Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. Hershey’s famous chocolate cake filled with creamy peanut butter buttercream.

If you are getting hit with a snow storm like we are (or if you’re not lol) this is the cake to hunker down with. The famous Hershey’s cake is one of my favorites, its rich, moist and chocolatey. The smooth and creamy peanut butter buttercream is like a dream. The little added garnishes of chocolate drizzled pretzels and toffee peanut popcorn and you have a cake that will make you forget all the shoveling you’ll have to do tomorrow ;-).

The cake batter itself is watery so don’t let this scare you, it’s perfectly normal. This cake is spongy and super moist. It blends perfectly with any flavor you pair it with especially peanut butter! And speaking of peanut butter this pb buttercream is melt in your mouth delicious! I have to say that the crunchy pretzels and toffee popcorn add just the right salt and crunch to this cake plus they look really nice to.

So before you head out to shovel tomorrows snow drifts and inches make this cake, light a fire in the fireplace, grab the best spot on the couch and indulge in a slice or two.

Enjoy!

Stacey

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Stacey - The Sugar Coated Cottage

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. Hershey's famous chocolate cake filled with creamy peanut butter buttercream.

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Course Cake

Cuisine American

Ingredients

  

• CAKE:
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk room temp
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM:
• 1 1/3 cups creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup unsalted butter room temp
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM:
• 1 cup unsalted butter room temp
• 6 ounces semi sweet chocolate melted
• 1 1/2 Tbsp milk room temp
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

 

• CAKE:
• Heat oven to 350 degree F.
• Grease and flour 3 x 7 inch cake pans, line bottom with parchment. Set aside.
• Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in bowl of mixer.
• Add in the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, beat medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrape sides of bowl as needed.
• With mixer on medium speed (reduce to low speed if too much splashing occurs) slowly stream in the boiling water. Continue to mix until completely combined. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl as needed. Batter will be watery.
• Pour into prepared cake pans and bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Let cool completely.
• PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM:
• Cream butter and peanut butter in bowl of mixer fitted with paddle attachment on high about 2 minutes.
• Add the powdered sugar one spoonful at a time, mix until combined on high.
• Add in the salt and continue mixing on high until smooth and creamy.
• CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM:
• Cream butter in bowl of mixer fitted with paddle attachment about 2 minutes.
• Bring mixer to low speed and drizzle in the chocolate and continue mixing until well combined.
• Add in the milk, vanilla and sugar, mix on medium until well combined, smooth and creamy.
• Make sure to scrape sides and bottom of bowl to make sure all the butter and chocolate are fully combined.
• ASSEMBLY:
• Prep cake layers by cutting off the top domes off each layer so they are nice and flat.
• Put a small dollop of buttercream on cake plate/cake board and place the first cake layer on.
• Spread (or pipe) layer of pb buttercream on top of first layer.
• Place second cake layer on top and repeat, then repeat with the third layer.
• Apply a thin crumb coat of the pb buttercream around the cake, chill 45 minutes.
• Once chilled apply a coat of chocolate buttercream around the whole cake.
• Pipe a border around the bottom using chocolate buttercream (I used Wilton tip 4B).
• Decorate with piped stars using remaining chocolate and pb buttercream (again using the Wilton 4B tip).
• Garnish with pretzels, toffee peanut popcorn

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