Cake Recipes
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted roasted peanuts
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter
- 5 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 5 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, finely chopped (1.8 ounces)
- 1 1/2 cups chilled whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 Butterfinger bars, cut into 3/4 inch wedges (2.1 ounces)
- 1/2 cup Reese's Pieces
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter and flour two 9 x 2-inch round cake pans.
- Grind the nuts and 3/4 cup of flour in a food processor until fine.
- Using a mixer, beat eggs, yolks, sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl until the mixture whitens and triples in volume.
- Fold in the nut mixture.
- Divide the batter between the prepared pans and smooth the tops.
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, or about 20 minutes.
- Cool the cakes in the pans on rack.
- For the filling, blend peanut butter, butter and sugar in a processor until smooth.
- With the machine running, add the cream through the feed tube and blend until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Invert the cakes onto a work surface. Using a serrated knife, cut each cake into 2 layers. Place 1 cake layer on a platter, cut side up.
- Spread with 1/3 of the filling and sprinkle with 1/3 of the chopped peanut butter cups. Top with a second cake layer, cut side down. Continue layering with the remaining filling, peanut butter cups and cake, ending with the cake, cut side down.
- For the topping, beat the cream, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until almost stiff.
- Transfer 1/2 cup to a small bowl and reserve for garnish.
- Spread the remaining whipped cream over the top and the sides of the cake. Press nuts around the base of the cake forming a 1 1/2 inch high border. Cover the top of the cake with Butterfingers leaving a 1/2-inch border.
- Spoon the reserved whipped cream into a pastry bag fitted with a medium star tip; pipe stars around the top edge.
- Garnish with Reese's Pieces.