Peanut Butter Cake

If peanut butter is your love language, this cake is for you.


cake
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
1 package butter cake mix
2/3 cup water

frosting
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 pounds powdered sugar
1 t. vanilla
1/3-1/2 cup heavy cream (or half & half, or milk)
12-14 full-sized Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

instructions Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour three 9 inch round cake pans. Combine 1/2 cup peanut butter and 1/2 cup butter; cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at time, mixing well after each one. Add cake mix alternately with the water. Stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 18 minutes or until cake tests done. Allow cakes to cool in pan for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a cooling rack to cool completely. Assemble and frost with Peanut Butter Frosting once cool.

to make peanut butter frosting: Combine 1 cup peanut butter and 1/2 cup butter; cream until light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar. Mix in vanilla and enough cream to make the frosting of a spreading consistency. Apply to cool cake. Top with chopped Reese's Cups.