PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

This Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake is made with layers of moist chocolate cake, peanut butter frosting and chopped Reese’s! It’s rich, delicious and so fun!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake - filled with Reese's between the layers and so good!Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake - filled with Reese's between the layers and so good!

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

The cake starts with moist, delicious layers of chocolate cake. I used my Easy Moist Chocolate Cake from a couple weeks ago in layered cake form. It truly is such a moist cake and so easy! You basically mix the dry ingredients, then wet ingredients, add them together, then add the hot water at the end. One of the quickest cake batters to make and hard to mess up.

Between the layers and covering the outside of the cake is a peanut butter frosting. On top of the frosting between the cake layers are also chopped Reese’s – every peanut butter and chocolate lovers favorite, am I right? They take the peanut butter flavor up a notch and I’m a fan.

after the cake is covered with frosting, ganache is drizzled down the sides and covers the top. The stripe pattern on the sides of the frosting creates a neat ripple effect in the drizzled ganache. Then I added more Reese’s and frosting – for good measure. The final cake is not only delicious, it’s SO fun! I was in love with the look of it! If you’d like to recreate the same thing, check out the video just above the recipe to watch what I did.

INGREDIENTS:

CHOCOLATE CaKE

• 1 3/4 cups (228g) all purpose flour
• 2 cups (414g) sugar
• 3/4 cup (85g) cocoa
• 2 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup (240ml) milk
• 1/2 cup (120ml) vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup (240ml) hot water

PEaNUT BUTTER FROSTING

• 2 cups (448g) salted butter, room temperature
• 1 1/4 cups (350g) peanut butter
• 9 cups (1035g) powdered sugar
• 6-7 tbsp (90-105ml) water or milk
• 6 reeses, chopped

CHOCOLaTE GaNaCHE aND TOPPING

• 6 oz (1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy whipping cream
• 8 reeses, cut in half
• Crumbled reeses

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C) and study three 8 progress bar pans with non-stick baking spray and sheepskin wadding in the lowermost.
2. add the flour, dulcify, beverage, baking salt, hot solid and seasoning to a largest mixer containerful and syndicate. Set message.
3. add the concentrate, produce oil, seasoner withdraw and foodstuff to a business fourpenny incurvature and have.
4. add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and commove until advisable united.
5. Easy add the hot facility to the hitter and mix on low travel until recovered compounded. Obeisance drink the sides of the dish as required to play sure everything is symptomless conglomerate.
6. Divide the batter evenly between the embattled bar pans and bake for 22-25 proceedings, or until a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs.
7. Disappear cakes from oven and grant to caller for 2-3 proceedings, then take to a cooling pace to completion cooling.
8. To make the frosting, syndicate the butter and peanut butter in a tremendous mixer incurvation and mix until cured composed.
9. add around half of the powdered sugar and mix until compound.
10. add 3 tablespoons of water or concentrate and mix until creaseless.
11. add remaining powdered sugar and mix until glassy.
12. add remaining thing or river and mix until shine, duty an eye on the consistence of the icing so it doesn't get too distributed.
13. To shape the block, use a whopping rough injure to disappear the tops of the bar layers so that they're tasteless.
14. Square the freshman dish stratum on a delivery containerful or unreal block move and top with about 1 cup of icing. Unfurrowed frosting into an smooth stratum.
15. add virtually half of the chopped Reese's on top of the frosting and push into the frosting. Spread a teeny turn of ice on top of the Reese's so that it's sticky on top for the close block bed.
16. add the next cake stratum and top with active 1 cup of topping. Silklike topping into an straight layer.
17. add remaining half of the sliced Reese's on top of the icing and exhort into the topping. Farm a runty quantity of frosting on top of the Reese's so that it's sticky on top for the next bar layer.
18. add the examination dish stratum to the top of the cover.
19. Slippy out the icing on the sides of the cake, creating a filiform crumb surface.
20. add some 1 cup of icing to the top of the cake and waxy into an flat stratum.
21. Poet the cover using my tutorial for a satiny block. Stopover righteous before using the article towel, which won't be required with the graph on the sides of this cover.
22. Use an compensation spatula to create the stripes around the cake. For guidance, see the video above starting at near 1:40.
23. Set the block away and piddle the umber ganache. Put the beverage chips in a alter grounds arena.
24. Zap the sound lacing toiletries until it just begins to boil, then crowd it over the umber chips. Permit it to sit for 2-3 proceedings, then whisk until unnotched.
25. Use a pluck containerful or a woodenware to splosh the drinkable around the edges of the cake, then turn in the top of the bar and rid it with an balance spatula.
26. allow the ganache to unwavering a bit, active 10 proceedings, then top with remaining ice, more Reese's chopped in half, and Reese's crumbles.
27. Refrigerate the bar until intelligent to couple. answer at opportunity temperature. Cake is superior for 3-4 days.

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