Baby Ruth Layer Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 22
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
-
CAKE MIX
- 8 baby ruth candy bars, cutup
- 59.16 ml peanut butter, chunky
- 88.74 ml evaporated milk
- 473.18 ml flour, unsifted
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml baking powder
- 118.29 ml butter, softened
- 295.73 ml sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2.46 ml vanilla
- 236.59 ml buttermilk
-
FILLING and TOPPING
- 6 baby ruth candy bars, cutup
- 2 egg yolks
- 236.59 ml evaporated milk
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 118.29 ml butter
- 236.59 ml coconut, flaked
- 118.32 ml peanuts, coarsely chopped
-
WHIPPED TOPPING
- 236.59 ml heavy cream
- 1 egg white, stiffly beaten
- 36.97 ml powdered sugar, sifted
- 3.69 ml vanilla
directions
- Combine 8 cut-up Baby Ruth's, peanut butter and 6 Tb evaporated milk.
- in top of a double boiler; heat and stir until melted and blended. Cool.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl; mix well.
- Cream butter and sugar thoroughly; add well beaten eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
- Blend in the cooled candy bar mix and 1/2 ts vanilla.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk, blending on low speed after each addition, only until blended.
- Pour into 2 buttered and floured 9" round layer pans and bake in preheated 350 F oven for about 30 minutes.
- Cool in pans on rack for 10 minutes. Turn out and finish cooling on rack.
-
Baby Ruth Filling & Topping:
- Melt candy bars in top of double boiler.Combine egg yolks, evaporated milk, sugar and butter in a saucepan; cook and stir until thickened, over medium heat, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and blend in melted candy bars, coconut and peanuts.
- Cool, then beat vigorously with wooden spoon.
- Whipped Topping:.
- Whip heavy cream stiff; fold in stiffly beaten egg white,powdered sugar and vanilla.
-
Assembly:
- Spread cooled filling between layers and on top of cake.
- Spread whipped topping on the sides of the cake. Cut carefully with a sharp
- knife.
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Hi, I'm Debbie and currently we live in North Carolina! I have been married to my Best Friend, Colin for 17 years. I'm currently a SAHM to 3 wonderful children, their ages are 15yrs, 11yrs and 7yrs old!! I'm hoping to go back to school to become a pastry chef! I changed my chef name recently, I was debee939701.
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