Thursday, July 29, 2010

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake with Baby Ruth Frosting Week 1

Ingredients:
1 package chocolate cake mix
1 cup creamy peanut butter
6 (2.1 oz) Baby Ruth candy bars, chopped
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margerine
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut (optional...I opted in for mine)
1/2 cup dry-roasted peanuts, chopped
2 large egg yolks

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.  Lightly grease and flour 13x9 inch baking pan.

Preparecake batter mix according to package directions, adding peanut butter before mixing.  Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean.  Cool completly in pan on wire rack.

Place chopped Baby Ruth and butter in medium, heavy duty saucepan.  Cook over low heat, stirring frequently,until Baby Ruth is melted.  Combine evaporated milk, sugar, coconut, peanuts and egg yolks in medium bowl.  Add to Baby Ruth mixture.  Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes or until thickened.  Cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes, stir.

Frost cake with Baby Ruth frosting.  Refrigerate cake until ready to serve.

1 comment:

  1. This cake was sooooooooooooooo good and very rich! After 30 minutes of cooling the frosting, it was still warm when I frosted the cake. I'm thinking it would have been good served then with maybe a scoop of vanilla icecream....just a thought.

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