{"id":18236,"date":"2015-02-25T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:06:43","slug":"chocolate-peanut-butter-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/chocolate-peanut-butter-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Peanut Butter Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Food-Header-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18240\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/chocolate-peanut-butter-birthday-cake\/pbcake\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PBCake.jpg?fit=640%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,497\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"PBCake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PBCake.jpg?fit=640%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PBCake.jpg?resize=640%2C497&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"PBCake\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PBCake.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PBCake.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My darling boy turns fifteen today, that&#8217;s one-five, people! I have <em>no<\/em> idea how this happened. One minute I was lugging around a diaper bag and the next, I was craning my neck to talk to him. When he isn&#8217;t eating us out of house and home, he&#8217;s a pretty sweet kid. He requested chocolate cake for his birthday, so I looked around and found this cake at Optimal Living &#8211; chocolate cake, peanut butter frosting, topped off with chocolate ganache.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/chocolate-peanut-butter-birthday-cake\/lrw15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LRW15.jpg?fit=640%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"LRW15\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LRW15.jpg?fit=640%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LRW15.jpg?resize=500%2C625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"LRW15\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LRW15.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LRW15.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Happy birthday Lloyd!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My darling boy turns fifteen today, that&#8217;s one-five, people! I have no idea how this happened. One minute I was lugging around a diaper bag and the next, I was craning my neck to talk to him. When he isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/chocolate-peanut-butter-birthday-cake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1238,4,2093],"tags":[3452,1179,1959,3130],"class_list":["post-18236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","category-news","category-photography-2","tag-15th-birthday","tag-chocolate","tag-peanut-butter","tag-the-boy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4K8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23346,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/03\/02\/chocolate-peanut-butter-mousse-cake\/","url_meta":{"origin":18236,"position":0},"title":"Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Cake","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We celebrated The Boy's birthday with pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw, Lay's Wavy chips, and finished it off with a chocolate peanut butter mousse cake. 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This frosting was the perfect compliment to the chocolate sour cream cake The Boy and I made to celebrate his birthday over the weekend. 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