Chocolate, peanut butter, and caramel layer cake with vanilla bean buttercream

Remember when I said that homemade vegan caramel sauce was “perfect for drizzling on a cake”, perhaps “a certain cake which you may be seeing in the future”?

Yeah. Well. Here you are.

Tropical beach birthday cake

Upon returning to good ol’ New England after my trip to the Bahamas a few weeks ago, I had two things on my mind: 1) ugh I want to be back there under the palm trees and swimming in the deep blue sea and eating guava cheesecake ice cream, and 2) it is my brother’s birthday tomorrow and GOOD GOD I’VE GOT TO MAKE A CAKE!