Sweets
Sweets

Peanut Butter Cup Birthday Cake

My sister just passed a landmark birthday and her gift request from me was a hand-made peanut-butter-cup cake. She is crazy for peanut butter, but scaling up a Reese’s to feed 20 people was a bit of a challenge. I’m not much of a baker (and my penmanship sucks) so Rachel helped me out a lot with this cake. Mad props to her, yo. By the time we were done, it looked like a buttercream grenade had gone off in the kitchen and my hand mixer smelled like burning. But, everyone loved this cake, so something must have gone right.

Velvet Hazelnut Gelato

This dessert is so good that you’ll make an “ooo” face when you eat it. The silkiness of this gelato comes not from some mysterious culinary secret, but from the inclusion of lots and lots of fat. There’s no two ways around it, folks: great ice cream is heavy (iced) cream. I’m confident that your guests can look past your nutritional indiscretions for a rare treat like this.