Recipe: Chocolate Valentines Heart & Truffle Cake Recipe »
This is my shyer approach to Valentines Day. I know hearts are all very predictable but another shape wouldn't really do for Valentines Day. I decided to fill this box with home-made truffles and hiding underneath it was a home-made chocolate & raspberry truffle cake. A little surprise if you will or a "I Love You more than you thought" kind of gift for when people have finished with their layer of truffles only to discover another layer of goodness underneath. The truffles are incredibly easy to make and quite rewarding. There is one side effect though, and that is I find that I rarely buy truffles now that I know how easy they are to make, eschewing them for more complicated shapes or fillings. The truffle cake is delectably moist and gooey inside, much like how you'd like your lover's heart to be when you give this to them and the truffles are fabulous and versatile-roll them in all sorts of things and add liqueurs to them according to your taste.
I wrote before about how difficult it was for Mr NQN and I to say "I Love You" to each other. That reminded me of a situation from back when I worked in an office. We were a typical "Office Space" company, a technology start up where very few had offices with walls and we'd find ourselves staring at neutral coloured woolly material covered partitions all day. Of course with partitions, we would hear everything that others around us were saying. Every morning I'd hear one of my buyer's pre work rituals: checking out the scores for Arsenal and browsing various adult entertainment websites (yes really).
One day he was speaking to a new sales rep and he accidentally ended off the call with the words "I Love You". He hung up the phone and I heard a groan. "Oh goddd noooo", he moaned head in hands as I meerkatted over the partition. "What is it?" I asked. "I accidentally told a sales rep I Love You". It seems that he was used to talking to his parents over the phone and was so used to ending off each phone call automatically with "I Love You" that he had accidentally let it slip to this sales rep that he barely knew. We of course gave him a lot of stick for it, she was quite a few years older than him and they were both single so any time she would ring I'd put her on hold and yell out if he'd like a sweet word to her. For his part, he'd take it good naturedly.
We always thought that he had just explained himself until it came to the Sydney Olympics in 2000."Umm can I have the day off work tomorrow? That sales rep has offered to take me to a day at the Olympics". Our jaws dropped. It seemed that this little slip of his tongue had netted him tickets to a prized Olympics event among other invitations on her arm (she was what we now know to be an early day Cougar). My how he had progressed in the world for uttering those accidental three words!
I do occasionally wonder what happened to my buyer and the sales rep. Are they still playing cougar and cub?
So tell me Dear Reader, what was the best present you ever received for Valentine's Day?
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