Homemade bithday classics

After much planning and creativity, Matt and I successfully made a homemade pizza and ice cream cake for Matt's birthday last week! For the pizza we got premade pizza dough (unprepared to tackle yeast...) and rolled it out on our pizza stone. I found a recipe for homemade pizza sauce which was easy and so good. We used all of Matt's favorite veggies and baked until golden brown crust perfection!

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Following the main course was Matt's favorite type of cake- Ice Cream cake. This was a result of my imagination and it actually turned out good! Inspired by Coldstone cakes, it started with a box of Dark Chocolate cake mix and a carton of while mint chocolate chip ice cream, and ended in a wonderful double decker masterpiece, decorating by me with the chocolate chips, and by Matt with the gummy candies. It took a few days to freeze all the layers and get the whole thing put together, but worked out really well. It tastes really good too which is a bonus because we are STILL eating it one week later! Maybe next year I'll try to figure out how to do a cake just half this size...

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This week is going to be a crazy work week for me, so we are pulling our second batch of Na's Pasta out of the freezer for the week. Such a nice treat! Plus after the climax of the homemade pizza and ice cream cake, I need to not push my luck! ;)