Duuuuuuudes, this cake is good. So good.
When I saw this S'more Layer Cake recipe in the Smitten Kitchen cookbook, I knew I had to make it, but I needed an occasion. Luckily it didn't take much convincing for Tim to agree that his birthday was just that occasion.
Plus, this recipe required the use of a kitchen torch, which I always secretly wanted to buy, but could never really justify. Heh heh... cool... fire! fire! fire! Now I have to plan some cooking around that new flaming utensil.
A moist graham cracker flavored layer cake with a milk chocolate ganache filling and toasted marshmallow frosting... what's not to love?
The cake itself is made by processing a bunch of graham crackers until they turn into a flour (thanks to Amy for bringing American graham crackers to us across the world!). Buttermilk (or in my case milk plus sour cream) keeps it super moist (I actually had to cook my layers a few minutes longer to get them cooked through, but that may be my wonky oven).
Super rich milk chocolate ganache in the middle mimics the traditional Hershey's bar (I kinda wished there was more of that- maybe next time a layer of it under the frosting would do the trick?) and fluffy, sticky, marshmallowy frosting (not dissimilar from the frosting I made on this cake) is dolloped on top and torch toasted to perfection.
We ate the cake early, the weekend before his birthday, because Tim had to attend and present at a conference this week. Don't feel too bad for him, though, because the conference is in Bali (life is tough, eh?):
