A good chocolate cake recipe can save your marriage. That’s what I heard once on a talk-show. I don’t know if that is a bit exaggerated, but nevertheless… having a good chocolate cake recipe is certainly a bonus for cheering up the bad days.
This weekend was the beginning of the deer hunting season. Each year my husband and his brothers and their son’s get together and go deer hunting. They meet in a small cabin on a lake that two to of the brothers own. This cabin is located next to state land that is opened to hunting.
Each year they plan the same menu. The first night they have a fish fry, the second evening they grill steaks and the third evening they have spare ribs and sauerkraut. They also have chili and soup for lunch, and for breakfast they have boiled eggs and toast.
Each year my husband brings the boiled eggs, a huge pot of chili and all the sweets. The first year we were married I used a chocolate cake recipe that has a can of cherry pie filling in it. This cake is one that my mother would make because is was easy to make and it made a very large cake. This particular chocolate cake recipe has a chocolate frosting that is made with melted semi sweet chocolate and powdered sugar. When my husband came home from that first hunting trip he told me that the guys have decided that the chocolate cake recipe was now going to be part of their annual menu. They all thought that the cake was great.
Each year the first week of November brings the preparation for deer camp. The blaze orange clothing goes out on the clothes line to air out, rifles are sighted in and I start making chili and baking the chocolate cake recipe and granola bars. The bars have changed throughout the years but the chocolate cake recipe has remained the same with the exception of one year. That year I thought that the guys might be getting tired of the same cake, so I used a different recipe. By complete coincidence the guys did not shoot any deer that year. They blamed the lack of deer of the break in tradition regarding the cake. I have never switched recipes again and they have shot deer each year since.
Some people are very against hunting, but I am glad that my husband has the time that he spends with his brothers and nephews each year. It is more about getting together and spending time than it is about the hunting. During that time I get together with my sister-in-laws and go to a local community celebration. We look forward to getting together also. We do not have any set menus or a lucky chocolate cake recipe, but we do enjoy each other’s company.
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