Chocolate and Peanut Butter Trifle

Name: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Trifle
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter (softened); 1/2 cup shortening; 2 eggs; 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla; 2 cups sugar; 2 1/4 cups flour; 3/4 cup cocoa; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 1/2 cups water; 2 cups peanut butter chips; 2/3 cup milk; 3 cups mini marshmallows; 2 cups whipping cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 (4 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix; 3 1/2 cups milk; 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip; chocolate curls (optional); crushed peanut brittle (optional)

Submitted by Aroostook

"This is such a scruptious dessert.... Shhhh...Don't tell Smoke Alarm Jr. but this is her birthday cake!"

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Ready In:: 1hr 10mins
Ingredients:: 20
Serves:: 12

ingredients

Layer 1 Cake or use your favorite mix
¹⁄₂ cup butter (softened)
¹⁄₂ cup shortening
2 eggs
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons vanilla
2 cups sugar
2 ¹⁄₄ cups flour
³⁄₄ cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
1 ¹⁄₂ cups water
Layer II Peanut Butter Filling
2 cups peanut butter chips
²⁄₃ cup milk
3 cups mini marshmallows
2 cups whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Layer III Pudding
2 (4 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
3 ¹⁄₂ cups milk
Layer IV Cream
1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip
Top with
chocolate curls (optional)
crushed peanut brittle (optional)

directions

Cake: Cream butter, shortening and sugar in a large bowl Add egg and vanilla and mix well Combine dry ingredients in a small bowl.
Add alternately with water to creamed mixture.
Bake in a greased 9x13 pan at 350 for 35 minutes or until done.
Cool and break into small pieces.
Peanut Butter Cream: Place peanut chips, milk and marshmallows in the top of a double boiler over hot water.
Stir until melted.
Cool to lukewarm Whip cream until stiff Fold in vanilla and peanut butter mixture.
Mix pudding as per package directions.
Thaw Cool Whip and stir well.
Starting with chocolate cake add layers in a large clear bowl until ingredients are gone.
End with the Cool Whip Layer and top with chocolate curls and crushed peanut brittle.
Chill and serve.

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Aroostook

United States

Zaar...Wow, what a place! I'm one of the old timers of Zaar. I can't count the number of wonderful dishes I cooked in the past few years since joining. Along the way I have had the pleasure of meeting several Zaar chefs. Talk about your fruits and nuts! lol. I have enjoyed meeting them all. Family: What's to say...I have had the same sweet husband forever (Good thing....I'd hate to have to break a new one in...=) and live close to a couple of grown children. (Maybe you've met Smoke Alarm Jr. ..her brown rolls are sooo good!) Therefore, my family gets together often to enjoy each other's company and cooking. My greatest joy is six "little to tallerthanme" kids running around calling me Grammy. They wear me out! lol For the past thirty years I have been a Special Education teacher for grades 9-12 and love it. Took some time off last year to recovery from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer. (Loved the radiation....I keep imagining that we are absolutely napalming the nasty cancer cells tohellandback to keep the little suckers from returning. =) My prognosis is good and now "I'm back in the saddle again". lol. Being a north country "gurl", I am happiest outside...walking, fishing, sitting in front of an outdoor fire or being on water (although in February it's a bit stiff....=0) When indoors I like to read, garden, knit, quilt and paint. During cold Maine weather I like to warm my feet on a very large ( 100 pounds of long legs and huge feet), sweet and furry golden retriever named Kerry (aka KTBRD: Kerry the big red dawg..lol) . In the summer, the dawg and I round up the grandkids, hit the local dairy bar for a Mounds Sundae that is to die for!!!=0) . Then spend a lot of long and lazy summer days at camp . All in all...Boy, Life is good! =)

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