Dang, I\'m getting hungry.
My Mom-in-law makes a cake certain to solidify your arteries. Dobesch Torte. Layers of thin sugar cookie \"pancakes\" with a smooth and rich chocolate filling that\'s burned out three mixmasters. She layers it all up, and then does a carmelized sugar top that hardens so we need a saw to cut the thing. We like it so much she doubles the recipe now so it\'s about 1800 calories per slice, 16 slices per torte.Now THAT\'s a dessert! It\'ll kill us someday, but it\'s yummy.
Still, we like pie too. Can\'t we all just get along? Sometimes pie is good, sometimes I just think the occasion deserves something more, and sometimes I love to make a garbage brownie...nuts, choclate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, cherry bits and swirls of vanilla stuff.
So, there\'s those that do pie but don\'t know how to make a garbage brownie, and those that do brownies and prefer not to do pie, and those that like almost anything as long as it\'s chocolate, and those willing to take a full day to do the Dobesch Torte, when it would only take an hour to do a Chocolate Banana Cream Pie. Still, they\'re all great desserts and as long as your mouth and tummy are happy, we can all get back to painting (Games Day Chicago tomorrow and I\'m sitting here dreaming of a pie break... )
