Pink Heart-shaped Cake

E stands for Esther and if you look upside down, it is a 3. For Esther's 3rd Birthday.

It is actually a zucchini brownie cake, since Esther is also an avid chocolate lover like me! :)

I managed to cut the cake in the shape of a lopsided heart (mama's advice for artistic flair: never strive to make the shape too geometric... always make it slightly uneven... this is a very impt piece of advice for me engineer).

Then I slathered on pink frosting. It was difficult trying to make the frosting pink. I didn't have red food colouring or whatever and actually intended to use my grenadine syrup, but in the end, I realised that it wasn't red enough and that it is too watery for frosting. So I used strawberry jam with cream cheese and butter and I sieved the whole thing to get rid of the bigger pieces of strawberry. It was pretty pink in the end, and sweet! I had to make the frosting sweet, because the cake wasn't -- and it is Domi's fault. She literally screamed for me to stop while I was adding the sugar! Due to her protests, I went against my better judgement and added waayyyy too little sugar! The only consolation is that it is even healthier!

After the pink frosting, I decorated the sides with small balls of roasted-almonds-in-bourbon-vanilla-cream from Lindt! I find them really irresistable! This is one reason why Aachen is so great! We have a Lindt factory and can buy the products at staff discount prices. And they also sell those pricey chocolates in 300g-, 500g-, or 900g-bags at a much lower price! I think I have devoured more Lindt in my couple of years in Aachen than other Germans in their entire lives in cities-with-no-Lindt-factory!