My wonderful coworker Erin, who is our resident baker and craft goddess, made this little gingerbread house covered in chocolate. When i told her it looked good enough to eat, she warned me that it was actually a few wooden birdhouses spackled with chocolate. I maintain that this is enough for it to be technically edible. I will just have to wait until everyone goes home before licking it and will hope to not get splinters in my tongue.
If you look closely, you will notice that it is not just covered in chocolate, but it also has truffles and small pieces of chocolate on the outside. I am enjoying getting to know Erin and seeing the creative things she comes up with. Most of them are edible and rarely stay in our kitchen for a long time because of that, but some, like this, are on the line of edibility. I think it’s worth a try. Our front office smells like rich chocolate and it’s almost too tempting to just walk by. We will see how long it lasts.
3:14 pm on December 23rd, 2008
If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger!!!
Great post, Carl – you always crack me up. (I say grab a truffle – no one will know!)
3:35 pm on December 23rd, 2008
What’s a couple of tongue splinters in the name of potentially delicious and enticingly off-limits chocolate? I say go for it!
10:42 am on December 24th, 2008
Right on, Denise and Stephanie. As my Marine friends say, pain is just weakness leaving your body. I think I should take one for the team and eat it.
9:31 pm on December 24th, 2008
Carl, if you must, I will bring you a truffle so you don’t get tongue splinters. Not worth the pain when there is so much splinter-free chocolate to be eaten in this world. x-x
5:29 pm on December 25th, 2008
Erin’s pretty generous, too. I think if you just ask her for an extra truffle she would hand it over. On the other hand, she has a great sense of humor and might get a laugh out of seeing you with a bandaged tongue first. She might even ask you to sing “All I Want for Christmas”.
9:26 am on December 29th, 2008
Erin is pretty generous, even generous enough to give Carl a truffle, but, she would get a kick out of a bandaged tongue. It’s up to you Carl.
PS thanks for posting:)