Designer Chocolate Baby Grands

I’m on the Board of Interfaith Community Services and offered to bring dessert for today’s Church Council meeting.  We were expecting 40, so I took the Chocolate Baby Grands, chocolate chip cookies, and a soon to be posted Plum Blueberry Upside Down Torte.

I’m very fond of this (Rose’s German chocolate) batter; it’s moist and very chocolaty.  The cakes are brushed with a  chocolate ganache syrup and then topped with a chocolate glaze.  The shinny finish was an interesting change, but for my simple taste, the time and mess involved weren’t justified by a huge improvement in flavor.  I would have been just as happy with a swirl of chocolate frosting.  The attendees and my co-workers (who didn’t have sticky chocolate in their kitchens) enjoyed the cupcakes and complemented the flavor.  Melinda, with tastes leaning more to savory than sweet, appears to have a weakness for chocolate.  She described these with “YUM!”  The youth helping with the lunch were mesmerized by the texture of the chocolate glaze; it could be fun to play with.

Unlike my other blog posts, as part of the Heavenly Cake Bakers, I don’t post recipes from this book on the Internet. One of the reasons for this baking group is to encourage readers to purchase the cookbook. That strategy worked on me! After follow the group’s baking adventures for a couple of months, I ordered a copy from Amazon because I wanted join in.

Lois Britton

An accountant by trade and a food blogger since 2009, Lois Britton fell in love with Polish cuisine during the years she lived in Poznań, Poland. As the creator of PolishHousewife.com,  she loves connecting readers with traditional Polish recipes. Lois has a graduate certificate in Food Writing and Photography from the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Polish Housewife Cookbook, available on Amazon and on her website.