MMmmm, CAKE!

Today I made a DELICIOUS cake. I found it on AllRecipes.com, but I will go ahead and tell you how to make it.

Here are the girls ready to bake!

Here are the ingredients:

Creamy Peanut Butter

1 cup of butter or margarine

4 eggs

Yellow Cake Mix (I used the butter kind, but I think you can probably do any kind you want)

2/3 cup of water

Confectioner's sugar

Heavy cream (or milk, I used the cream)

1 tsp Vanilla (optional)

Hot fudge (optional)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (optional)

The Cake:

Preheat the oven to 325 and "grease and flour" two 9 inch cake pans (for this I sprayed some Pam and sprinkled some flour in the pans).

Mix a half cup of butter or margarine with a half cup of peanut butter. I used the electric whisk-er, but I don't think you have to. Then add the 4 eggs one by one, mixing in between. Next alternate the cake mix with the 2/3 cup of water until just mixed (no whisking here). Put the batter in the cake pans and bake for 25 minutes. This is one of the pieces cooling:

The Frosting:

Mix another half cup of butter with a full cup of peanut butter. Whisking is ideal here to make it creamy. Then add confectioners sugar. The recipe called for 4 cups, but that seemed like a lot, so I only ended up with 3 cups. Here I also added some vanilla extract as recommended by one of the critiques on the website. Then pour in 1/3 cup heavy cream and whisk till creamy and fluffy. If it still seems thick, add more cream until it looks fluffy and spreadable.

Make it pretty:

Toppings

After the cakes cool, stack them and cover with the icing. I got some microwavable hot fudge from the ice cream toppings section of the grocery store and heated as directed, then drizzled it around the cake. I was hoping it would look more drizzly than clumpy, but its fine. Then I got mini Reese's peanut butter cups and smooshed them into the icing....and VOILA!

Hope you make it, and hope you like it!