…is like pillaging without burning? No, that can’t be right…
But I do have a theory that if I don’t make somebody a birthday cake (note: cupcakes, cheesecakes, and pies are all perfectly acceptable alternatives), I don’t truly care about them. So for my dad’s birthday a few days ago, I made him the Peanut Butter Chocolate Dream Cake from Kris Holechek’s Have Your Cake and Vegan Too.
It’s a fairly standard chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling in between the layers and topped off with a chocolate-peanut butter ganache – garnish as desired. The recipe was easy to follow, and the cake easy to assemble; if and when I do it again, the only thing I’ll do differently is grease-and-cocoa the pans instead of greasing-and-flouring them, to avoid that flour residue (since it’s not frosted all over, it does kinda show).
And yes, I probably will make it again. Not only did the birthday boy love it, but it went over extremely well with my omnivorous coworkers, too. Such is the power of chocolate and peanut butter together.
The Witty Child 
Stunning!
Thank you! 🙂 I like desserts that don’t take a lot of effort to look good.
This looks like a big oreo!
Haha. Now that you mention it, it kinda does.