And it oozes caramel, which ain't all bad

As boodaddy's reward for winning nearly every Movie Line Friday in recent memory, I'm honoring his request for details on our Christmas dessert.

You may have noticed that I'm an advocate for most food-within-a-food items. I'm especially fond of meat-wrapped-in-meat.

Chicken cordon bleu? Yep.

Crabmeat-stuffed orange roughy? Uh-huh.

Cocktail weenies wrapped in bacon? All day long.

I've even had bacon-wrapped chicken livers. Not my favorite, but it gets my respect.

Of course, you could wrap a dirty diaper in bacon and it would taste good.

Anyhow, all of that is to say I like it when you put food inside other foods. So Wife already had things going her way before she even started cooking our Christmas dinner dessert - a Cheesecake-Stuffed Dark Chocolate Cake.

In short, it was a chocolate cake with chunks of cheesecake between the layers. It was one of the best desserts I've tasted in my life. And since I don't have much of a sweet tooth, I have pretty high standards for desserts.

Basically, with respect to the cake, Wife brought it.

And I liked it so much that - even though it would have been the death knell for any shred of masculinity to which this blog is clinging - I considered posting the recipe here.

I'm going to say that again because I'm still baffled and offended by the unmanliness of that statement: I considered posting the recipe here.

What's wrong with me?

Then I opened the cookbook and realized how much typing would be involved. And it should go without saying that someone who's into meat-stuffed-meats and cake-stuffed-cakes isn't really a person you'd expect to go the extra mile.

Particularly when it comes to physical activities like, say, typing.

If you want to make the cake, it's in the Christmas with Southern Living 2007 cookbook. And since it's after Christmas 2007, the book is marked down from $29.95 to $9.95. Not bad.