saturday afternoons at the edgrens are perfect. especially when baking with hannah & spending time with her 3 adorable active boys is on the docket. arrived during naptime today, dad & eldest son michael were off at the water park. hannah had gotten most of the ingredients together for pioneer woman's cocoa & cream cake (pw's ccc). my contribution was chocolate chips & a block of cream cheese. here's a full list of ingredients & steps:thankfully, youngest son grady woke up about halfway in. hannah had finished mixing the batter, then G was able to oversee me making the cream cheese mixture. (smiled the whole time, despite nursing a virus.) and before we put the two together, he looked like he wanted to do some damage, as you can see in pic above left.
final outcome melted in our mouths. the chocolate cake part's light & fluffy, not overpoweringly sweet, & the cream cheese mix gives it the gooey richness our hearts desired. those are hannah's technical terms;) (side note: husband jon seemed gratified, post- his toils at the water park, to eat two helpings of pw's ccc.)
a special non-desserty treat was middle son jonathan singing "our God is so big" & "God our Father" after napping. wish i'd captured his expression of sheer delight on film. also would love to share in that delight. God our Father, we thank Thee for our many blessings, ah-ah-men! i thank Him for the blessing this family's been. for desserts. and saturday afternoons playing with thomas the train, watching thomas movies, & reading thomas books with han's lil men.
I wish we lived near each other so you could come cook with me!!!
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