Spumoni Cake

For Dan Regelski

Cake: Hershey's chocolate cake. One layer of pistachio icing with crushed pistachios. One layer of Cremolata buttercream with almonds. And iced with a chocolate buttercream frosting.

Details: Pink piping icing, crushed pistachio, whole pistachios.

In Staten Island, there's a pretty famous location for purchasing ices in the summertime called "Ralphs Ices." People go nuts for these ices in the summertime. The line goes on and on. And the Italian people wait and wait.

The most Italian of those ices would be the Spumoni: a blend of chocolate ice, cremolata ice and pistachio ice.

And the biggest Italian supporter of this flavor? My best friend Dan. He was turned on to ices by me years ago and to this day, now living together in Staten Island, we enjoy spumoni on the regular.

So for his birthday I decided experimenting with making a Spumoni flavored cake!