
That's a beautiful story and the cakes looks awesome!
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365dgn
They look awesome !!
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enigma
Oh, this looks gooooood ! When I read your blog, it reminded me of how my mum used to do the eggs whites with a fork too.
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Mónica
@enigma We certainly can do things a whole lot quicker now. Thank you for reading
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christel_michele
Nice gesture and they look really delicious
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Adriana
Your cupcakes looks delicious and also very pretty, one can tell they were made with love 😊 I also really relate to having lovely childhood memories related to baking and chocolate, though I must confess my greatest achievements in that regard involved me eating cakes rather than baking them 😅
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Mónica
@Adriana 😂 Thank you, well the memories are there so that's all that matters in the end ☺️
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Frutselen in de Marge
dat is een attente geste voor de haaksters
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Mónica
@missmuhimu Thank you, yes they deserved a little something after all their hard work
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Encaustichris
Wonderfull!! And so delicious.... 😋
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Ingrid
The darker, the better. I mean chocolate of course!
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Mónica
@Ingrid Tips en meer ☺️ coffee, series can also be dark for me
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ElisabethsMagazine
What een great and sweet story about your grandmother. Full of memorys. The cupcakes looks very nice. I love dark chocolate also.
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Sandwichman
That looks delicious!
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Mónica
@Sandwichman Thank you, it's a family favourite
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Dewaputra
Looks good. I'm a fan of dark chocolate too, i love it.
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Madeleine
They look beautiful with the flower! I love dark chocolate a lot!
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