Sweetheart Trifle

I love the chocolate/peanut butter taste! I found this in a cooking magazine, it originally called for Nestle Crunch Bars, but I don't care for those, so I decided to use the peanut butter cups. Try a different candy bar and find your favorite! I am not positive about the prep time, but it includes chilling.

• Ready In: 6 hrs 40 mins
• Serves: 12-15

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4ounce) package  chocolate cake mix
• 10  ounces  peanut butter chips
• 4 1⁄4 cups  cold milk, divided
• 1⁄2 cup  whipping cream
• 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 (6ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip, thawed
• 4 -6  Reese's Peanut Butter cups, crumbled

Directions

1. Prepare cake mix according to directions, let cool completely.
2. In a heavy saucepan, combine chips, 1/4 c milk and the whipping cream.
3. Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted.
4. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla and cool to room temp.
5. (If you don't melt the chips on high heat, it will only take a 1/2 hour to cool) Place the remaining milk in a mixing bowl; beat in the pudding mixes on low speed for 2 minutes.
6. To assemble, crumble half the cake into a 4 qt trifle bowl or large bowl.
7. Layer with 1/2 the peanut butter sauce, pudding, whipped topping and then repeat layers.
8. At the end, add the crumbled peanut butter cups.
9. Cool for 3 hours.