Recipe: Delicious Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake

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Recipe: Delicious Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake. A sinful triple-layer chocolate cake filled and frosted with peanut butter frosting, layers of peanut butter cups and topped with chocolate ganache. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Although both cakes are dripping with ganache, today's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Overload Cake couldn't be more different than the Chocolate Chip What you have is a super chocolatety cake covered in a not too sweet, silky smooth peanut butter icing and topped with that rich chocolate.

The standard peanut butter cups just weren't cutting it for me this time, so I had to go and turn it into a gigantic cake of chocolate peanut butter happiness.

I could float away in a sea of this fluffy peanut butter frosting.

It's so creamy and rich, but the texture is so light, just like eating a cloud.

You can have Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake

You need 1 of for cake batter.
Prepare 2 1/2 cup of Plus 1 TBS all-purpose flour.
You need 1 cup of Plus 1 TBS Dutch processed cocoa powder (I couldn't find any so I used regular cocoa powder).
You need 3 cup of granulated sugar.
You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
It’s 1 tbsp of baking soda.
It’s 3 each of eggs.
Prepare 4 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need 1 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
Prepare 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
You need 1 1/2 cup of strong hot black coffee.
It’s 30 piece of mini peanut butter cups.
It’s 1 of for peanut butter icing.
You need 2 cup of powdered sugar.
It’s 10 tbsp of unsalted butter, softened.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare 2 cup of creamy peanut butter.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
It’s 2/3 cup of heavy cream.
You need 1 of for chocolate ganache.
Prepare 8 oz of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Prepare 3/4 cup of heavy cream.

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Although both cakes are dripping with ganache, today's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Overload Cake couldn't be more different than the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough… Frost the cake with the remaining peanut butter frosting, finishing it as smoothly as possible.

Chocolate peanut butter cup overload cake instructions

For cakes- Heat oven to 350˚. Line the bottom of 3 8" cake pans with parchment paper, while greasing and flooring the sides..
In a large bowl, sift together ALL the dry ingredients. In another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, coffee, oil, and vanilla. Add wet to dry and mix for 2 minutes and 20 seconds on medium speed (will be thin)..
Divide into the 3 prepared cake pans. Bake for 20 minutes. Rotate each cake pan and bake 12 more minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool cakes in the pan on wire rack for 20 minutes, remove from pans, and cool rest of the way..
After cakes are completely cooled, begin making peanut butter icing. Peanut butter icing- Beat powdered sugar, peanut butter, butter, vanilla, and salt on low speed until creamy. Beat in heavy cream, on high, until light and smooth..
To layer cakes to make a whole, do 1 cake, 1 cup peanut butter icing, 10 chopped mini peanut butter cups, 1 cake, 1 cup peanut butter icing, 10 more chopped peanut butter cups, last cake, last of peanut butter icing, ganache, and last 10 chopped peanut butter cups..
Chocolate ganache- Place semi-sweet chocolate chips in a small mixing bowl. In a small saucepan, warm heavy cream just until at a boil. Pour cream over chocolate and let sit for 2 minutes. Whisk until smooth, and let sit until thickened some, and then pour over cake. Finally top with last 10 chopped mini peanut butter cups. ENJOY!.

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