Piggies Unite: Chocolate Salon Anniversary

Two years ago today, Andy and I got married!! At our wedding, we had the one thing I would say I was kind-of "bridezilla" about: I wanted, no, I needed, to have the Chocolate and Coffee Divas (from San Luis Obispo) do a full-on, giant spread of chocolately goodness, with every imaginable item that you could dip into the dark or white chocolate fountains that we had there. It was fabulous and I LOVED it! I hope our guests enjoyed it as much as we did!

So, it is only right that we celebrated today by going to the 4th Annual Los Angeles Luxury Chocolate Salon this afternoon. We "forced" our friends Michael and April to go with us and the feasting began! When we walked into the convention center, the smell of delicious chocolate came over us and we started in! There were around 20 vendors, all of them offering samples of their goodies, ranging anywhere from truffles, to chocolate bars, to gourmet ding dongs... oh yeah... gourmet ding dongs. I'll get to that in a minute. In the meantime, enjoy a little chocolate porn.

Wait a minute.. did you say "gourmet ding dong"? Yes, my friend, I did say those delightful words. So, I can't take credit for finding these gems. I wish I could. But, no, Andy overheard the vendor saying "red velvet gourmet ding dong" and he had his wallet out right away. The woman was kind enough to cut the ding dong into four pieces and then we all went to town on the thing. Imagine the moistest red velvet cake, with about an inch of the most amazing vanilla buttercream I have ever had in my life, wedged right in the middle. This buttercream was so damn good, it had the consistency of cheesecake. In fact, we thought it was cheesecake until the executive chef asked us how we liked his buttercream! Whaaa??? Yeah, man, your buttercream is CRAZY good!! Oh! I almost forgot: this whole cake was dipped in dark chocolate!! COME ON!! At one point, I looked over at Michael and he was staring off into space, as if he was having some kind of religious experience or something. Yeah, it was pretty much like that.