Sunday, February 24, 2013

Gospel Dessert Week 2

 This week's Gospel is the Transfiguration.  Actually, every Second Sunday of Lent uses a Transfiguration gospel, just from different Gospels.  This year it was Luke.

It's a problem for me!  I've never really been satisfied with the desserts I've chosen to represent this gospel in the past.

This year we tried a chocolate lava cake. 

 The idea is that it looks like an ordinary chocolate cake, but when you slice it open, there is this core of oozy chocolatey goodness.  Sort of like Jesus looking like an ordinary human, but then revealing his divinity.

Hmm.  Divinity.  Maybe next year I'll try making divinity.

At any rate, the lava cake was really fabulous!  We topped it with a billowy "glory cloud" of whipped cream, and it was intensely chocolatey.  It didn't spill out chocolate goo as I had expected, but it's possible we let the cake cool too much.

As was, it tasted like a really fantastic fallen chocolate souffle, lightened by the crown of whipped cream. Yum!


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