Well, there were door prizes, and can you believe it? I won one of them! My ticket was drawn for the chocolate fountain. (I hope I don't get a bunch of crazies coming out of the woodwork now, claiming to be related to me and trying to get a piece of my good fortune. You know how these things go...)
I brought said chocolate fountain home and, in the eyes of my children, was immediately transformed into the coolest person on the planet. Even cooler than iCarly and Heinz Doofenshmirtz. After considerable begging, pleading, and offering of very pretty pleases with cherries on top, we commenced to melting chocolate.
I must admit, I too was excited to unleash the flow of delicious, melty goodness. The chocolate would flow like wine. Beautiful women would instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. It was going to be grand.
So how did it go? Perhaps I'll just let the picture speak for itself.
Well, it may have resembled a sludgy tar pit more than a scrumptious fountain. But the kids still claimed it was "the best night EVER!" It's hard to be too disappointed in chocolate...even if it doesn't quite turn out the way you'd hoped!
4 comments:
Awesome.
I guess that just proves chocolate falls into the same category as pizza and s*x, with the wise old adage that says 'Even if it's BAD ____, it's still ____!' ;-)
Did you use choco chips for your chocolate base? Did you add oil? Or, did it come with a bag of already liquid chocolate? My cousin has a fountain and getting the right consistency of chocolate is always the hardest part (along with getting it to flow evenly).
But, I say that the next book club party should be at your place and we can whip out the fountain--I love those things! And I'm with your kids, even with the fail, it would be considered a great night!
Kristi, the directions said to add oil, and i tried to add a little bit, but it was really grossing me out to dump that much oil in! I think next time I might try with condensed milk or something less gross. And we should definitely have a chocolate fountain book club party! Books and chocolate, yay!
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