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Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting {& a Giveaway}

February 11, 2015 by Cate 20 Comments

Fluffy yellow cake is iced with a peanut butter chocolate buttercream frosting. This birthday cake is the perfect treat to make for a chocolate peanut butter lover!
Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

Happy 2nd Birthday to Chez CateyLou! My little blog is two years old today! And to celebrate, I made a birthday cake!  Because birthdays need cake.  And sprinkles.  Lots of sprinkles!

Our absolute favorite dessert flavor is chocolate peanut butter. TheBetterHalf and I are crazy for anything with that combo. Muffins. Brownies. Cookies. Cake. I even made peanut butter chocolate chips pancakes for breakfast this weekend (must share that recipe with you ASAP!) So when I was deciding what kind of cake to bake for the big 2nd birthday, I knew that chocolate and peanut butter had to be involved – Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting, and a little extra peanut butter filling in the center.  This is one amazing cake!!

And to celebrate Chez CateyLou’s 2nd birthday, I’m hosting a giveaway of $50 to Amazon!!  Scroll to the bottom of the post to join the party (aka enter the giveaway)!!

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

If you are a regular reader of this blog (and if you are, thank you!!) then you know that I do not bake many cakes. In fact, there is only one other layer cake on the blog – and it was to celebrate Chez CateyLou’s first birthday!  I love eating cake and I think that they are so pretty, but I just never make them. They take a long time to make and I am horrible at decorating them, so they just never make it on my “to-bake” list.  But since I celebrated the first blog birthday with cake, I knew that I wanted to celebrate the second one with cake too!  I like this little tradition.

Last year’s cake was a chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream.  So this year, I decided to do a classic yellow birthday cake and make a chocolate peanut butter buttercream frosting.  SO GOOD!  And just to gild the lilly, I added some extra peanut butter to the middle of the cake.   This is one rich, decadent, delicious cake…we couldn’t stop eating it!

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

A really fun and easy trick for decorating a cake is to use a cookie cutter to make a shape with sprinkles on the icing! Just make sure you do it right after you ice the cake, so the sprinkles stick to the icing.  It is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays or holidays.

I did not plan ahead and therefore did not have a 2 cookie cutter on hand. So I had a little arts and crafts session. I cut a 2-shape out of some sturdy cardboard using a razor blade (which I happen to have for scoring bread dough) and then used that as a sprinkle stencil. It did the trick, but a cookie cutter would be MUCH easier.

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting | ChezCateyLou.com

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Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting

Yellow Birthday Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients

    For the Cake
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup milk, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups (7 ounces) cake flour
  • 1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 16 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 16 pieces and softened
  • For the Frosting
  • 1 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup peanut butter (+ 1/4 cup for center)
  • 8 oz chocolate, melted and cooled
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

    For the Cake
  1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9-inch round cake pans, line with parchment paper, grease parchment, and flour pans.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla.
  3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt on low speed until combined. Add butter, 1 piece at a time, and mix until only pea-size pieces remain, about 1 minute.
  4. Add half of egg mixture to the flour mixture, increase speed to medium-high, and beat until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Reduce speed to medium-low, add remaining egg mixture, and beat until incorporated, about 30 seconds (batter may look slightly curdled - this is ok). Give the batter a final stir by hand to make sure everything is evenly distributed.
  5. Spread batter evenly in the two prepared pans and smooth tops with rubber spatula. Bake until tops are light golden and toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs, 20 to 23 minutes. Let cakes cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove cakes from pans, discard parchment, and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours. Make sure cake has cooled completely before icing.
  6. For the Frosting
  7. Beat the butter and peanut butter together until smooth. Add the chocolate and mix until well combined. Add the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, and salt and beat on high speed until icing is light and fluffy.
  8. Place one of the cake layers on a cake plate. Add some frosting on top and spread evenly. Heat the 1/4 cup peanut butter in the microwave for about 20 seconds, until slightly soft but not hot. Spread the peanut butter evenly over the frosting. Add the second cake layer on top of the filling. Frost the rest of the cake. Decorate with sprinkles as desired.

Notes

Yellow cake recipe from America's Test Kitchen

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And now for the party favor…a GIVEAWAY of $50 to Amazon.com! Happy Birthday CCL!  Good luck and thanks for reading and entering!

 

This is how we celebrate birthdays around here!

Birthday Brownie Pudding (Cate’s 29th)
Birthday Brownie Pudding | chezcateylou.com

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting (Chez CateyLou’s 1st)
Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting | chezcateylou.com

Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownies (TheBetterHalf’s 29th)
Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownies | ChezCateyLou.com

Funfetti Cookie Dough Brownies (Cate’s 30th)
Funfetti Cookie Dough Brownies | ChezCateyLou.com

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Comments

  1. Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says

    February 11, 2015 at 10:50 am

    HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY!!!!

    This cake is the perfect way to celebrate the occasion-that pb chocolate frosting is TO DIE FOR!

    Reply
    • Cate says

      February 11, 2015 at 8:57 pm

      Thank you so much, Kayle!! I couldn’t agree more about the frosting…I couldn’t stop licking the bowl…

      Reply
  2. Nora (A Clean Bake) says

    February 11, 2015 at 11:00 am

    Happy happy happy birthday CCL! You guys really know how to do it up right. This cake sounds amazing and the sprinkle-cookie cutter method is such a great idea!

    Reply
    • Cate says

      February 11, 2015 at 8:58 pm

      Thank you so much, Nora!! We certainly like to celebrate!!

      Reply
  3. Ilona @ Ilona's Passion says

    February 11, 2015 at 11:59 am

    What a delicious cake! Perfect for a Birthday! Great giveaway

    Reply
    • Cate says

      February 11, 2015 at 8:59 pm

      Thank you so much, Ilona! I hope you win 🙂

      Reply
  4. Nancy @ gottagetbaked says

    February 11, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    Happy second year blogiversary, Cate! Your space is one of my favourites on the internet – everything you make is beautiful, delicious, and your writing always brings me back for more. This cake looks too legit – I LOVE a classic yellow cake and that peanut butter spread in the middle is brilliant. I love eating cake and while I make a lot of them, I never feel like my decorating is up to par so I can totally commiserate with how you feel. Never fear – this one is beautiful. I’m impressed with the stencil you made – that’s totally beyond my skill set! Here’s to many many more years of Chez CateyLou!

    Reply
    • Cate says

      February 11, 2015 at 9:00 pm

      Thank you so much for your sweet comment, Nancy! You made my day! One of the best things about blogging is all of the amazing people I have (virtually) met, like you! I hope that we get to meet in person before CCL’s third birthday! xoxo

      Reply
  5. Megan - The Emotional Baker says

    February 12, 2015 at 10:38 am

    Yea! What a great 2 years it’s been and what a terrific cake! I take yellow cake any day!

    Reply
  6. Patricia @ Grab a Plate says

    February 12, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    What a great way to celebrate with this delightful cake! Love the extra bit of PB in the middle! Happy 2 years – congrats!

    Reply
  7. Beth says

    February 12, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    Layer cakes have been on my bucket list for a long time! Awesome job friend!

    Reply
  8. Katie says

    February 12, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    HAPPY HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY, CATE! It’s been so fun to reconnect over blogging. I’m a huge fun of your blog and I can’t wait to see all you come up with in the future. xo

    Reply
  9. Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious says

    February 12, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    I nominate YOU to make MY birthday cake!

    Reply
  10. Jen @ Yummy Healthy Easy says

    February 13, 2015 at 12:54 am

    Happy 2nd Birthday Chez Catey Lou!! I am so excited to see what your amazing blog has in store for us readers in the years to come! And this cake…OMG yum!!!

    Reply
  11. Ashlyn @ Belle of the Kitchen says

    February 13, 2015 at 3:21 am

    This cake looks gorgeously delicious and happy birthday to your amazing blog, girly!

    Reply
  12. Meg @ The Housewife in Training Files says

    February 13, 2015 at 8:15 am

    Whoop! Whoop! Happy anniversary! I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate than with cake!!

    Reply
  13. Andi @ The Weary Chef says

    February 16, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    I love this cake and that sprinkles two and the fact that you made a cake for your blog’s birthday. Congratulations on this milestone, Cate. I’m proud of you!

    Reply
  14. ellen beck says

    February 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    Happy bllogversary!

    Reply
  15. Chris @ Shared Appetite says

    February 24, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    Woohoo!! Happy 2nd blogiversary!!! So happy to have become blogging buds with you and finally got to actually meet in person this past fall! Wishing you lots of continued success on Chez Catey Lou!!!

    Reply

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