In honor of William & Kate's Royal Nuptuals....Prince William's Chocolate Biscuit Groom's Cake!

This refrigerator cake is simple and easy enough for common-folk like myself to whip up in no time flat. I'm not even sure why it's called a "cake". It's fairly dense, intensely chocolaty, and reminds me more of a candy bar.



I wasn't sure I'd be able to locate the McVities Rich Tea Biscuits called for in the recipe. My best option locally was World Market, and ten minutes later I was walking out of the store with McVities in hand



Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Lightly adapted recipe from Eating Royally by Darren McGrady


1/2 tsp. softened butter for greasing pan

8 oz. McVities rich tea biscuits, broken into pieces

1/2 stick (4 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened

1/2 cup extra find granulated sugar

4 oz. (about 1/2 cup) chopped chocolate or chocolate chips

1 egg, beaten

8 oz. chocolate for icing

Cinnamon for dusting

Lightly grease a 6" spring form pan. Set aside. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until mixture has lightened in color.

Melt 4 oz. chocolate in a double boiler. Add butter and sugar mixture to the chocolate stirring constantly. Add the egg and continue to stir. Fold in biscuit pieces until they are all coated with the chocolate mixture.

Spoon the chocolate coated biscuits into the cake pan. Press firm with the back of a spoon to fill in any gaps - the bottom of the cake will be the top when turned out. Chill the cake in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

Remove cake and unmold on a wire rack. Melt the 8 oz of chocolate (I did this in the microwave) and pour over the cake. Spread smooth with an off-set spatula. Allow chocolate coated cake to sit at room temperature until chocolate is set. When set, run a spatula under the cake to remove from wire rack (chocolate makes it stick a little). Transfer to a fancy serving platter, slice and serve.

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My Husband Rules

I realized I never posted about Matt building Bridgette's bedroom downstairs.  Get ready for some preeeego pictures!  I forgot how big I was!  This is what the basement looked like to begin with

I was pretty much just a supervisor.  Pretty much sat in a chair and kept Matt company.  There wasn't much I was able or he would let me do

There is the start of the closet and me perched on my mama chair in the left corner

Outside wall.  Matt wrapped the bottom of the walls in roofing moisture barrier in case we ever got water in the basement.  We don't have a sump, so we need to be careful about it.

HOLY MOLY!!!  It is bizarre seeing these pictures, I have no recollection of being that pregnant.

Doing the electrical

Filling the insulation

Looking from the outside of the bedroom

Matt's friend Eric helping with the electrical and drywall

Here is the closet.  The house was built in 1957, so this is by far the biggest closet in the house.  I took over half of it, Bridgette was a good sport about it as always.

Moving B down to the new bedroom.  Painting her old room to get Charlie in there.  Charlie was born at this point but he was in bassinet in our room

B helping paint her room

She picked out the color, I really liked her choice!

Dad working on the nursery

Ta Da!

Walking with Eliza

Top Teeth

Because his teeth hurt, I don't think he knows where the pain is coming from and has been pulling on his top lip- hence the bruise.  He has 4 coming in on top, he's been in a lot of pain.  He woke up Friday night incosolable.  It had to have been his teeth, all I could do was give him some tylenol and rock him until he was out

I should have named my blog 'The Well-Intentioned Chef' Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs

I find all these lovely recipes online and I think...I can do that.  I decided we would skip the store bought candy and I'd try to make something from scratch for the kid's Easter baskets.  Here is what they were supposed to look like

Start with 2 1/2 cups Peanut Butter

Add 1 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

Stir together, I had to use my hands at the end to really combine the ingredients

Recipe said that it would make about 20-25 eggs.  I made 30 and still had some left over.  I would have liked to make these smaller- that's a lot of peanut butter.  Next time, I would definitely cut the recipe in half

I got the toppings ready.  You have to put them on very quickly.  The candy melt hardens very quickly.  I used coconut, almonds and sprinkles

Well....the peanut butter eggs looked more like peanut butter rabbit poo.  I had to laugh because they were turning out so bad



Here is a real gem



This is probably the only one that I thought looked good- the ONLY ONE

I put them in cups and wrapped them in little bags.  Oh well, they are very tasty and that's all that matters really

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Ethan turns 11!