So, yesterday (and today) was (is) my birthday. Gotta love being a Leap Year baby! ;) Immediately following my only class of the day - compounding lab - I drove 3 1/2 hours to spend my birthday with my family in Pittsburgh. My mom is a bit under the weather, so we had a nice night in just relaxing and spending time together. Of course, as soon as I got home, I got to work on assembling my birthday cake. I had baked the cake layers earlier in the week and froze them so that they'd be all set for when I got home - defrosted but still cold - so I just had to make the filling and frosting to get it all assembled.
Because I'm a huge fan of chocolate, I decided on a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, but I wanted the filling to be a bit different. I ended up going with a chocolate hazelnut filling using homemade hazelnut butter just whipped in the chocolate frosting I used for the outside. This cake is so, so rich, but so perfect for a birthday. It's definitely not the healthiest of cakes, being pretty full of sugar, but I made slight adaptations to make it a little bit better. It's definitely still an indulgence, but I wouldn't have it any other way for my birthday.
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