CONGRATULATIONS TO JORDAN FOR MAKING IT TO THE SEMI-FINALS FOR MOOT COURT COMPETITION!!

Only 4 out of 24 made it. What a huge accomplishment! We are rooting for him and his partner to argue their way to #1!! We are already PROUD. Yay! Jordan! (Jordan will finish his Juris Doctorate in May from George Washington University.

(L-R: Natascha, Jordan and Rose. Foreground: Hannah. Taken at the Bird Sanctuary in Las Vegas.)

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UPDATE:

Jordan and partner made it to the FINALS. So out of the 4, there are now TWO who will argue on January 19!! We hope you take the trophy!!!!

Yay Jordan!!!

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FURTHER UPDATE:

Jordan won BEST OVERALL COMPETITOR and two other awards! Check out his blog here. He will represent George Washington U Law School at the big competition in Boston, MA. AWESOME!!

Baking Frenzy

So now I have some leftover chocolate, cream and butter, I decided to experiment and make some more chocolate baked goods. These are made of chocolate wafer--flourless 'brownies' with just five ingredients: 9 egg yolks, 4 egg whites, sugar, semi-sweet chocolate and butter. The big challenge was getting these puppies out of the cookie sheets in one piece. I experimented with diamond shapes but oh well....that was a waste of good chocolate.

There are 3 layers here. One layer has raspberries and the second later, a liberal mound of Nutella. Hannah and Nate were here for the weekend and Nate preferred to have no raspberries so to distinguish between those, I sprinkled white chocolate chips on top.

I made semi-sweet ganache to pour on top. I just let the chocolate drip and ooze where it wanted to go. Ganache is so easy to make. It's just chocolates, heavy whipping cream and butter. Everything evil.

Here's all my little babies in a row.

Raspberries, chocolates and hazelnuts on left. Just chocolate and hazelnuts on the right. YUM!


Packaged and ready to go!

Bake Day!

I thought I'd bake a nice birthday cake for my friend's daughter's 18th birthday. It's a brownie cake with hazelnut chocolate filling and semi-sweet ganache on top--garnished with white chocolate bits. Indulgent?