When I offered to test some double chocolate brownies for a fellow twitterer, I thought that I was just helping out another Mum to perfect her baking technique. Little did I know, that the very next day would bring with it a taste adventure the likes of which I could not have even dreamed. I didn’t check my doormat immediately after the dog had raised ten bells of hell for the arrival of the postman, but when I did, I collected a small package that looked like an amazon book. Scratching my head, I opened the cardboard packaging and quite literally giggled with delight at the beautiful yellow tissue paper gift, tied lovingly with blue ribbon. So spring-like, girly and it really couldn’t have looked more perfect.
I gently tugged open the sky-coloured tie, and tenderly unfolded the lemon paper shroud and my senses were filled with the scent of chocolate, awakening my taste buds’ desire. The visual and olfactory joy was compounded with the awakening of the gustatory as I broke a small corner off the pristine brownie that lay before me. The firm yet crumbly flesh sent my senses into rapture and it was all I could do not to devour every last crumb of the delectable sweet in one fell swoop. With great restraint, and a testament to my loving and generous nature, I allowed my adorable son to give me, as well as he could, his opinion too. In the blink of an eye it had vanished, not a crumb reaching the floor, and the dog looked on with sadness and regret in his big brown eyes.
What more perfect gift could you imagine for a person who is sick/getting older/celebrating something or just in need of a cheering present? I give @utterlyscrummy the highest award possible for her baking – I really have never been so enamoured by a cake-biscuit before in all of my several decades on this planet.
I'm hungry now!
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