Secret lover

It all started in late November, when one morning Michael found a couple of white roses and a letter in Italian in the front of our door. Some mysterious admirer?

Thanks to our Italian friends, who translated the letter, it was indeed a love letter and said something like "It can seems silly, but I wish to know you, I wish to speak with you and have a walk long canals of this beauty city, before than the sun goes down to leave the place to the moonlight."

We thought that somebody mixed the door (as none of us speak Italian) and took it downstairs so the mysterious admirer could take it to the right person. The letter and roses stayed there for a few days, nobody took them... :(

This weekend it happened again - at 7am in front of our doors there were 10 pink roses. No letter this time, but now the roses look very nice in our living room.

And the third time was yesterday, when after coming back from work Michael found a box of Australian chocolate with a note "For the most enigmatic and beautiful woman of A'dam :)". The chocolate was tasty (and I heard that also expensive), thanks, but still...!

So Michael wrote a letter that the secret admirer must be wrong with the flat number and took it downstairs this morning. One can't get in our house without a key, and there are around 15 flats in the house, so it must be one of the neighbors. :)

Well, maybe it is for me, of course, and I am the most enigmatic and beautiful woman! But I do not speak Italian and wouldn't it be silly to put nice presents in front of the door where one lives with the boyfriend? So I still say the secret lover mixed the doors...

Easy chocolate cake

I like cakes. And recently I discovered that I also like to bake cakes, so now every week or so I am baking a new cake at home.

One recipe I have tried already twice. Easy to make, easy to have all ingredients at home and easy to make guests happy!

Ingredients

- 200 g chocolate

- 200 g butter

- 200 g sugar

- 300 g flour

- 3 eggs

- breadcrumbs

Preparation

- Melt chocolate. Make sure you really have 200 g and not less, otherwise it's not so amazingly good! :) I mostly melt chocolate in the pan, but the best way to do it is in a hot water bath (check Google how to do it correctly if you do not know).

- Melt butter.

- Mix with the mixer the eggs and the sugar.

- Add the flour, melted chocolate and melted butter. Mix everything together.

- Take a spring-form pan used for cakes and rub it with the butter.

- Rub the form also with a bit of breadcrumbs.

- Put the dough in the form and bake for around 30 minutes in 175° C.

- After that it still needs to be a bit wet inside, but you do not know it before tasting. Just make sure you do not cool it too fast (they say that it should stay in an oven a bit afterwards).

The last time I baked it, it was tasting a bit like brownies - but maybe that's because I didn't have so much chocolate at home and I used only half of the necessary dose, so it was not so strong. Normally after eating a piece of it you should be completely full and not being able to eat the second one!

Enjoy and let me know how was it if you bake it!