Celebration of Chocolate

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Chocolate_mousse_ingredients

Chocolate chips, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla.
Five simple ingredients.
But. . .
mix them together in the proper proportions and they become. . .

Chocolatón!- an impossibly rich chocolate mousse. It's important that you pronounce it using a Spanish accent with an especially heavy emphasis on that last syllable. (Don't ask why. Just go with it. =D)

Chocolaton

Eric calls it Death by Chocolate.
At least that's what I think he said. It was hard to understand him with his mouth so full of mousse. ;-)

(The recipe is posted over at Babalú today along with the story of why Valentine's Day is a bittersweet holiday for me.)