sans rival

... after a few tries of making desserts, hubby realized that I have improved my dessert making skills... he requested that I make his all-time fave, sans rival. It is sort of like a cake made out of four (or more) layers of almond merengue, sandwiched in French buttercream, topped with almonds. Hah! Little did I know how time-consuming this dessert was going to be...

... finding a recipe was easy enough, trying to understand the complicating procedure had me reading the recipe for a couple of days, it was like trying to decipher morse code, there were a couple of baking terms that I had to search and find out what I was meant to do but reading it made it even harder to understand so I had to youtube it, I find it easier to understand if I saw what I was meant to do... it took me a week to get the nerve to try making it... with the weekend coming up, I bought all the ingredients with the plan to make it...

... weekend came and we conquered! It took us (hubby, the kids & I) at least 3 to 4 hours to make, it was a labour of love and in the end, they all loved it... the next day the kids got sick (there was a vomit bug going on around school during the week) and they blamed the cake!... haven't made it since then... will try to make it again, soon!