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Oh yeah! I've got my plate and fork ready! LOL.
Very pretty, Jen.
Mmmmmmm, chocolate, my favorite!
That wouldn't be Boston Cream Pie by any chance, now would it?
BTW:
here
are two questions that immediately come to mind when you hear Boston Cream Pie.
One is "Why is it called a pie?", and the other is "Why the name
'Boston'?". To answer the first question of why "pie"
instead of "cake", it is probably because colonists baked their cakes in
pie tins as they did not own cake pans. As far as calling it Boston
Cream Pie, the story began when a New York newspaper in 1855 published a recipe
for a 'Pudding Pie Cake'. This recipe was similar to the Boston Cream Pie
recipe of today except that it had a powdered sugar topping. From there we
go to Boston where a man named Harvey D. Parker opened a
restaurant called the Parker House Restaurant. On the menu was a 'Parker
House Chocolate Pie', the recipe
to which was similar to the New York newspaper
recipe except a chocolate glaze had replaced the powdered sugar
topping. We are not sure how it was renamed to 'Boston Cream Pie', but
Bo Friberg in
his book 'The Professional Pastry Chef' thinks "the name stems from the
original
title (in the New York paper) combined with the reference to Boston."
I love the visuals of the first pic... the two sets of parallels... Cool!
@ToReadYou - Chocolate cake, dark chocolate filling, whipped mild chocolate frosting.
I love Boston Cream Pie.
it looks absolutely decadent!
Wow! Perfect timing... I just finished dinner and that looks delicious. I'll be right over.
I JUST lamented, to no one in particular, that I was really craving some kind of chocolate cake right now.
You HAD to go and do that, didn't you?!
Looks yummy. Enjoy it!
You are NOT helping my diet!!! LOL!
I'm on a diet. Screw you.
No, it's beautiful, really.
so what does the inside look like....
That is one gorgeous piece of food. :D