Reese’s Triple layer Cake

When it comes to dreaming up a perfect cake I can guarantee that around here it usually involves peanut butter. Peanut butter sauce, peanut butter cups, peanut butter ice cream, peanut butter candy or just plain old peanut butter. I inherited this love from my dad who always loved plain old skippy! This cake is the best of both worlds…chocolate and peanut butter. Such a perfect duo. The cake layers in the recipe are adapted from my friend Vera at OMG Chocolate Desserts. It is a fabulous chocolate cake and now my go-to one! The frosting I used here is packed with peanut butter power. It is sweet and delicious and will leave you licking the bowl, for sure. Top this with a little drizzle of caramel and a load of Reese’s and you have one dynamite dessert for company or just your family! Enjoy!

Reese's Triple layer Cake

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Ingredients

  

Cake

• ¾ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ cup + 2 Tablespoons soft butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¾ cup whole milk
• ¼ cup sour cream

Frosting

• 3 sticks butter
• 3 cups peanut butter
• 6 cups confectioner's sugar
• ½ cup plus 1 T. heavy cream

Decorations

• Peanut butter cups one whole, some cut in half and some chopped
• caramel sauce for a drizzle

Instructions

 

Cake

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Spray 3 9-inch round baking pans with pam, line bottoms with parchment paper, grease again and set aside.
• In small bowl combine cocoa and boiling water with a whisk until smooth. Cool.
• In medium bowl stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
• In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time and vanilla.
• Slowly add the cocoa mix.
• Add ⅓ of the flour mix, then the milk. Then ⅓ of flour and the sour cream. Then, add the rest of the flour.
• Mix well and divide into the pans.
• Bake 20 mins until the toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool and pop out of pans. Remove parchment. (Cool and at this point you can freeze)

Frosting

• Beat butter and peanut butter.
• Slowly add sugar to combine.
• Beat well until fluffy.
• Add cream gradually and whip until a good texture.

Assembly

• Place one cake layer on cake plate.
• Top with 1/3 the frosting. (Pipe it for a pretty look if desired)
• Add next cake layer and top with 1/3 frosting.
• Top with final cake and add rest of the frosting.
• Top with peanut butter cups and a caramel drizzle