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Holiday desserts from Fishtown's new Cake Life Bake Shop; A scoop that powers through rock solid ice cream

Dessert for your holiday party? Solved. Here's a holiday party power move: Offer to bring dessert, then walk in with the Black Forest cake from the new Cake Life Bake Shop in Fishtown. This three-layer chocolate cake is tiered with chocolate ganache, Kirs

Black Forest cake by Cake Life Bake Shop in Philadelphia.
Black Forest cake by Cake Life Bake Shop in Philadelphia.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer

Dessert for your holiday party? Solved.

Here's a holiday party power move: Offer to bring dessert, then walk in with the Black Forest cake from the new Cake Life Bake Shop in Fishtown. This three-layer chocolate cake is tiered with chocolate ganache, Kirsch-soaked Luxardo cherries, and vanilla bean-Kirsch whipped cream - for a decidedly boozy, adult-only effect - and topped with the bling of a glitter-covered cherry. Holiday orders (also a cookie tree or box) by 4 p.m. Dec. 18; picked up Dec. 23, 3 to 7 p.m. or Dec. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Samantha Melamed
Black Forest cake, $42 for an eight-inch cake (serves 16) at Cake Life Bake Shop, 1306 Frankford Ave., 215-278-2580, cakelifebakeshop.com

Stocking stuffer alert

Top your dessert with a scoop of ice cream, aided by Zeroll, a scoop made of aluminum with a heat-conductive liquid core that helps it glide through even a frozen-solid tub of ice cream. - S.M.
Zeroll Original Scoop, $18.50 at Zeroll.com

This item has been upated to correct the price of the Black Forest Cake.