Chocolate Fudge Cake with Peanut Butter Butter frosting and Chocolate Peanut Butter glaze...

This weekend we celebrated my grandparents' 50th anniversary. There's always a ton of good food at our family gatherings. I'll have a separate post just for the party food. For now, we'll stick with the cake. My grandma likes peanut butter a lot. Whenever I visit, I know I can find some form of Reese's candy in the fridge or in the cabinets. With that in mind, I knew I had to make a cake with peanut butter in it. I came across this recipe and it's a real winner.

To be honest, I don't always work from scratch. Betty Crocker makes an amazing triple chocolate fudge cake mix. I've used it a few times and people always say how moist the cake is. For this cake recipe, it fit the bill perfectly. And since I was making the frosting and the glaze, I didn't feel guilty about not making the cake from scratch.

I baked the cakes and after they came out, I started on the frosting. One word of advice would be to start slow with the mixer if you don't want it to snow confectioner's sugar in your kitchen. Aside from that, making frosting is pretty straight forward.

This stuff came out extremely thick. You'll want to mix it up really good each time you put some on the cake. The recipe from A Food Coma yields about 5 cups and that's more than enough to frost two 9 inch cakes. Make sure you let the cake cool completely before frosting it. You don't want to melt the frosting or tear up your cake. 

I didn't get a picture of me pouring the chocolate glaze on the cake because I had a hard time getting the morsels to melt. That's right, I messed up. Hard to believe? It happens all the time, I just don't take pics of it. Anyway, on the third try, I was successful at melting the morsels using a double boiler and a very small amount of oil. 

The finished product was super rich. I don't think I've ever had a piece of cake that I couldn't finish. This cake challenged my appetite and won. 

I still have a third of this thing left. Anybody want some cake?