Here is my kitchen during my attempt at making Chocolate Eclair Cake. I used my sisters recipe and of course, as per the norm, something went wrong the first time with the frosting. I used Hersheys Special Dark Chocolate Powder mix. Too tart. Not sweet enough. Kelly said, try again. Not so hot on the just adding more sugar idea (as she is quite particular about recipes, I am not). So I make the second batch, totally trash the first. I am adding the salt as the recipe calls for and it seems such a small amount of salt, I thought, "oh no one could POSSIBLY taste that little bit of salt, so I threw in some more (note the word "threw" as opposed to measure). The batch of frosting sure LOOKED better and when I tasted it on first taste, it sure tasted better than the first batch. So I pour it on the well built Eclair Cake itself. Looked wonderful. I took another taste of the frosting in the bowl and I was still and paying attention this time and wow, it was salty. Hmm. Wonder why I thought? I really thought that. For about 5 seconds. Then I remembered. Oh yeah. I did throw in that extra salt. Dang it. So by this time, I was supposed to call Kelly back and I had my tail between my legs and I didn't want her to know I messed it up again on the second batch but lo and behold, my good friend rings my telly and wants to know how it's going. Dang it. So I start making a third batch. You know, to pour over the second batch which was now welded to the cake itself; no getting it off. She laughed. Who wouldn't? It's sadly very funny.
So there you have it. A chocolate eclair cake with two layers of chocolate frosting and I hope upon hope that those who eat it tomorrow just taste all the yummy chocolate and don't note the extra extra salt in the first layer of chocoLATE'.
Told ya Kelly. :0) But thanks for being there and helping me get it right. Now the people at the party will get double chocolate Eclair Cake. Nummy. Lets hope so anyway. Jeez.
Jenn
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