On Saturday my friend Mollie and I hosted a tapas and wine dinner party for a few friends. Mollie planned the tapas, and I was making an almond flour chocolate cake with buttercream icing for dessert. The party was slated to begin at 5:30. At 3:30, I realized I had forgotten to buy organic confectioners sugar for the buttercream icing. As I was panicking; and he was walking out the front door to play basketball, FB asked me if I was going to let the missing sugar ruin the entire dinner party. In my mind, I was thinking YES; but I continued with the cake, hoping Mollie who is a culinary genius would have some ideas.
Mollie arrived at 4:00 and we began cooking. I played the part of sous chef, while Mollie whipped up an array of delectable treats. To say the curried deviled eggs, crab stuffed mushrooms, pesto tomato and guacamole tomato bacon crostinis were enjoyed by all would be a vast understatement. The chocolate cake rounded out a great meal and as I knew she would, Mollie saved the day creating a whipped orange palm sugar frosting that paired perfectly with the cake. Needless to say, I had panicked for nothing. We had a great time talking about life; our hopes and dreams, plans for the future; laughing at the happenings at school (all of those present were teachers); and of course eating.
Hours later, as dinner came to a close, I sat back and looked around at the amazing group of ladies sitting at the table and I thought – life is good.
You can check out Mollie and all her wonderful recipes at www.thealmondflower.com
The recipe for the cake can be found at hip2save. I did modify it a little bit. Because I didn't have coconut oil on hand, I substituted butter. I also added a 1/2 cup coconut palm sugar, in addition to the honey the recipe calls for. Enjoy!
