Dark Chocolate Cake w/ Peanut Butter Buttercream

By francesn

Ingredients

• For the frosting:
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 3/4 a cup of dark coco powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp of salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of buttermilk
• 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
• 2/3 of a cup of boiling water
• 2 sticks of room temperature butter (1 cup)
• 1 cup of cream peanut butter
• 2 cups of confectioners sugar
• 2 tbs of half and half

Details

Adapted from bakeaholicmama.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350.
Grease and Flour 2 8 inch cake pans. Set aside

In the bowl of your electric mixer stir together your dry ingredients. Add in milk, oil, eggs, vanilla and beat on medium/low speed for 2 minutes.
Stir in boiling water by hand.

Pour into pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans.

For the frosting:
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and peanut butter until creamy. On medium/low speed add in powder sugar than half and half until it is smooth.