New Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Happy Tasty Tuesday!

So here's the deal. When I started this blog I decided that once a week I wanted to share a recipe that I have personally made with all of you. I really enjoy cooking and I'm constantly trying new recipes at home on weekends, attempting to recreate something I ate in a restaurant or fulfill some crazy craving. The whole point in the recipes that I share is that I have made them first-hand, I don't like to post a random recipe that I've never tried making/eating because who knows if it was going to be any good!? But coming up with new recipes each week can be difficult. Since I post something new every Tuesday, I have to come up with 52 new recipes every year, and that is a lot of time spent in the kitchen. 

So since I haven't tried making anything new in the past two weeks I decided to give you a recipe I made a couple years ago when I first bought the KitchenAid Mixer. I had my eye on this mixer for years but it's super expensive. When we finally bit the bullet and invested in it I knew I wanted to make something complicated that, without the mixer would have been a lot more work (mainly because I hate stirring bowls...). Enter this amazing chocolate peanut butter cake. It was very delicious and very fattening but a great way to break in the new mixer. So pardon the not so great photo of the finished product since I took this years before I had a blog and realized that when I cook I need to make the picture pretty!

Ingredients for Cake:

• 1 box devils food cake mix 
• 1 large package of jello instant pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups of peanut butter cups chopped
• More peanut butter cups for topping garnish

Ingredients for Frosting:

• 1 cup shortening or crisco
• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• In a large bowl, combine all cake ingredients except peanut butter cups so that everything is mixed completely (it will be thick so use those muscles if you don't have a mixer!). Then add chopped peanut butter cups.
• Pour batter into cake pans of choice (I use ones similar to THIS). 
• Bake in oven according to the time on the devils food cake box (plus add 10 extra minutes). You can use a toothpick to determine whether the cake is done or not--- clean toothpick means its done!
• In a second bowl, combine shortening and peanut butter mixing them until light and fluffy (use a mixer is possible!). 
• Add sugar and continue creaming until blended, then add salt, vanilla and whipping cream until frosting is fluffy.
• Once cake is cooled, frost it! I did a little design using decorator tools and then topped it with even more chopped peanut butter cups!
• Enjoy!

What is the most complicated recipe you've ever tried?

xoxo