Peanut Butter Melt -Away Cake

Name: Peanut Butter Melt -Away Cake
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 18 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1/2 cup margarine; 1/4 cup baking cocoa; 1 cup water; 2 eggs, well beaten; 1/2 cup buttermilk; 2 cups sugar; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon baking soda (heaping); 1 teaspoon salt; 1 1/2 cups peanut butter, melted; 1/2 cup margarine; 1/4 cup baking cocoa; 3 cups confectioners' sugar; 6 tablespoons buttermilk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 cup peanut butter

Submitted by sue in pa.

"Not quite sure about the prep time, but is well worth it."

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Ready In:: 1hr 30mins
Ingredients:: 17
Serves:: 18

ingredients

¹⁄₂ cup margarine
¹⁄₄ cup baking cocoa
1 cup water
2 eggs, well beaten
¹⁄₂ cup buttermilk
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda (heaping)
1 teaspoon salt
1 ¹⁄₂ cups peanut butter, melted
¹⁄₂ cup margarine
¹⁄₄ cup baking cocoa
3 cups confectioners' sugar
6 tablespoons buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¹⁄₂ cup peanut butter

directions

Combine margarine, baking cocoa,water, eggs, and buttermilk in sauce pan mix well.
Bring to a boil, stirring often, remove from heat.
Add sugar, flour, vanilla, baking soda and salt, beat well.
Pour into greased and floured 9 by 13 cake pan.
Bake at 350 for 30 ninutes, cool.
Spread with melted peanut butter.
Chill until firm.
Combine margarine and baking cocoa in sauce pan, bring to a boil.
Add confectioners sugar, buttermilk, vanilla and peanut butter.
Beat until smooth,Pour over cake.
Chill until ready to serve.

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Reviews

The cake was a bit dense for my liking, but the icing was absolutely fabulous! It truly does taste like peanut butter melt-a-ways!

Clovis Ann
This is somewhere between 4 and 5 stars. Much better than just plain chocolate cake. The cake didn't rise too much, but it had enough layers so that wasn't much of a problem I would recommend melting the margarine before adding the other ingredients. Pretty easy to make.

djafishfria
This cake was fabulous!!! I made it for Mom on Mother's Day and she loved it! It's extremely rich and sweet, perfect for a special occasion. I accidentally used 1 cup of buttermilk in the cake and the cake turned out soft, more like a gooey brownie than an actual cake, but I don't know that I would make it correctly next time! Also, I only used about 1/2 of the frosting because it was only 1 layer and I thought the frosting would overpower it. You might want to make it a layer cake and put some frosting in between the layers because the specified amount of frosting would've been too much. Otherwise, it was fantastic, by far the best cake I've ever eaten!!!

slmst80