One of the very best parts of my wedding was the cake. It was ugly (the horrible catering hall manager didn’t allow my tattooed, pierced, punk-rock florist to put flowers on it… but that’s a whole other story) and it was naked. But it was SO GOOD. It was chocolate or vanilla, maybe both, and had both a fudge and cheesecake filling layer in. Never, ever had I had a cake like that before.

Now our 1000th day of being married is coming up at the end of January and I want to celebrate it with a similarly awesome cake. I’m thinking this is an excellent time to cross off a life list item – “Learn to make a really great cake from scratch (with homemade frosting).”

I’ll worry about the ins and outs of it after the new year, but I wanted to put out there that if you happen to have a fabulous recipe for “cheese cake filling” (because it wasn’t cheesecake proper, it was like cheesecake pudding, or cheesecake custard or something that was cheesecake-like in flavor but then so wonderful and creamy and very UN like a cheesecake in texture) pass it on. Extensive googling has turned up nothing.