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PEANUT BUTTER CAK
PEANUT BUTTER CAKE E
WITH FLUFFY
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
onfession time. One morning
SERVES: 16
when Chocolate from the PREPARATION TIME: 5 MINUTES
Cake Mix Doctor was nearly BAKING TIME: 23 TO 28 MINUTES
ASSEMBLY TIME: 10 MINUTES
completed, I was testing recipes for
my newsletter. One was a peanut
butter sheet cake with a wonderful Solid vegetable shortening for
greasing the pans
crunchy topping that bubbled up
Flour for dusting the pans
under the broiler. I took a single
1 package (18.25 ounces) plain yellow
bite and knew I had to make this cake mix
1
cake in layers and frost it with a 1 ⁄3 cups water
1 ⁄3 cup smooth peanut butter
creamy chocolate buttercream
1 ⁄3 cup vegetable oil
frosting. Since I had no peanut but- 3 large eggs
ter layer cake on my recipe list, I 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Fluffy Chocolate Frosting
suppose this
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cake was 1 ⁄2 cup chopped dry-roasted peanuts,
meant to be! for garnish
1. Place a rack in the center of the oven
and preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly
grease two 9-inch round cake pans with
solid vegetable shortening, then dust with
