I'm not a chocolate guy, I'm a candy guy. Anything you can do with sugar is for me. However, I always like your topics and I don't want to threadjack so I'll stay with the theme.
I married a chocolate lady who seems to be genetically predisposed to it because her dad is an out and out chocoholic. Around Christmas last year my FIL had taken to eating these little squares of dark chocolate marked with percentages. My wife sees him sucking these things and next thing you know she's hooked. She broke an edge off one once and gave it me. Dark and bitter. Fast forward to September this year and we're walking around the state fair and there is a chocolatier selling truffles. The truffles had percentages of something or other on them and when I asked what it meant the guy explained what it was. I bought a single truffle of the highest percentage and gave it to my wife and FIL to split. You know they really had to make an effort to get that little thing down and they both commented it was too bitter. My wife pretty much went off dark chocolate after that and my FIL went back to York patties and milk chocolate.
Last week my ankle biter turned 7 and I took cupcakes up to her school. I had a devils food cake mix I was using but when I looked in the fridge I had bought medium eggs and not large. Newsflash to me: eggs come in sizes. I joined Duncan Hines discussion board (why not it worked for me at JWD) and started looking for all things eggs. No help there on my specific question. Recipe called for 3 large eggs and I used 4 medium. You know that was the smoothest softest cupcake I've ever tasted. I got two kids who said, "You're a cool dad." and the teacher said my wife was a good baker. Oh well 2 out of 3 aint so bad.
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...OUTLAW