The Christmas Cake That Wasn't

I know I have been a little absent for the month of December (1 post?? Really??) but I did want to share our (almost) Christmas dessert disaster.

After much deliberation, I decided to make this recipe from Smitten Kitchen. After all, I have had amazing results with all the recipes I have use in the past (lemon ricotta pancakes anyone?). So this time I set out to make a glorious, amazing, tasty chocolate peanut butter cake. The only thing is…I didn’t follow Deb’s instructions. Well at least not totally. See, I thought it might have been overkill to grease the pan, then put in parchment paper, and then grease the parchment paper. I was wrong.

So I ended up with something that looked like this:
(Please excuse the photo quality, after two separate trips to the grocery store for overlooked ingredients, at 9pm on December 23rd I wasn’t really in the mood).

But since I was the only one bringing dessert for Christmas Eve dinner, and I didn’t think that going out AGAIN was an option, I decided to make do with what I had…even if it was a pile of chocolate cake.

So I pressed the cake into the bottom of a glass dish, topped with the peanut butter frosting, and chocolate peanut butter glaze.

They actually turned out really good. They are INCREDIBLE rich, so we had to learn that they needed to be eaten as bars, and not take a huge cake slice, but once we learned that they disappeared quickly! (but not before I took one last picture!!)