How to Cook Delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cake

Peanut Butter Cup Cake. Set aside on wire rack and let cool before removing from pans. For the frosting: In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the vanilla frosting and peanut butter. With just six ingredients, you can even make it on a weeknight!

Assemble the Cake: If your cakes baked up uneven or have domed on top, level off the tops. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. TIPS FOR MAKING RESSE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUP CAKE: I like to use margarine in the frosting for this recipe for one main reason. You can Have Peanut Butter Cup Cake using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Cup Cake

1. It's of Batter.
2. It's of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3. Lets Go Prepare of package light brown sugar.
4. It's of butter, softened.
5. It's of large eggs.
6. It's of all-purpose flour.
7. What You needis of baking soda.
8. It's of salt.
9. Lets Go Prepare of container sour cream.
10. What You needis of vanilla extract.
11. What You needis of hot water.
12. Lets Go Prepare of Peanut Butter Frosting.
13. What You needis of butter, softened.
14. What You needis of creamy peanut butter.
15. What You needis of powdered sugar.
16. What You needis of milk.
17. Lets Go Prepare of instant vanilla pudding mix.
18. It's of Reeses candy for decoration.

Because of the high vegetable oil content in margarine, I found it helps to keep this frosting soft and creamy. But if you are just totally adverse to using margarine, please feel free to use real butter. Frost the top and outside of the cake with remaining peanut butter frosting. Spread out the other half of the quartered cups on top of the cake.

Peanut Butter Cup Cake step by step

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!.

Peanut butter cup cake roll is the perfect cake for peanut butter and chocolate lovers. This easy cake roll recipe is rich chocolate cake filled with creamy peanut butter filling. It's topped with chocolate ganache and covered in peanut butter cups! Reese's peanut butter cups are probably one of my most favorite candies to indulge in! My guess is that I am not alone either.