Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese’s Cake is a moist chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and buttercream frosting! Perfect for the Reese’s lover in your life! You may also love our peanut butter Snickers cake.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese’s Cake
We had the idea of this amazing chocolate peanut butter Reese’s Cake a month ago for a friend’s birthday cake. Peanut butter, chocolate, cake, (I couldn’t pass up any of those!). I’m a cake person, and NOT an icing fan. People tell me I’m crazy because of that. But I have found a couple of icings I really like. This cake has all of my favorite stuff in it resulting in my dream cake.
We made it for my grandma’s birthday, and boy did she love it!
How to Make Chocolate Cake
- You’re going to first put flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a bowl.
- In a stand mixer, mix the buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla. Then pour the dry ingredients in the mixer slowly with the wet ingredients. Add in the coffee last and mix well.
- Pour the batter into two greased and floured pans. The batter will be thin, but that’s fine!
- Bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Loosen the edges of the cake with a knife, then turn the cakes out on parchment paper or a wire rack to cool completely before you frost them.
Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate Buttercream
While the cakes are cooling whip up the peanut butter frosting and the chocolate frosting. They key with both is to beat the butter first until it is almost white in appearance. Then add the rest of the ingredients. We like to use a stand mixer to beat homemade frostings because they end of the lightest and fluffiest that way!
How to Put Together a Layer Cake
- Place one cake layer on a cake plate.
- Spread on the Peanut Butter Frosting on one half.
- Then put the other cake on top.
- Spread that delicious Chocolate Buttercream Frosting all over the top and sides of the cake. If your cake is not even, just make the icing a little thicker in the places it needs to be to make an even-looking cake.
At this point, you could stop. After all, the cake will look and taste delicious as it is!
I like to decorate cakes, so I took this cake one step further. You can do it too if you want. It’s really not as hard as it looks.
Decorating a cake with Wilton Tips
- Take a Wilton 2D tip and put it in an icing bag. Fill the bag with icing and squeeze the frosting down to get out the air bubbles.
- You can decorate it any way you want and with any tip you want, but to get the look that I have on this cake, just squeeze until your star is the size you want it and pull away to make a flower. I put flowers all around the top and bottom of the Reese’s cake.
Decorate a cake with Reese’s
The Reese’s peanut butter cups are pretty much the last step. Cut them up into small pieces and sprinkle them over the top as desired.
If there is a little Reese’s piece that looks lonely, eat it. 🙂
And here is your spectacular Reese’s cake!! I’m telling you, this is only a part of our chocolate and peanut butter obsession. You’ll find cookies, brownies, candies and ice cream. We’re always dreaming up new Reese’s creations!
Serve this delectable Reese’s cake with ice cream. Eat it with your family or give it to a friend. But whatever you do, don’t leave it with your dog!!! {Don’t ask me how I know this!}
Tools to Make This Cake
- Stand Mixer: A hand mixer will work, but I always find it easier to make frostings with a stand mixer.
- Beater Blade with Scraper: The best invention ever!
- 9” Round Cake Pan: These are my favorite pans!
- Straight Icing Spatula: The long straight spatula makes it easy to smooth frosting.
- Wire Cooling Racks: This will help your cakes cool more quickly.
- Wilton 1M Tip: For piping pretty swirls on cupcakes.
Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate Layer Cake:
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 2 large eggs (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup freshly brewed strong hot coffee
Peanut Butter Frosting:
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tablespoon milk or heavy cream
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 recipe Chocolate Buttercream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 round 9-inch cake pans.
- For the cake, put flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix well.
- In a stand mixer, mix the buttermilk, oil, eggs, vanilla together. Slowly add in the mix of dry ingredients while the mixer is on low. Add the coffee and make sure everything is combined. The batter will be very thin.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Turn the cakes out onto a cooling rack. While the cakes are cooling, make your frostings.
Peanut Butter Frosting:
- In a bowl, blend together peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, and milk 3-4 minutes or until light and fluffy.
Make the Chocolate Buttercream.
- Now it's time to put your cake together!
- Frost the top of the first cake with the Peanut Butter Frosting. Then layer the other half of the cake on top. Frost the outside of the cake with the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
- Pipe flowers on top with the leftover Peanut Butter Frosting and/or decorate as desired with chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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Jana Smith says
I quadrupled your recipe to make my son’s Groom’s cake a year and a half ago…wedding cake left over but not a CRUMB of the Groom’s cake! He just asked me to make it for his birthday this week! So relieved to find the recipe still on the internet…Thank you for being a part of cherished family memories! Jana Smith, Denton Texas
Kristen says
This cake is amazing! Made it for a friend’s birthday and it was delicious.
Clara says
So easy to make and delicious! The peanut butter frosting was enough to frost the entire cake.
Molly says
Thank you for this recipe. I recently have found a passion in baking and my family loves this cake. It’s always being requested. I owe it all to you.
Ellie says
My dad loves Reese’s, so I made this for him years ago. He LOVED it, and still says this is the best cake I’ve ever made!! Thanks so much for the recipe!!
Rabia Qureshi says
I baked by this recipe. It’s really easy to follow and tastes good but heavy … 💗
Thank you
Sam says
One of you three girls is the Mozart of cake baking–truly a genius. I will never back another cake. Angels sang on high with every bite. I made this cake for my wife on her birthday which incidentally falls on Panamanian Independence Day (“google” it). I got lucky that night and it wasn’t even pay day. Yippee!
Brandy says
This cake was really delicious! I put the peanut butter icing on the outside & put the chocolate in the center & swirls on the top along with halved Reece’s cups. It tasted awesome. I will certainly put this in my recipe book. A friend requested it for her birthday.