Everything about this sinfully delicious Nutter Butter Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Recipe is mindblowing good. You can't find a better combination of chocolate and peanut butter than in this easy to make cake.
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients:
2boxes of milk chocolate cake mix
2 1/2Cwhole milk
2Cunsalted sweet cream butter, softened
6large eggs
Peanut Butter Frosting Ingredients:
2Cunsalted sweet cream butter
3Cpowder sugar
4tbspheavy whipping cream
1/2Cpeanut butter
1tspvanilla
1disposable piping bag with star tip
1container of Mini Nutter Butter Cookies
Chocolate Ganache Ingredients:
1Csemi sweet chocolate chips
1/2Cheavy whipping cream
1large squeeze bottle
Instructions
Chocolate Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray three 9 inch round cake pans with pam baking spray, set aside
Using a hand mixer and a large mixing bowl, beat all cake ingredients together until fully combined.
Divide batter between the two baking pans and bake in the preheated oven for 25-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean in the center
Allow to cool completely on the counter.
Once cooled, remove cakes from cake pan and cut the domes off
Frosting Directions:
Using a standing mixer, combine the butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, peanut butter and vanilla and mix on medium speed until smooth and creamy
Build cake directions:
Place the first cake layer onto a serving plate
Scoop 1 C of frosting onto the first layer and smooth out evenly
Place the second layer of cake onto the first layer of frosting
Place another scoop of frosting onto the second layer of cake and smooth evenly
Repeat steps with remaining cake layers
Once all layers have been frosted, frost entire cake
Scoop remaining frosting into a piping bag and set aside
Chocolate ganache directions:
Using a small pot, heat up the heavy whipping cream until steaming
While heavy whipping cream is heating up, place chocolate chips into a heat-proof bowl
Once the heavy whipping cream is heated, pour over the chocolate chips
Allow to sit for 1 minute before whisking until smooth
Pour ganache into the squeeze bottle
Decorating directions:
Using the squeeze bottle, to create a drizzle effect around the top of the cake, squeeze some ganache over the side allow the chocolate ganache to drip down
Pour ganache onto the center of the top of the cake and smooth evenly to coat the top
Allow to sit for 10 minutes to allow ganache to harden
Pipe dollops of frosting onto the top cake
Place a nutter butter cookie onto the top and side of the frosting dollops