Welcome to the reinstatement of Peanut Butter and Chocolate Saturdays for this year’s college football season! Technically today is International Bacon Day, but I did not realize this fact until after preparing the recipe for today. Otherwise it would’ve been a PB+Choc+BACON recipe. But I digress.

I am not sure what it more exciting, the prospect of watching college football all day every Saturday, or having an excuse to whip up baked goods involving the best food combination ever? Today I have the honor of being a bridesmaid in one of my best friends’ wedding and therefore will not be partaking in the day’s football festivities, but I will have an emergency stash of buckeye candies with me. It’s in Cleveland, OH after all, totally acceptable to bring a stash to the wedding.

To kick things off, I am sharing a layer cake with you today. Inside it is a malted marble cake, which gets frosted with a malted peanut butter frosting, with some crushed peanut butter malt balls in the middle layer, and topped with even more peanut butter malt balls! It that enough malt for you? My cake decorating skills still need some work, but hey you gotta make layer cakes to get better at them.

Oh and my Ohio State Buckeyes are pre-season ranked #2 in the AP poll. Kind of makes me nervous since we were ineligible for a bowl game last year, and therefore didn’t get a true feel for how good we were last year. Regardless I’m sure it’ll be an emotional season like always. After all we’re not crazy, we’re nuts! Hah ha, I crack myself up.

Two years ago: Stone Fruit Hand Pies