It Got Chocolate-y Up in Here

For last week's attempt at something that could resemble "Irish Night," which probably had very little Irish about it except for the Guinness, there were some desserts that I did not get around to posting.

First off, a Kahlua cake:

Why Kahlua cake? Because I liked the idea of doing something with Bailey's Irish Cream but didn't have a handy dessert. And it's an easy jump to go from Irish Cream to Kahlua, especially if you've got coffee on your mind.

Also, I dug out the recipe for Guinness Milk Chocolate ice cream from David Leibovitz's The Perfect Scoop. Now, that was some good tasting chocolate ice cream with a whole different taste sensation. It worked and was another easy ice cream to create.

Third dessert item: Ben Phillis made his famous peanut butter sandwiches, which are an incredibly tasty homemade version of what, for me, is my favorite Girl Scout cookie: the Do-Si-Dos.

And, as you'll see on this sample of one of the dessert plates just before it was greedily consumed, there was also chocolate chess pie, courtesy of Emily Satterfield.