The Best Thing I Have Ever Ate

One of the shows that LA and I watch on TV is "surprisingly" on Food Network - The Best Thing I Ever Ate and they have different categories for each episode - desert, steak, seafood, meals, chocolate...etc and their celebrity chefs tell you where their favorite spots are.  I will probably never be asked for a guest spot on the show but I am ready if they ever come calling.  I am thinking about sharing them here.  I will at least share one of them.

The Best Thing I Ever Ate - Desert

My aunt Deborah make a chocolate cake that is too die for and I am pretty sure I am up to the challenge of eating an entire cake in one sitting.  It is so simple but it is delicious.  It's yellow cake and homemade chocolate icing.  The key is the layers - it is nine super thin layers with a layer of chocolate icing in between each layer.  Whenever there is a family function the only reason anyone attends is just in case Deborah has made a chocolate cake.  You think I am kidding?  The cake has been hidden before to keep non-family members and on occasion even family members from eating a morsel or knowing it even existed.  You might never get a chance to understand what I am talking about unless she starts selling them when she retires from her full time job.  When I am lucky enough to get a half or whole cake, it is like the cake is a dead man walking.  I am not sure of the record for consuming the entire cake but there isn't much time.  A magician would be impressed with this disappearing act.  It's probably only about a three (four max) day window.  I will eat the cake for breakfast (didn't you see what Bill Cosby had to say about cake for breakfast? (starts at 3:54))

and a late night snack both time with a glass of cold milk.  I will eat it after family dinners with tea but it isn't as good but sometimes you have eat it when everyone else is just to make sure you get a slice.  It toughs but I am up to the challenge.

Here's what's left of a cake she brought Sunday (family did help eat a quarter of it).

Look at those layers....My normal slice size is about 3x the normal slice size or the back quarter that if cut into normal slices is really not a big enough slice so I take one for the team and eat it.  It's the kind of guy I am, willing to take one for the team.

If I ever offer you a piece of chocolate cake (highly unlikely), I suggest you take me up on my offer.  It will be the best thing you have ever tasted.