Nari's Birthday Cake

So I have a friend here in Vegas whose boyfriend recently had a birthday.  She needed a helping hand and I offered to make the cake.  It's been a while since I had a good project and it was a nice little challenge.  Nari is a music guy and rather artsy.  His favorite color is red and I wanted to make a bit of an artsy cake that at least was unique to him.  I made a 3 tier, 7 layer, marble cake.  I apologize for not having photos of the checkerboard bottom, but I wasn't there when it was opened.  The fondant on the cake is FondX, which tastes like the center of an Oreo, and the icing was chocolate cream cheese (from my recipe previously posted).

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie update

So a while ago I posted my favorite and personal chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Recently I made it using butter instead of crisco and here is the difference: using crisco you get crunchy cookies with a soft inside and using butter you get flatter, chewy cookies.