Description
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake made with moist chocolate layers, creamy peanut butter frosting, and rich chocolate ganache topped with Reese’s.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup hot water
- 2 cups unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups peanut butter
- 9 cups powdered sugar
- 6–7 tbsp milk or water
- Pinch of salt
- 6 Reese’s peanut butter cups, chopped
- 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 4 Reese’s peanut butter cups, halved
- Crumbled Reese’s
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare three 8-inch cake pans
- Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt
- Mix milk, oil, vanilla, and eggs
- Combine wet and dry ingredients until smooth
- Slowly add hot water and mix until combined
- Divide batter into pans and bake 22–25 minutes
- Cool cakes completely
- Mix butter and peanut butter until smooth
- Add powdered sugar and liquid gradually to make frosting
- Level cake layers
- Layer cake with frosting and chopped Reese’s
- Apply crumb coat and final frosting layer
- Heat cream and pour over chocolate chips, then whisk to make ganache
- Drizzle ganache over cake and decorate with frosting and Reese’s
Notes
- Do not overmix batter
- Cool cake layers before frosting
- Chill cake slightly before adding ganache
- Store in refrigerator up to 4 days
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 1100
- Sugar: 112
- Sodium: 774
- Fat: 62
- Saturated Fat: 30
- Unsaturated Fat: 28
- Trans Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 133
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 14
- Cholesterol: 110