Oh Lord, just seeing the picture makes me drool.

I documented this astonishing orange-chocolate cake several months ago, when I still could afford buying those kinds of treats for myself.

I believe that indulging yourself with sweets is one of the ways in expressing your gratitude to Dear Lord. Isn’t it wonderful that human could discover the cocoa plants? And isn’t it amazing that human are able to produce varied chocolates (not to mention, that are wrapped beautifully, you ‘procrastinate’ a little while since you don’t want to break the gorgeous wrap and shape)?

Staring at the above picture, I guess I can still recall the gorgeous taste. The orange flavour was a bit bitter (yet tasty), but the chocolate cake part and the chocolate cream top were extraordinary!

Are you droolin’ right now?

—Diar

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My stepmom is a pretty avid baker. Lots of people sometimes give her orders of baking cakes and/or cookies. As a foreword, even any of her first-try-out work always tastes nice.

Including this homemade brownies topped with grated cheese I tasted a few weeks ago. She sliced the big cake in to small sizes, made we want more and just more. How could I get enough with only a 2-centimeter-wide cake at one time?!

So it was the very first time she tried baking brownies. And as I’ve reminded you, even the first try-out tasted great. Oh, I can still remember the taste. Makes me almost drooling now while writing this! The chocolate flavour, the crispy cheese (since it was baked as well), they just tasted awesome. She made her second try not so long ago. Still tasted great, but the cheese was too brown because of the oven heat. The image you see in this post is her first brownies try-out.

Let me emphasize again: the brownies tasted awesome. But did I mention that she forgot adding sugar into the brownies? Sugar—one of the sources of bliss! Now, how awesome that is, eh! Even without sugar, her brownies still gets straight A.

For sure, the brownies took me to the peak-experience moment

Amy S. Quinn, through my e-mail, told me a worth-browsing link:

World’s Best Chocolate: A Chocoholics Travel Guide

Thanks a bunch, Ms. Quinn

Before I start reviewing the taste of the chocolate of this bread, I’d like to compliment myself for attaining this achievement of getting the best choco photograph so far For the first time, in my opinion, I could make it to get a pretty clear choco imagery in the photograph I took by myself.

Okay, now with the review. I’ve experienced twice tasting this large-sized (literally) chocolate bread with vanilla cream inside. Can’t really comprehend, but I think the second time felt better.

Even though the chocolate inside this sandwich-shaped bread is ‘only’ the sprinkles one, but the bitter taste of the sprinkles is awesome. Plus the vanilla cream… hmmm, what a great collaboration. A big family of five or six can eat this bread together (there are two sandwiches inside the package)—but I ate those two alone ;D

I really have to emphasize this. The sprinkles are just great. Well, for that matter, they fit for you who like bitter taste of chocolate. But personally, that’s what a great chocolate is supposed to be—bitter (that’s the original flavor, after all).

[I got this pretty interesting text from an English text book back when I was in university, "Weaving It Together: Book 1"]

The Aztecs of Mexico knew about chocolate a long time ago. They made it into a drink. Sometimes they put hot chilli peppers with the chocolate. The called the drink xocoatl which means bitter juice. This is where the word chocolate comes from.

The Spanish took the drink from the land of the Aztecs to Europe. The Spanish didn’t like peppers so they added sugar to the chocolate. This drink became very popular in Europe. Until 1850 chocolate was aonly a drink. After that time Europeans discovered that chocolate was good to eat too.

The Aztecs believed that chocolate made you intelligent. Today, we do not believe this. But chocolate has a special chemical—phenylethylamine. This is the same chemical the body makes when a person is in love. Which do you prefer? Chocolate or being in love?