8th Anniversary Cake

The Husband and I recently celebrated our eighth anniversary, and I wanted to make it special. I bought a nice bottle of wine and made stuffed shells for dinner, and for dessert I made a cake that was inspired by the Peanut Butter Crunch Cake from PF Chang's. I have no idea what they use to get the crunchy part for their cake (a server told me it was peanut butter wafers but in my test cake this resulted in a very soggy filling), so I had to improvise and use Heath candy bars to get a good crunchy layer. This cake is good. Like, REALLY good. It's very rich and decadent, and is perfect for a special occasion! I hope you will love it just as much as we did!

8^th Anniversary Brownie Peanut Butter Cake

Brownie Cake ingredients:

1 cup butter

4 oz chocolate

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1tsp vanilla

1 cup flour

¼ - ½ tsp salt

1/8 tsp baking soda

Melt butter and chocolate together. Stir together remaining ingredients, then mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Spread into two 8” round cake pans, and bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes (test with a toothpick to make sure it's done). Allow to cool completely.

Frosting for the brownie layers:

3 tbsp butter

1 ½ cups powdered sugar

2 tbsp milk

2 tbsp cocoa

1 tsp vanilla

Melt butter, mix in remaining ingredients and spread over each brownie cake layer.

Filling Ingredients:

¾ cup peanut butter

1 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened

3 Heath bars

½ -1 cup whip cream (homemade, preferably)

Caramel sauce

Put heavy cream in mixer and mix until stiff peaks form. Add the cream cheese and peanut butter and mix. Smash the Heath bars into small pieces and mix into filling mixture. Spread half on top of the first brownie layer. Spread as much caramel sauce as you want on the top of the filling, then place the other brownie cake layer on top. Spread with the remaining half of the filling mixture, and put more caramel sauce on top of this.

Glaze to spread on top:

3⁄4 cup confectioners’ sugar

1⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa

4 to 6 teaspoons milk

Mix ingredients together and pour over the cake, allowing some to spread down the sides. Add crushed peanuts to the top and sides as well, if desired. Serve with whipped cream.