Chocolate cake with peanut butter filling

Chocolate and peanut butter is used a lot in recipes and dishes. One of my favorite ways to add them together is to make a moist chocolate cake with a sweet peanut butter filling.So that is what I did. No matter how good the filling is,no matter how pretty the cake is if you have a dry,burnt,unflavorful cake then you are screwed. Since the filling is not the that easy to make I used a box mix but if you want to use a homemade cake go right ahead. My favorite candy are reese's peanut butter cups.On Halloween when I went Trick-or-Treating if the people let you pick the candy that is hat I would pick. So I figured if they are so good as candy they would be amazing as frosting or filling.Man was I right (I am soooooooooooo smart) .But here is the real truth.The filling uses peanut butter not reese's. What you do is fill the cake but then put the chopped reese's on top of it.That really helps with texture and it is really good. I am not in the mood to explain in the anymore so make this and see for yourself. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ingredients:

Chocolate cake

Vanilla buttercream or canned icing

30 mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, chopped (more or less depending on the size of your cake)

Peanut Butter Filling (recipe below)

Directions:

Bake and cool cakes.  Fill with the peanut butter filling and chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Frost with the vanilla buttercream. (I like to do a “crumb coat” which is a very light coating of the buttercream that you let dry before doing a final coat.) Serve room temperature.

 

 Peanut butter frosting-

Ingredients-

 1 stick   butter, softened

1 cup smooth peanut butter

1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

1-2 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

Beat the butter, peanut butter, and cream cheese with a hand mixer (or a stand mixer) until light and fluffy. Slowly add the powdered sugar (about a cup at a time) and mix until incorporated. Add vanilla and 1 tablespoon milk. Mix until combined, adding more milk if needed for desired consistency.

Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Source-Crazy for Crust

 

Yield: will frost the top and sides of one 9×13 cake