Jude- Confession time. The cake is not nearly as complicated a process as it seems. If you want to use purchased vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce that cuts a great deal of prep time out and the cakes really are deceptively simple. Give it a shot! You’ll be shocked how impressive it looks with very little effort!

Holler- Thanks for popping by. You’re making me blush! And I’d love to tell you we saved you a slice, but one cake and seven hungry people? I’m afraid that cake didn’t see the sunset. However, it was easy enough to make (don’t let my long-windedness scare you off it) that I’d happily make it again. Three out of my five sons requested it for their birthday cake. That will make a refreshing change from the usual “Please make me a cake shaped like a globe with accurate airbrushed continents, Mom,” and “Can I please have a 15 layer high chocolate cake made to look like a giant sequoia?”