Chocolate chips, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla.
Five simple ingredients.
But. . .
mix them together in the proper proportions and they become. . .
Chocolatón!- an impossibly rich chocolate mousse. It’s important that you pronounce it using a Spanish accent with an especially heavy emphasis on that last syllable. (Don’t ask why. Just go with it. =D)
Eric calls it Death by Chocolate.
At least that’s what I think he said. It was hard to understand him with his mouth so full of mousse. 😉
(The recipe is posted over at Babalú today along with the story of why Valentine’s Day is a bittersweet holiday for me.)
Marta:I’m glad you had a great time in Hawaii and that everything is A-OK. Your post on Babalu today about chocolate-Valentine’s Day-Freedom would make an M&M melt in your hands like it did my cold, cold heart.
R.
Mom,It was VERY rich!
Thank you for passing on this tradition. I hold it close to my heart.
Rei-Thanks for your sweet words.
Cold heart? Sell it to someone else… I know different. Eres un bon-bon! =D
Besos,
Martica