Slices of Life

Ian always requests some combination of peanut butter/chocolate for his birthday cake and this year he added that he wanted some Heath in there too. We settled on a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and I added a layer of Heath bits in between the layers as well on top of the cake then finished the decorations off with some Reese's minis.    It was a huge hit!  I used my standard/favorite chocolate cake recipe:   For the Cake: 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 3 large eggs 1 cup buttermilk (We used 1 cup of milk with 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar mixed together) 1 cup warm water 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 tsp. vanilla extract.   For the Frosting: 2 sticks butter, at room temperature 1 cup  creamy conventional peanut butter  (all natural peanut butter gives it a weird texture and taste) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 Tablespoons milk (whatever kind you prefer...