We will be celebrating Jonathan’s birthday this Saturday. Jonathan isn’t a big cake eater and will only eat it if there is a significant amount of chocolate involved. Fred’s sister, Kristin, brought us one of their ward cookbooks a couple of weeks ago. Church cookbooks always have the best recipes – usually they are delicious and fairly easy. I found a chocolate cake recipe that I thought might be fun to try for Jonathan’s birthday. I bought quadruple the amount of items needed. I thought we would need to double the recipe and I also thought we should try it to see if Jonathan liked it.
Fred has been sick with pneumonia and has been sleeping not stop. I guess he had napped so much yesterday that he stayed up late and made the chocolate cake. I had absolutely no idea. I would normally wake up at the smell of chocolate, but I was really tired. He was so proud of himself this morning. He pulled out two small plates and dished out very large servings. I thought maybe he had dished them out for us to try before the kids got up. Oh no… those were for the kids.
Needless to say, they were in complete shock (and so was I) when they awoke to find that they would be having chocolate cake for breakfast. I was reminded of one of Bill Cosby’s early stand-up routines. He was telling a story about feeding his kids a breakfast that their mom wasn’t too thrilled about. Chocolate Cake. He reasoned that the recipe called for milk and eggs. It should make the perfect breakfast!
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Ha! I wrote a post about that very thing a couple months ago! "Dad is great, he gives us chocolate cake!" We sang that song a lot as kids. But your lucky kids...I don't think we ever really pulled off the breakfast of champions!
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