Matty's Better Than Sex Cake - Extravagant from Scratch

Ingredients:

2 jars of Caramel Sauce
Whipped Cream

Sugared Strawberries:
5 cups of Fresh Strawberries
1 1/2 cups of White Sugar
2 tsp of Vanilla

Cake:
4 (1 ounce) squares German chocolate
1/2 cup hot water
2 cups white sugar
1 cup shortening
4 egg yolks
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 pinch salt
1 tsp baking soda
4 egg whites

Hot Fudge Sauce:
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup butter
4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 2/3 cups evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt

Directions:

Sugared Strawberries:
-Cut strawberries into halves or slice size you prefer
-In a saucepan over medium high heat, combine strawberries, sugar and vanilla.
-Cook for about 5 mins, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens.
-Store in Tupperware and refrigerate until time to serve.

Cake:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
-Grease and flour 2 - 9 inch round pans.
-Melt the chopped German chocolate in 1/2 cup hot water, and set aside.
-In a large bowl, cream together the 2 cups sugar and shortening. Beat in 4 egg yolks until smooth. Next, stir in the buttermilk and vanilla.
-Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; mix into creamed mixture. Then, stir in the melted chocolate.
-In another bowl, whip egg whites to stiff peaks, fold into the batter.
-Divide the batter evenly between the two pans, and spread evenly.
-Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven.
-Cool cake in pans on wire racks.

Hot Fudge:
-In a large saucepan, combine the chocolate chips and butter.
-Cook and stir over low heat until melted.
-Gradually mix in the sugar and milk. Increase heat to a boil.
-Cook, stirring constantly, for 8 minutes.
-Remove from heat, and then stir in vanilla and salt.

Assembly:

-Heat up caramel sauce in sauce pan on low heat until warm.
-After 2 cakes has cooled, place 1st cake on platter and spread some of the caramel sauce on top and place 2nd cake on top.
-Using the handle of a long wooden spoon, poke many holes through both cake layers
-Pour caramel sauce in half the holes and hot fudge into other half-use rest of hot fudge to pour over the top of cake to cover top and drip down the sides
-Place cake in refrigerator to cool and harden fudge and caramel
-Slice cake, spoon sugared strawberries onto slice, and add whipped cream

Enjoy!!!

Matty's Better Than Sex Cake - Cheap N Easy

Ingredients:

2 boxes of German Chocolate Cake mix
2 jars of Hot Fudge Sauce
2 jars of Caramel Sauce
5 cups of Strawberries
Whipped Cream

Directions:

-Bake 2 cakes in 9 inch cake pans according to directions to cake mix box
-Cut Strawberries into halves or preferred size
-Heat up hot fudge sauce in microwave for 1 min then stir, then again for 1 min then stir, heat in this manner until fudge is hot and mailable
-Heat up caramel sauce in microwave for 1 min then stir, then again for 1 min then stir, heat in this manner until fudge is hot and mailable
-After 2 cakes has cooled, place 1st cake on platter and spread some of the caramel sauce on top and place 2nd cake on top.
-Using the handle of a long wooden spoon, poke many holes through both cake layers
-Pour caramel sauce in half the holes and hot fudge into other half
-use rest of hot fudge to pour over the top of cake to cover top and drip down the sides
-Place cake in refrigerator to cool and harden fudge and caramel
-Slice cake, spoon strawberries onto slice, and add whipped cream

Enjoy!!!

Heath Ledger's Last Movie

Heath Ledger died during the making of this movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam did not want to recast Heath Ledger's character and wanted to keep the scene's Ledger had done in the film. To do that he had to rewrite the script to allow the character to change appearances and the following actors stepped in to help Gilliam finish his movie, Johnny Depp, Collin Ferrel, and Jude Law. This movie looks visually stunning as all of Gilliam's movies have been and I can't wait to see it. Here is the Trailer...

Josh's Peanut Butter Pie

My friend Josh gave me this recipe that is based on a recipe by Emeril Lagasse. I must say that it is rich and so delicious. But, like fudge, make sure you eat just a little bit at a time. Trust me, it will be enough. ;p

Josh's Peanut Butter Pie

Ingredients:

1 baked 9-inch graham craker shell
8 oz cream cheese (at room temperature)
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
2 tbsp milk
1/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts
4 cups heavy cream (whipped with a little sugar to sweeten)
1 cup chocolate sauce
Chocolate shavings
Chopped roasted peanuts
Powdered sugar in shaker
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (cut up into 1/2 or 1/4 pieces)

Directions:

-Using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth.
-Add the peanut butter, milk, and peanuts. beat mixture until smooth
-Fold half of the whipped cream into the peanut butter/cheese mixture.
-Set aside the remaining whipped cream in the refrigerator.
-Put a layer of chocolate sauce on graham cracker crust.
-Spood the filling into the prepared pie shell.
-Refrigerate the pir for 1 hour or until the pie is set.
-Garnish pie with whipped cream, chopped peanuts, cholodate shavings, powdered sugar, and cut up Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
-Slice and Enjoy!!!

Freddy's baaaaack!!

New Line Cinema is rebooting their 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series. When I first head this I though, 'eh whatever' and quickly forgot about it. My interest in the reboot was sparked by the news that Jackie Earle Haley, the actor who played Rorschach in 'Watchmen', was chosen to take over the role of Freddy Krueger, previously embodied by Robert Englund. This news excited me because I loved Haley in Watchmen and he looks like he will have an interesting part in 'Shutter Island'. The last straw came this week, I have no choice now I have to see this movie, The teaser trailer was released and it looks freaking awesome. Here it is for those of you that would like to get sucked into another reboot like I just did. Enjoy.

Matty Update

Last time I wrote here I had gotten back together with my Girlfriend Dolly. Well, me writing here again should give you a clue....yeah, we broke up again. But this time it is for good. I still want to be friends with her, but I don't think she will be able to do that and date other guys at the same time. I don't want to miss out on a great friendship.

So, things are shaky for me at the moment. I am back at my parents house so that I can save money to start over. I was able to get a car, a cheap '91 Toyota Cellica ST. POS but runs and that is all I need right now. Once my bills are caught up I will be moving to Capitol Hill, Denver because it is close to my school (I am going to CU Denver for Electrical Engineering) and my brother lives there. It will be nice to see him on a daily basis again.

I wanted to try some changes in my life...I changed my scent, I bought Georgio Armani's new cologne for men, Diamonds, and I love it. I put out feelers to all my female friends to give me suggestions of what to get and it helped me out a lot in narrowing down the brands I wanted to look at. Thanks ladies!!

Well, that's it for now. I did start a Twitter account and if you wish to follow me you can look me up as 'MattyBare'