Warning: Do NOT Read if Hungry or Dieting!

My Husband just had his Birthday, so I (as is becoming tradition for all family birthdays) made a fun cake for him. He asked for chocolaty caramely goodness, and here you have it:

Chocolate Toffee Cake

I love making desserts from scratch, just feels soul satisfying to me somehow. This cake was made with an awesome base chocolate cake recipe, then the fun began. I added dark chocolate chips into the batter, put a layer of caramel on top, frosted it, then covered the top in sliced almonds, toffee bits, chocolate shavings and drizzled it with more caramel. Oh my, this is truly a death by chocolate type of cake. I tend to like layer cakes better, but as I was beginning to make this cake, I realized that I don’t even own a set of cake pans! How can this be?! Then I remembered that each time I have made a layer cake in the past, it has been while visiting for my father-in laws birthday, so I borrowed cake pans…this must be remedied before another birthday strikes! Here are a couple more pics of desserts past…try not to drool on the keyboard.