Kevin is *31* today. Happy Birthday, baby! :)
Kevin *loves* peanut butter cups. You know, peanut butter on the inside, chocolate on the outside? Of course you do! :) Heck, pretty much anything peanut butter & chocolate, he loves it. Awhile back, I got a comment on my best chocolate cake (ever!) recipe- someone had added PEANUT BUTTER to the buttercream frosting!! :) I *had* to try it. I knew he’d love it. A chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting?? It’s kind of like an inverted peanut butter cup! :) What more could a chocolate and peanut butter lover wish for??
OMG- this cake.. Since I was making a chocolate and peanut butter cake- I decide to go *all* out. This would be the most decadent, peanut buttery and chocolate cake ever. If you don’t like peanut butter and chocolate you may want to slowly back away now. It’s ok. I understand. But if you do, come on- I’ll tell you all about it. :D
I used my best chocolate cake (ever!) recipe- but instead of the two cups of chocolate chips at the end, I used 2 cups of chopped, miniature peanut butter cups. It took almost an entire bag. I tried taking the easy way out and using a food processor, and then my Pampered Chef food chopper (you know… it’s like the Slap Chop! ;)) to chop up the peanut butter cups, but in the end, it was easier to just do it with my trusty old knife and cutting board. Actually the hardest part was unwrapping all of those babies. :p
OMG. Again. I will have dreams about this frosting tonight. At first I thought the peanut butter buttercream frosting might be a little rich for me- but let me tell you right now that was THE best frosting I have ever had the pleasure of tasting in my *entire* life. So smooth. So light. Just a hint of peanut butter. I think I may even like it better than the original vanilla buttercream!! :O Is that legal??
To make it, all I did was make my regular vanilla buttercream frosting and mixed in a 1/2 cup of smooth peanut butter at the end.
I will definitely, definitely be making the peanut butter frosting again. Hopefully soon. Very very soon. Maybe on the next cake I make. I can only hope. I may shrivel up and blow away if I don’t have this frosting again soon. Thank you, Emily, so much for your decadent, utterly sinful suggestion!! :D
OMG … *moan* … *groan* … This cake was so ridiculous. So rich. So chocolaty. So peanut buttery. Kevin *loved* it. :D
In the end, I ended up using 2 *entire* bags of mini peanut butter cups. Almost a full bag for the inside and the rest for the outside. That’s over 100 peanut butter cups in a single cake. Excessive? Extravagant? Over the top? Yes. Divinely delicious? Yes. :D
Thanks for looking! :)
Happy Birthday, Kevin!!!!!! My dad likes brownies with peanut butter frosting and M&M’s on top. This would just make that pale in comparison! Thank you so much for the share!!
Yea Kevin!! Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Kevin!
And holy…cow. Why can’t you be MY WIFE? haha.
Oh I think I died and gained 10 pounds just looking at that cake! Oh I just want to smell and taste a little piece. What a beautiful couple you make. Happy birthday Kevin!
Feliz Aniversário!!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy 31st bday Kevin, enjoy your delicious fat-free cake.
Happy Birthday Kevin! That cake looks amazing!
AAAHHHHHH! You are just “killing me” with those pictures of that CAKE! It sounds and looks divine! I just so want a piece NOW! Just a piece, a small one, not the whole cake. I bake very little since my hubby is not a dessert person tho he likes cookies now and then. Coming from a chocoholic, sweet fanatic family it was a hard adjustment (and I’m all the more healthier for it, sniff sniff). Funny thing, I was just reading peanut butter icing recipes on the web last night for no reason at all, then wondering what excuse I could use to make some. Now your recipes, sound extra tasty, and the pictures… I need to find someone to make it for, who will let me have a piece : )
Happy Birthday Kevin! Young’n : ) Thanks for sharing Amanda!
Happy Birthday Kevin ! My son just had a birthday yesterday (Aug 25th) May you have many, many more ! Great cake Amanda ! I am starving now and I love peanut butter cups too !!!
Oh my gosh! Look at that cake! I think I know what I want for my birthday! My husband Kevin loves chocolate and peanut butter too! It must be a Kevin thing! :) Well, happy birthday to your Kevin. Thanks for the idea on the cake! :) Can’t wait to make one! :)
Wow, that cake looks amazing. Sounds like Kevin had a wonderful birthday. Wishing him many more.
This cake looks so good, my husband loves pbc too and this looks like the perfect treat for our wedding anniversary next month!
that looks so yummy….I think we have now found my son’s birthday cake…he has been asking for a certain name brand peanut butter cup cake. Do you think that it would be okay for a diabetic (me) to eat?
According to our Grandson, you are sure a good cook and he wants a piece.
Looks wonderful. Happy Birthday Kevin.
Eliz
Happy Birthday!! Wow that cake looks unbelievable! I may have to make my own cake this year just to try this one out :)
Happy birthday Kevin! I don’t think that cake is legal! Especially since I’m on Weight Watchers! YUM!!!! Thanks for that bit of chocolate peanut butter porn!
I am dying! This cake is sooooooooo not weight watcher friendly and I want a piece soooo bad!
That looks absolutely divine! Happy Birthday wishes to you, Kevin. God bless.
Wow…that cake is beyond amazing!
He is a lucky lucky birthday boy :)
BTW….my little brother just got a new BOSTON TERRIER pupppppy! :)
OMG! The first email I get from you guys and you blow my diet right out of the window! I am drooling and just KNOW that I gained five pounds looking at the pictures. It looks like it belongs in a high end bake shop-it’s beautiful! What a great job! :0) I’ve been wondering what dessert to take to a friend’s pool party. This is it!!! Happy birthday, Kevin!
Just so you know, you guys look amazing! I don’t know how you do it, but your pictures always look flawless, light, and just awesome! Love your work!
A very Happy Birthday, Kevin! That cake looks delicious.
Wow, holy cow that looks good!! Mmmmm I too love Peanut Butter cups!
Happy Birthday to Kevin
Happy Birthday Kevin!
That Cake looks so good Amanda! I’m going to have to try that recipe
OHHHHH YUMMMY!!! Kevin a lucky guy….
Happy Birthday Kevin!
Happy Scrapin’ Kat
My husband would LoVE this cake, too! Thanks for the recipes! I’m going to have to make it for him on his birthday, too. :)
Wow..your dentist must be grinning! That cake would be teeth-rottingly delicious. Happy Birthday Kevin!
My birthday is at the end of the month and I too requested a chocolate/peanut butter cake! but yours beats all! I think I’m in love…with the cake!
Mmmmmmm- Happy Birthday Kevin!
OH.MY.GOODNESS. That cake looks amazing. I want some now!
OMG! I’m so making this cake for my hubby’s bday! He’s a Choc. and PB kinda guy as well and I know he’d just love this! So will my kiddos :) Your gonna be a hero at my house!! Thanks for sharing!
As always, love your blog/website
Thank goodness you can’t ruin a diet by pictures alone — that DOES look sinful! I may have to try this sometime soon :) After the diet, of course! haha! Thanks for sharing, and happy birthday to your husband!
As always, i love your emails. And, now i love this CAKE. my husband, is like Kevin, (in love with peanutbutter cups) but not just peanutbutter cups, peanutbutter in all! so i think i’ll try making him this cake. He wants peanut butter everything, i even made him peanut butter waffles, he about melted. SO thank u for this amazing email.
and happy (possibly belated) birthday Kevin.
O.M.G. It looks amazing, Amanda. I’m going to have to make that real soon. It looks sinfully delicious! Yummm!!
Happy Birthday, Kevin!
WOW I have never seen a cake anything like that, how decadent! YUM
HBDTY Kevin! What a cake!! Yummy!!
awesome! Thanks so much! Hubby’s birthday is January, I’ll have to give this a go then (if I do it before, I’m afraid I’ll be required to make it weekly, and by January it’d loose it’s specialness)
Oh This cake loooooooks soooo gooooooddd. I cant wait to make it and I love peanut butter & Chocolate . and Your pictures are so good. Makes you just want to reach right into and get a piece YuMMMMY
OMG! Happy Birthday Kevin! That looks soooo good!
omg wow. I would so go into a coma, but it looks amazing! The idea of peanut butter/buttercreme frosting sounds too decadent to say outloud.
Oh and of course, Happy Birthday Kevin!
ABSOLUTELY SINFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So pretty!
I am going to dream about this cake tonight. I’m pretty sure you win Wife of the Year for this cake!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN!
Let me just say that I too am a peanut butter and chocolate together lover too! I mean is there anything better? I am going to HAVE to make this! I cannot wait! As always thanks for making my mouth water!
Muchas felicidades Kevin! Se ve que tu esposa te adora, mira que hacerte ese delicioso pastel, Diosss se ve riquÃsimo Amanda!
Creo que ya engordé con solo verlo :)
Saludos desde Los Cabos, México.
Kisses ♥
The cake looks amazing! My mouth is watering!!! Sounds like my hubby’s kind of cake too! Happy Birthday to yours!
I am in diabetic shock just looking at the pictures. Yummy! Happy Birthday Kevin!
Mygosh, that looks like heaven.
Muchas felicidades!!!que te la pases muy bien!!…como cantamos aqui en Mexico: “Estas son las mañanitas que canaba el rey David hoy por ser tu cumpleaños te las cantamos a ti……”
Muchas felicidades!!!
Happy Birthday Kevin! Wow, Amanda that cake looks so delicious!!!