Ant Bite Cake

We moved into the hostel over the weekend. On Wednesday our cook, Hanatu, made us the most delicious and moist chocolate cake…if she cooks like this all the time I am in trouble!!! (I think my friend Missy and I may take tennis lessons so we can get some exercise because our cooks are so good!) Hanatu has cooked at the hostel for 17 years and she does a wonderful job.

Anyhow, we had guests over for dinner and we all enjoyed the cake. After they left I put foil on the cake and left it on the counter.

Thursday morning when I went into the kitchen there were ants crawling all over the cake!!!! Oh, imagine my disappointment!! Plus, I felt awful that I had ruined Hanatu’s delicious cake. Why didn’t I put it in the refrigerator?

So when Hanatu arrived I greeted her and apologized for ruining the cake. She said no problem, that she would put the cake in the oven, heat it up and the ants would flee, making the cake edible again. OK…I’m sure that your first thought is “Alycia, don’t tell me you ate the cake after ants had been all over it…gross…just throw it out.”

Well, I am happy to say that all the ants departed the cake and we ate it…every last bit. I was assured by my sister-in-law that it was perfectly safe. We even invited our neighbors over to enjoy the cake with us and their kids loved it…especially with a glass of powdered milk (fresh milk is very expensive here so we used powdered milk most of the time). We did let them know about the ants, but they didn’t mind. So, I’ve been calling it ant bite cake…a little crunchy but still so good (ok… JK about the crunchy part).