
Is there anything more fun than creating birthday desserts for people? Even people who rarely eat dessert (clearly I am NOT one of them, ha) tend to splurge on their birthday...which usually means they choose their very favorite dessert and enjoy it then. I absolutely love making birthday desserts for friends and family. There's nothing better than taking requests and then fulfilling them for their day of celebration!
My sister Julia doesn't have a classic dessert that she requests for her birthday each year. Instead, she usually just asks for something with both peanut butter and chocolate, her favorite dessert combination. She's now lived in St. Louis for four years and I've managed to make a different chocolate peanut butter concoction each year. Year 1 was the Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte. Year 2 was a Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. Year 3 was the Reese's Fudge Pie. All included excessive amounts of both peanut butter and chocolate. Needless to say, all were awesome.
I wasn't sure if I could top any of the previous desserts, until I realized I hadn't yet made her a chocolate and peanut butter ice cream cake. If you know our family, you know we love ice cream above ALL other desserts, so it only made sense to combine her chocolate peanut butter infatuation with the ice cream obsession. In a perfect world I would have made my own homemade hot fudge and ice cream, but I'm struggling to stay on top of work and school and everything else this month and honestly, using the store bought stuff was just as good (and way easier!).