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Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Crumble Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups sugar
1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
38 to 40 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Miniatures

One Bowl Frosting:
6 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
2-2/3 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 cup Hershey's Cocoa
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 350-degrees. Grease and flour a 13x9-inch baking pan. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
Meanwhile, remove wrappers from peanut butter cups and cut each one into 4 pieces. Prepare Buttercream Frosting. (*directions below) When it is made reserve 1/3 cup of frosting. Frost cake with remaining frosting. Sprinkle peanut butter cup pieces over frosting. Place reserved 1/3 cup frosting in microwave safe bowl and microwave on medium for 15 seconds or until pourable. Drizzle over frosted cake. Allow drizzle to set.


*TO MAKE FROSTING:
Beat butter until fluffy in medium bowl. Alternately beat in confectioners sugar and cocoa with milk until of spreading consistency (additional milk may be needed). Blend in vanilla.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
When making the frosting you could leave out the cocoa and add some peanut butter instead, if desired. Be sure to read this recipe over twice before making. The directions are kind of easy to misread.

 

 

 

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