How to Prepare Homemade Peanut Butter Cup Cake

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, peanut butter cup cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Peanut Butter Cup Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Peanut Butter Cup Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have peanut butter cup cake using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Cup Cake:

1. Take Batter
2. Prepare 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
3. Get 1 (16 oz) package light brown sugar
4. Prepare 1/2 cup butter, softened
5. Get 3 large eggs
6. Get 2 cups all-purpose flour
7. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
8. Get 1/2 teaspoon salt
9. Prepare 1 (8 oz) container sour cream
10. Make ready 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
11. Prepare 1 cup hot water
12. Get Peanut Butter Frosting
13. Prepare 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
14. Get 1 1/4 cups creamy peanut butter
15. Get 4 cups powdered sugar
16. Make ready 1/4 cup milk
17. Take 2 1/2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
18. Get as needed Reeses candy for decoration

Steps to make Peanut Butter Cup Cake:

1. Spray a pan with baking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Melt chocolate chips. (Microwave at 30 second intervals until melted, stir). Set aside.
3. Using an electric mixer. beat butter and brown sugar at medium speed for 5 minutes.
4. Beat in eggs one at a time
5. Beat in melted chocolate just until combined
6. Whisk together flour, baking soda. and salt
7. Add flour, alternating with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture
8. Beat in vanilla extract
9. With mixer on low speed, gradually add in hot water (it will look watery)
10. Divide cake batter evenly into 3 cake pans
11. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cake is firm when gently pressed on top. Let cool for 10 mins then remove from pans to cool completely.
12. To make frosting: Beat butter and peanut butter until smooth and creamy
13. Beat in half the powdered sugar and half the milk
14. Beat in remaining powdered sugar. remaining milk, instant pudding mix
15. Place one cake layer on a cake stand or serving platter. Spread frosting on top, layer another cake, frost, layer last cake and frost. I reserved 3/4 cup of frosting to decorate.
16. Decorate with Reeses candy!

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