Recipes Made with Cake Mixes

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake
with Baby Ruth Frosting

You will have to watch for 'little fingers' in the frosting bowl when you make this cake. Peanut butter and candy make the perfect combination kids love.

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake

Prep: 15 min | Bake: 40 min | Yield: 15 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 (18.25 ounce) box chocolate cake mix*
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 6 (2.1 ounce) Nestlé® Baby Ruth Candy Bars, chopped
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
  • 1 cup Nestlé® Carnation® Evaporated Milk
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut (optional)
  • 1/2 cup dry-roasted peanuts, chopped
  • 2 large egg yolks

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour** a 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
  2. Prepare cake mix batter according to package directions, adding peanut butter before mixing. Pour into prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  4. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
  5. Place chopped Baby Ruth and butter in a medium, heavy-duty saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, until Baby Ruth is melted.
  6. Combine evaporated milk, sugar, coconut, peanuts and egg yolks in medium bowl. Add to Baby Ruth mixture. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes or until thickened.
  7. Cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes; stir.
  8. Frost cake with Baby Ruth frosting.
  9. Refrigerate cake until ready to serve.

Notes

* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes. To compensate for the volume loss in a 16 ounce box, whisk 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the dry cake mix before proceeding with the recipe. To compensate for the volume loss in a 15.25 ounce box, add 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.

** For best results, use our Pan Release!

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé® and meals.com



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