Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, peanut butter cup cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Set aside on wire rack and let cool before removing from pans. For the frosting: In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the vanilla frosting and peanut butter. Assemble the Cake: If your cakes baked up uneven or have domed on top, level off the tops.
Peanut Butter Cup Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Peanut Butter Cup Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have peanut butter cup cake using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Cup Cake:
- Make ready Batter
- Prepare 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Get 1 (16 oz) package light brown sugar
- Get 1/2 cup butter, softened
- Get 3 large eggs
- Make ready 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 (8 oz) container sour cream
- Make ready 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Take 1 cup hot water
- Prepare Peanut Butter Frosting
- Take 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups creamy peanut butter
- Make ready 4 cups powdered sugar
- Take 1/4 cup milk
- Get 2 1/2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
- Take as needed Reeses candy for decoration
Everything you love about Reese's peanut butter cups is in this cake. If I had to pick an ultimate favorite dessert flavor, it would have to be chocolate and peanut butter. TIPS FOR MAKING RESSE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUP CAKE: I like to use margarine in the frosting for this recipe for one main reason. Because of the high vegetable oil content in margarine, I found it helps to keep this frosting soft and creamy.
Instructions to make Peanut Butter Cup Cake:
- Spray a pan with baking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt chocolate chips. (Microwave at 30 second intervals until melted, stir). Set aside.
- Using an electric mixer. beat butter and brown sugar at medium speed for 5 minutes.
- Beat in eggs one at a time
- Beat in melted chocolate just until combined
- Whisk together flour, baking soda. and salt
- Add flour, alternating with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture
- Beat in vanilla extract
- With mixer on low speed, gradually add in hot water (it will look watery)
- Divide cake batter evenly into 3 cake pans
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cake is firm when gently pressed on top. Let cool for 10 mins then remove from pans to cool completely.
- To make frosting: Beat butter and peanut butter until smooth and creamy
- Beat in half the powdered sugar and half the milk
- Beat in remaining powdered sugar. remaining milk, instant pudding mix
- Place one cake layer on a cake stand or serving platter. Spread frosting on top, layer another cake, frost, layer last cake and frost. I reserved 3/4 cup of frosting to decorate.
- Decorate with Reeses candy!
But if you are just totally adverse to using margarine, please feel free to use real butter. Peanut butter cup cake roll is the perfect cake for peanut butter and chocolate lovers. This easy cake roll recipe is rich chocolate cake filled with creamy peanut butter filling. It's topped with chocolate ganache and covered in peanut butter cups! Peanut butter cake topped with rich peanut butter icing will become a crowd-pleaser among your friends and family who love peanut butter..
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