The Birthday Cake

It was Mr X's birthday in July. Mr X usually requests pie rather than cake for his birthday. (The rules are that he gets to choose exactly what delicious foods he wants me to make for him on his birthday, including desserts of course.) This year he opted for neither. This year Mr X requested a flourless chocolate torte. Of course I couldn't resist tweaking it a little so I actually made him a the equivalent of a flourless chocolate torte enrobed in a dark chocolate cookie crust and covered with a dark chocolate ganache. I used the darkest Lindt chocolate I could find to do it. I basically tasted like eating dark chocolate truffles that were coated with a cookie-ganache crust. I thought it was incredibly delicious. The only problem was that after three or four bites you couldn't eat anymore or you'd start to feel sick from the decadence. Mr X seemed to like it quite a bit but he did admit that it's a bit too rich and next year he's going to go back to his usual request: A fruit pie of some sort.

In my torte's defense, I take absolutely horrible food pictures.