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Tiramisu Torte

“Have your cake and eat it too.”

Ingredients

1 white cake mix (or Angel Food cake mix, though I prefer the white cake) 8 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) 2 cups chilled Cool Whip 2/3 cup powdered sugar 6 tablespoons amaretto (or coffee) 3-4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 1 Symphony Hershey’s almonds & toffee chocolate bar Handful of slivered almonds

Instructions

Prepare the cake by the box instructions. While the cake is in the oven, start on the frosting.

1. Using the electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.
2. Add 1 cup whipping cream, 2/3 cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of amaretto/coffee, and cocoa powder.
3. Beat until fluffy and smooth. Fold in remaining whip cream.

By now the cake should be done. Take it out of the oven and let it cool.

1. On the first cake layer, sprinkle 2 tablespoons of amaretto/coffee on top.
2. Frost the top of the bottom cake, then top with chunks of Symphony bar.
3. Add the second cake on top.
4. Sprinkle the last 2 tablespoons of amaretto/coffee on top.
5. Frost the entire cake.
6. Top with chunks of Symphony bar and almond slivers.
7. Using the zester, add on some chocolate shavings for decoration.

Time Savers

• Use a store-bought cake
• Skip the chocolate shavings
• Use bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips instead of chocolate bar chunks

The Biggest Days

Grey’s Anatomy, for the first time in a while, got me emotionally invested into the story. I fell in love with the characters again, mostly because of Isabelle Steven’s opening and closing quotes.

“You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be big ones are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It’s the regular days, the ones that start out normal, those are the days that end up being the biggest. And today was the wedding, it was beautiful. Perfect.”

“You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone, the day you get your heart broken, the day you meet your soul mate, the day you realize there’s not enough time because you want to live forever. Those are the biggest days, the perfect days. You know… it was a beautiful day.”

Though the theme was a common one – never take life, the little things and the big things, for granted – it was done well and helped revive a little bit of the show.