Reece's Peanut Butter Cake

It took Nathan and I a while to come up with just the perfect cake for his birthday. The only requirement: chocolate and peanut butter. Dynamite combo. 

The Result.

What we did:

-Snatched a box mix of the triple chocolate fudge cake (Got to whip out the new Kitchenaid mixer. Perfection)

-Used that to make two 8" round cakes

-In order to secure the two layers together we simply used a fudge icing (a lot of it)

-The most important and delicious part of the entire cake was the peanut butter frosting

-After a good peanut butter frosting coating we added just a few Reece's peanut butter cups (the mini ones)

Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe 

• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/3 cup heavy cream

(As recommended by another site, we doubled the frosting recipe)

Success.