Banana-Chocolate Chip Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

I was flipping through Bon Appetit magazine and came across their recipe for a banana-chocolate chip cake with peanut butter frosting.  It looked really good in the picture and was a flavor combination that I've never seen before, so I decided to give it a try.  For anyone interested in making this themselves, you can get the recipe if you follow this link: http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2012/10/banana-chocolate-chip-cake-with-peanut-butter-frosting

The final product came out like this delicious looking cake.

It started like this.  The cake itself is kind of like a chocolate chip banana bread and is tasty on its own.

The cake is dense enough that it stays together when layering.  The frosting was really good too and easy to spread onto the cake.

I saved some of the chocolate chips from the bag to decorate on top of the cake.  Here's a picture of how it looks with a slice cut out.

And here is the slice.  It tasted rich and decadent and I'm sure anyone who is a fan of peanut butter and banana sandwiches would love it.  Also, did I mention the smell, because it smelled delicious.

Ants?!

I went to a picnic today with my neighbours and made some cupcakes for it.  I took the basic idea from the book "What's new, cupcake?"  A constant visitor of picnics is our friend the ant.  Also, my neighbourhood has had quite an infestation of ants this summer, which made it a bit more appropriate.  I flipped one of my cupcakes upside-down to make an ant hill with brown sugar for the dirt.  The rest were covered in green frosting with some "grass" as piped icing.  The ants themselves are made of three Junior Mints with black icing for legs and antennae.  In any case, they were popular with my neighbours and earned me a hug.