Yesterday was the munchkin's 2nd birthday. It was....less than awesome. She had a high fever most of the day and it got so bad at one point (103.7! yikes) we took her to the doctors where they did unspeakably awful things to her. It was terrible for everyone involved--certainly worse than my birthday a few years ago when I got both a dead rabbit from the dogs and jury duty from the state.

Anyway, we did try to make the best of it. Munch's favorite treat in the world is Reese's Peanut Butter cups and I was determined to make her something awesome related to said treat.

So, I made the only thing that could improve on a peanut butter cup.

(notice daddy's arm defending against the lightning-quick chocolate induced movements of a toddler)

What is it, you ask?

It is, my friends, a gigantic peanut butter cup.

Here it is shown with one of the reese's Big Cups for scale. I wish I had had a regular size pb cup for comparison but someone.....umm....ate them all.

She knew exactly what it was and dove right into it as soon as we served her up a slice.

I think she really liked it--there was even finger-licking.

As for the recipe and process, I didn't take pictures during the process (I was afraid of dismal failure--and who wants photos of that?) but I'll post a general step by step and recipe for the filling next week. It really wasn't hard to make though your life will certainly be easier if you have a heavy duty stand mixer, as the filling is quite hard to mix.