Chocolate Cake Church

And when there is lack of flour, what do we do then?

When ingredients, as ingredients do, run out, to where do we turn?

Or do we turn inwards and despair?

Today’s thoughts are taken from the first Epistle of Mr Bunn the Baker to Delia Smith.

Delia, when she was delayed, and en route by rail to a location amd having missed her train, tells that she prayed “God, you know what to do. If it is your will then I will arrive on time.” And she reports that she arrived on time.

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Hot, as one might say, on the heels of the news of the cake burning in Germany, we look at Austria, its smaller and once annexed neighbour for what many see as the ultimate devotion. “How,” they ask, “can any other cake, any other Torte, offer so much to The Chocolatey Mistress? How?” And they bow their heads in silent contemplation of the rich chocolatiness, the apricot tartness, and they wonder.

I have been privileged to partake of Cake at the Hotel Sacher itself. Were The Chocolate Church to have buildings in which to worship, this would be a shrine! And eating the glorious Torte in the premises where it was conceived… Deep joy.

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It came to pass on the second day, for on the second day the Chocolate Cake had matured and was at its peak of perfection, that the Chocolatey Mistress appeared as a vision in the cake. As the vision, perhaps influenced by the fine rum with which the cake had been infused, she uttered some of the many tenets of Cakey Bakey Goodness.

It is those tenets that form the basis of the Grand Baking, and those tenets which must be upheld. Of these, the greatest is: Read More »

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We have been lucky enough to track down this unfaked video of an apparition of the Chocolatey Mistress Herself in a Chocolate Cake. However the pictures show a degree of graphic violence that is quite shocking, and we recommend to not let children watch unattended. Read More »

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