This Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cake is simpler than it looks because it starts with a boxed cake mix. You’ll love the rich peanut butter frosting that tastes like the cream inside Nutter Butters.
I know that peanut butter and chocolate is the best together, but I am a complete peanut butter fan. You know the chocolate and peanut butter Buckeye candy? My favorite part of the Buckeye is the peanut butter. I eat peanut butter with apples, pretzels, and crackers of any kind. My dog, Josie, is the same way. Keep an eye on her when peanut butter is around. She tries to get her paws on it any way she can. Unfortunately for her, she doesn’t get to eat as much as she’d like.
Although I love homemade cookies, there is a store-bought cookie that I can’t resist. Can you guess what it is?
Nutter Butters. I mean, really. There’s not much better than a cold glass of milk and a pile of Nutter Butters.
Last weekend, I was cake deprived. After I made the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cake, it seemed useless to try and beat it. Then I had an idea. What would be better than to make just a plain peanut butter cake and decorate it with my favorite Nutter Butter cookies? Using the awesome peanut butter icing recipe, I made this delicious monster of a cake.
Before I made this Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cake, I looked up on the computer for a good from-scratch recipe for peanut butter cake. I found one that looked good, but when I made it, I realized it just wasn’t the cake I was looking for. But how can you just throw away a homemade cake? This is the best kind of failure: Stuck at home with a peanut butter cake that is up for grabs!
I ended up using a yellow boxed cake mix and altered it using the Peanut Butter Silk Cake recipe found at Betty Crocker. I love making cake from scratch, but I also love doctoring up a boxed cake mix. So easy!
My adventure that started with a disaster ended with a wonderfully simple cake all based on my favorite food: peanut butter.
Wondering how to make frosting swirls on a cake? Don’t let them scare you off. They’re super easy. You can see a great little video on frosting swirls here.
If you like Nutter Butters, you’ll have to try this cake soon. Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cake will satisfy even the biggest peanut butter craving.
Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cake
Ingredients
Layer Cake:
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
Peanut Butter Frosting:
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 package Nutter Butters
Instructions
- For the layer cake: In a large mixing bowl, beat cake mix, water, peanut butter, oil and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed about 2 minutes. Pour into greased and floured 9 inch round pans.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes, then invert the round cakes onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- For the Peanut Butter Frosting: In a mixing bowl, blend together peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, and milk with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 3-3minutes or until light and fluffy.
- Level the cakes if necessary, then place one cake on a plate and frost the top. Place the other cake on top of that and frost the sides and top. Decorate as desired with piping rosettes and using Nutter Butters, large or bite-sized.
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Angie Adams says
Have you tried this recipe as a sheet cake?
Julie Clark says
I haven’t, but it would work!