Happy Birthday Hubby!

Just wondering...does cake and coffee constitute a balanced meal? Hope so because I think I had it for at least two meals today. Don't judge because I know if you were at my house with this cake lying around, you too would convince yourself it is totally a balanced addition to any beverage, wine anyone?
So as I said it was my wonderful Barry's thirty-ish birthday yesterday, so of course I had to make him a wonderful birthday cake with all of his favorite ingredients! I had recently read this amazing gals blog which she said was referred to as being "calorie heavy" (aka my kind of recipes) and I had the idea to use her concept with a bit of a twist. So instead of using chocolate covered cherries as the filling, I used Reese's miniature peanut butter cups, and instead of doing just one layer, I figured why not two? So just in case you are having a hard time picturing, here is what it looked like. Please for the how-to, refer to Amanda's tutorial...she has a great one!

For the cake, I used just a basic butter cake recipe.

For the frosting between the layers I used a peanut butter buttercream:

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 stick of butter
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Finally for the frosting covering the cake I used a basic chocolate buttercream:

• 1 stick of butter
• 2/3 cup of cocoa
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 3 T. milk
• 1/4 tsp salt

Let me just tell you, this cake is pretty much DIVINE, however it is REALLY difficult to finish a whole piece, so my advice, set it on your kitchen table with a fork and just take a few bites every time you pass by it, that way you don't overdose! Happy baking, happier eating!