You can snicker at this cake

cause it's definitely not winning any beauty contests. But it has the potential for some great cake goodness.

I started with a layer of vanilla ice cream, followed by a layer of homemade caramel topped with peanuts, then a layer of chocolate cake. Repeat. Cover it all with dark chocolate ganache. Take the remaining ganache, whip it up with some more cream and dollop it on the top. Drop snickers candy bar slices on each dollop, and Happy Father's Day!

Things I learned while working on this cake:

1. Spreading warm drippy chocolate ganache over frozen cake and ice cream isn't very pretty. The ganache gets cold quick and/or melts the ice cream and makes a mess.
2. Trying to make a layer cake in an 8.5 inch springform pan with cake layers baked in 8 inch cake pans isn't very pretty. It makes for a lumpy cake. (For the record I thought my springform pan was just 8 inches. I bought it at a garage sale a few weeks ago and never measured it.)
3. No matter how soft and delicious caramel is when you make it by hand, it's hard to cut and eat when frozen in a cake.