I used to make my husband (slim and trim) a four-layer Italian "tiramasu" cake drizzled with rum syrup and filled with raspberry jam and some kind of filling with those candied citrus fruit thingies used at Christmas. Forget what the frosting was. It took all day, and this was back when we had two little boys five years apart who were always running around nipping at each other and my ankles.
Then he quit smoking, gained weight, and he went on the Atkins diet, so carbs were out. He's maintaned the 50-lb weight loss for 30 years, so maybe I should consider making one again. I still have the recipe book... somewhere!
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