Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl happily in love. He loved chocolate and cheesecake and peanut butter and coffee and luckily for him she loved to bake. The year they had been married she baked him a chocolate caramel cheesecake for his birthday. The second year another cheesecake this time with brownie squares in it. The third year an epic chocolate peanut butter cake. The fourth year an espresso chiffon cake with fudge frosting. And then a month later they had a baby and it seems like five years later she baked him a birthday cake and that was only because she was putting it off and didn’t want to pack for their move. I’m not saying that if you like homemade birthday cake you should consider not having kids (oh no!) but I’m not saying that either you know?
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The 'I Want Chocolate Cake' Cake | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman
Things get a little better from there. She threw one of these together the following year when they had a one-month-old which is a testament to the ease of that recipe and also realistically the quality of the replacement baby holders we had on hand. And this year? Well it was a day late. Luckily because this could be their House Gif no one minded. Because any day that ends with cake is better than one without.
There is so much to love here. Instead of using store-bought chocolate waffles that I can never find I made some but not my usual recipe. I love it it is amazing but it also has so much butter in it that when I did the math to scale it up to cake size it was crazy even by my butter-happy standards. Instead I used King Arthur's recipe and I will never use another recipe again; with a few tweaks (technically the recipe is as good as it gets) it exceeded all my chocolate waffle hopes and dreams. And then I made giant cake-sized cookies instead of tiny ones and it is the best thing since refrigerator cake. For the filling I made peanut butter whipped cream and I'm sorry but it is going to ruin your life. I had serious doubts about the ability of whipped cream to bring out the nuance of the peanut butter and they were both wrong. This whipped cream is wonderfully peanut buttery without any textural compromises and together this cake manages to be dead simple yet exceed all of our refrigerator cake hopes and dreams.
I'm definitely behind on sharing things I do outside of this site. I've re-added the (needs updating and tweaking but is mostly intact) Events page under the More link above. Relevant for the next few months though:
