Peanut Butter Cup Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
12-16
ingredients
- 1 (18 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
- 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1⁄3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 1⁄3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 (1 lb) bag powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
- 1⁄2 cup butter (no substitutes)
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
- 1⁄4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 15 -20 miniature peanut butter cups
directions
- Bake cake according to package directions.
- Cool.
- FROSTING: Cream butter until smooth and fluffy.
- Add sugar a little at a time until blended well with the butter.
- Add whipping cream (a little at a time) Add cocoa powder and blend.
- Keep adding the cream until the right consistency (should be smooth and spreadable; not too thin).
- Add peanut butter and vanilla and blend until smooth.
- When frosting the cake, Spread frosting between layers and add 1/4 cup of crushed peanut butter cups before placing the top layer.
- Frost the entire cake with frosting.
- Decorate additional peanut butter cups either whole or halves.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
JustaQT
Camdenton, MO
In Memory of Maxie, a beloved pet who we love and miss so very much. Our sweet Maxie was a black lab who wss put to sleep because of stomache cancer. 1997 - October 31, 2007
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I live in Missouri, USA.
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