{"id":2239,"date":"2008-05-24T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2008-08-26T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:43:59","slug":"chocolate-makes-almost-anything-better-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/2239","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Makes Almost Anything Better. I Hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still feeling moderately crappy, so I decided it was time to pull out the big guns.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up fresh organic strawberries today, I have whipping cream, and I just prepared (minus the baking) molten lava chocolate cakes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2518868053\/\" title=\"Mis en Place by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2293\/2518868053_1a91f460f7.jpg?resize=500%2C290\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" alt=\"Mis en Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mis en Place!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2519687420\/\" title=\"Melting the butter and the chocolate by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2342\/2519687420_dd86f3d4e4.jpg?resize=500%2C364\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" alt=\"Melting the butter and the chocolate\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melting the chocolate and the butter. That would be 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate and 2 sticks of butter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2519687788\/\" title=\"Eggs, Sugar, and Vanilla by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2322\/2519687788_ff3fe91777.jpg?resize=500%2C376\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Eggs, Sugar, and Vanilla\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixing the eggs, sugar, and vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2518869217\/\" title=\"Adding the melted chocolate mixture by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2413\/2518869217_1669e716c5.jpg?resize=500%2C376\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Adding the melted chocolate mixture\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adding the melted chocolate mixture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2518869651\/\" title=\"Pouring the cake batter into ramekins by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2242\/2518869651_47433c1036.jpg?resize=440%2C488\" width=\"440\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Pouring the cake batter into ramekins\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pouring the batter into the buttered ramekins.<\/p>\n<p>Cakes are now in the oven. (That is, three are in the oven, four more are in the fridge to be baked tomorrow or Monday.) For the curious, the recipe is Molten Lava Chocolate souffle cakes from <em>The All-American Dessert Book<\/em> by Nancy Baggett. I made these last summer for my birthday, and I am hoping they are every bit as good as I remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2519942276\/\" title=\"Cakes going into the oven by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3156\/2519942276_d37a4e69af.jpg?resize=462%2C318\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" alt=\"Cakes going into the oven\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cakes going into the oven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2519942652\/\" title=\"Cooling Cakes by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2185\/2519942652_98d6426937.jpg?resize=500%2C377\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Cooling Cakes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooling for six minutes while I make the whipped cream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2519122845\/\" title=\"Molten Lava Chocolate Souffle Cake by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2038\/2519122845_bcf7f99b42.jpg?resize=500%2C377\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Molten Lava Chocolate Souffle Cake\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molten Lava Chocolate Souffle Cake with fresh whipped cream and strawberries.<\/p>\n<p>Best part? Michael cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to curl up and read another book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still feeling moderately crappy, so I decided it was time to pull out the big guns. I picked up fresh organic strawberries today, I have whipping cream, and I just prepared (minus the baking) molten lava chocolate cakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[49,68,66,67],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-food","tag-chocolate","tag-molten-lava-chocolate-cakes","tag-strawberries","tag-whipped-cream"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-A7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}