This is a great cake. The chocolate lover in your family will love it. The peanut butter lover in your family will love it. The “I just wanna be a semi-homemade type of cook” in your family will love it. It starts with a cake mix and you add some oomph! You bake it, you make a yummy filling and your frost it. Serve with milk and cut those slices small – this cake is rich!

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Cake:

• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 4.5 ounce package of instant milk chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup oil
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla

Filling:

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 stick butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Also needed:

• 6 ounces chocolate chips
• 1 can of milk chocolate frosting

Instructions

• Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans. (8 inch will also work, but then don’t use all of the cake batter – your pans will overflow!)
• Blend cake ingredients 4 minutes. Let stand 15 minutes.
• Put chocolate chips into batter and stir around.
• Pour batter; 1/2 each into one of the cake pans. Don’t worry if it’s thick – that’s okay!
• Make your filling at the same time, in a separate bowl and keep til later.
• Bake at 350 degrees until toothpick comes out clean from center of cake (about 35-40 minutes). Cool.
• Put filling between the two layers.
• Frost with milk chocolate frosting.
• Enjoy with milk or vanilla ice cream!

Jayme is a wife to 1 and a mother to three little boys. She coupons, but isn’t super extreme about it. She price matches and loves it! While she likes to cook, she’s in the stage of life where simple is usually better! She never knows how many hands she’ll have free at dinner time! You can find her at No Regrets Living.