Peanut Butter Frosting

[tephra]

Just something I wanted to try on my favorite chocolate cake (baked in a plain old 13x9x2" pan this time).

At the moment I'm reserving judgment, it's good, but I don't know if it's something I'll make again.

¹/₂ c butter (one stick), softened
1 c peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla (the real stuff of course)
4 c confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar/icing sugar/whatever they call it in your region)
¹/₄ to ¹/₃ c milk or cream

Cream the butters and vanilla until light and fluffy. Slowly beat in 2 cups of sugar then add ¹/₄ cup of milk to loosen the mix up before slowly adding the remaining sugar. Add remaining milk as needed to reach the proper consistency for spreading.

My favorite frosting for this cake is still this coconut frosting though.

Comments

[watanukisuki.livejournal.com]

:D I have a very similar chocolate cake recipe... with the boiling water at the end yielding the moistest chocolate cake ever. This peanut butter frosting sounds yummy... but the coconut one... OH MY! I love coconut frostings! One of my favorite cakes ever is something I saw in an old Southern Living called Robert E. Lee cake... a three-layer lemon cake with a white-based coconut frosting. *drools*

You know, you could make a 1/2 recipe of this peanut butter one, frost between the layers (or on top of the pan) and then put a darker chocolate glaze on top. Sort of like a peanut butter cup cake. Oh gosh... now I want frosting...

[tephra]

Ever since I made the coconut one with hazelnuts because I didn't have pecans on hand it has become my all time favorite. I could just sit there with a spoon and eat the frosting. :D

Peanut Butter Cup Cake... oh my. *mops up drool*