The Best Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake Recipe

The Best Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake Recipe

Will the real Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake recipe please stand up?

Seriously. I have been making this recipe for years and the actual recipe is hidden on some random word document on my laptop. When I went to make it this year again for the Sugar Plum Cook Off in Monroe, NC, I couldn’t find it. 🙁 So, while I had the recipe for the actual chocolate cake part, I was missing the frosting….which tastes exactly like the inside of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. So I searched and searched the internet and while there were lots of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake recipes I could not find one similar to my original, I just had to pick one for the frosting.

As I was making the cake, the night before the cook off, when I tried to frost the cake I realized there was NO WAY the icing was the same as I normally use. So I scraped the frosting off the cake and sat there thinking, “Where the heck is my recipe!?”. It is now 10 pm the night before the cook off and I don’t know what I am going to do….and then it hits me. Over the summer I had made actual recipe cards for some of my favorite recipes.

Where the heck were those cards???

I ran upstairs and looked all over my desk.

Nope.

I ran downstairs and looked in every drawer.

Nope.

Finally, I looked in the cupboard that I have a lot of recipes and recipe books in and there it was…sitting there.

Right where it should be.

reeses peanut butter cup cake recipe card

I have made this Reese’s Peanut Butter Cake recipe for years and have modified it based on how I think it should taste. I have no idea where I saw the original Reese’s Peanut Butter Cake recipe as I just wrote it down. However, I do know the biggest thing I changed was the actual cake part. The original cake part was really a hard chocolate cake. Like, rock hard. I am assuming it is because the icing is so soft it would be hard to frost a moist cake with this frosting. But isn’t the point of the cake to taste good first and look good second? So, I changed the cake part first. I used the BEST most moist chocolate cake recipe for this recipe.

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Moist Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1¾ cup all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1.5 tsp. baking powder
  • 1.5 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 nine inch round baking pans.
  2. In a large bowl, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  3. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Using a hand mixer, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed. Stir in the boiling water. Mix for another minute. Batter will be thin.
  4. Pour cake batter evenly into the greased and floured pans.
  5. Bake 30-35 minutes in the preheated oven until the cake is done. (Use a toothpick to test).
  6. Cool the pans for five minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool the cakes to room temperature.

 

chocolate cake recipe, the most moist chocolate cake recipe, moist chocolate cake recipeThe Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake is an award winning cake for me!

  • Won “Top Baker” at the Celebrity Bake Off and Silent Auction – July 2013
  • Won highest bid at the Celebrity Bake Off and Silent Auction – July 2013 (All proceeds went to the CMPD Animal Care and Control Division).
  • Won Best Cake at the WIXE Cook Off – December 2013
  • Sold for the highest bid (600.00) at the WIXE Cook Off – December 2013 (All proceeds went to the local charity HomeTown Heroes).

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The Best Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cake Recipe
Ingredients
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 10 tbs. room temperature, unsalted butter
  • 1¼ tsp. pure vanilla extract (don't use imitation!)
  • ½ tsp kosher salt
  • ⅔ cup heavy cream
  • 1 bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Instructions
  1. Using the Moist Chocolate cake recipe from above, bake the cake and let it cool.
  2. While the cakes are cooling, make the frosting by combining the powdered sugar, peanut butter, butter, vanilla, and salt in a bowl and beat on medium low until creamy. Use the paddle attachment if you have one, but you don't have to.
  3. Add the heavy cream and beat on high until smooth.
  4. Before frosting the cake, put the miniature Reese's peanut butter cups in the freezer or refrigerator.
  5. Frost the cake.
  6. Remove the miniature Reese's peanut butter cups and chop/halve them and decorate the cake as desired.

Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Cake recipe

 

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