Is it possible to eat too much chocolate cake? Well I found out last week that the answer is yes...and no. This is not your average chocolate cake I'm talking about. This one came from one of those fancy food market bakeries. And it was definitely worth the premium price. After all it was bought to celebrate my daughter's birthday so we wanted something special.They called it a "Mud" cake.
How best to describe it? Well, to start, if you mashed together about 25 of those large brownie squares you see in the stores, the thick chewy ones, kind of like those Sara Lee tray brownies, not the flaky style brownies, you have a good beginning. Then add just a touch of chocolate mousse on the inside. Okay. Next, you cover the whole thing with a thick chocolate shell. Then add some chocolate strips for decoration, and you've got it. Now we can begin.
You have to sneak up on a cake like that. You take a little slice because you know it's rich and you don't want to eat too many calories but of course you absolutely want to celebrate your daughter's birthday. By the way she loved the cake. Who wouldn't? Okay. By now you're happily hooked. But still using your best sense because each slice has endless calories you take a sliver of a sliver and it's still really good. Then another sliver...and another. Now, not only is it excruciating delicious but it's become a game too and it's fun. Finally you manage to stop, not because you want to but because your stomach can't take it anymore.
For a little while anyway. So in a half hour or so you drift back towards the kitchen and since there's still half a cake left you go back to the sliver technique which has proved so successful previously. Oooooooooooh. It's good. Now, by repeating this process with your other family team members you've reduced the cake to the "Leave the rest for Joslyn." stage. Thank God. You now have an overriding moral reason to stop eating that wonderful chocolate cake.
AFTERMATH.
Now you have to make peace with your body. It only took about 5 hours recovery before I started wondering if there was any cake left, even though I still knew it belonged to the birthday girl. Fortunately though my recovery had begun and my self control had returned. However, thankfully, in God's grace, I was still left with those blissful wistful thoughts of that incredible experience of the time I spent gorging on that delicious chocolate cake. But would I ever do it again? Definitely not tomorrow or even the next day...but maybe the day after that I might be able to, if I tried real hard.
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