Chocolate Lemon Pear Cake~ What makes up five layers of cake love? Let me tell you: 3 layers of chocolate cake, a layer of lemon curd, a layer of pears and some chocolate ganache in between and all around and you have enough cake love to last a few days.
That is unless you are my son, who a few weeks ago, told me “I don’t like cake”. Well, you have never seen anyone pull a better Linda Blair 360-head turn.
B-l-a-s-p-h-e-m-y.
Deciding not to disown him on the spot, I covered a piece in chocolate cake with buttercream frosting sprinkled on some his favorite M&Ms, and . . . to no avail. Weird thing is, he likes cupcakes-huh?
Well stubborn is as stubborn does; I pushed the issue once more and decided to bake a cake with his favorite fruit: pear.
And. . . . once more, to no avail. The kid doesn’t like cake. Why can’t it be brussel spouts that he doesn’t like?! Yeah, I know “bad-mommy-me”. Go ahead. But without him, I would have never thought of this cake.
So many thanks to my non-cake loving child and you will be thanking him too because this cake, to put in its correct vernacular (that is according to my friend’s 23-year-old daughter). . .
. . .is ridiculous!
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