🌞One morning, when I was a child, I woke to see my mother standing in my bedroom doorway cradling an enormous boletus mushroom in her arms. 🍄‍🟫Don’t ask me how, but she’d managed to forage it in a mossy patch of the Appalachian forest that surrounded our Kentucky home. It’s one of my favorite core memories, my mother holding that giant boletus. I’d never seen anything so beautiful! That boletus sparked my lifelong love for mushrooms. So when Enchanted Living faeriemagazine decided to devote their spring issue to my favorite topic and asked me to create four brand-new original mushroom-themed desserts for it, I knew I wanted to re-create that memory for the first time. I ended up making this chocolate toadstool cake as an homage to my mother and to my love of mushrooms generally. It looks exactly like the boletus my mother was holding just down the road from where I’m writing this right now. You can imagine her surprised and delighted reaction when I presented my creation to her the ...