Reese's Overload Cake

Reese's Overload Cake

Ingredients:

2 sticks butter
1 cup peanut butter
6 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

Directions:

•  Melt butter and peanut butter in microwave. 

• Add sugar and mix well. 
• Add eggs and vanilla and continue to blend. 
• Mix in flour and baking powder. 
• Divide into 2 pans. 
• Bake approx 35 min. 
• Cool completely. (freeze the cooled layers for easier frosting.)

Crustless Cheesecake portion:

1 stick softened butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2- 8 oz packages cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 oz. package cook & serve vanilla pudding
2 eggs
1 teaspoons baking powder
2 melted Hershey Bars
1/2 cup Ghirardelli bittersweet chips, melted

Preheat oven to 325 F. 

 

• Grease a 9" pan with shortening, line the pan with parchment and then grease the parchment, set aside.

• Cream butter and sugar. Add cream cheese a little at a time until smooth. Scrape bowl down and beat again on medium speed, adding eggs one at a time. 

• Add remaining ingredients. Mix until smooth. Pour in pan. 
• Smooth batter with spatula and bake for 50-55 min. 
• Cheesecake will puff up during baking, then it will deflate when taken out of the oven. 
• Do not turn out cheesecake when finished baking. Put directly in the freezer, and leave until frozen solid. 
• Remove for assembly.

Peanut Butter Frosting

4 cups icing sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons soft butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
few tablespoons of milk

• Beat peanut butter, butter, vanilla and 2 cups of icing sugar. 
• Slowly add rest of sugar and then the milk until the desired consistency to spread on. Add milk slowly. 
• Beat on high till fluffy!

Chocolate frosting:

1/2 cup + 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
3/4 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup unsalted butter, very soft
dash salt
1 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

• Heat cream in microwave and pour in mixer with cocoa powder and 3/4 cup icing sugar. Mix well. 
• Add butter, salt, 1 cup icing sugar, vanilla and whip on high. Set aside.

• Split chocolate frosting between one peanut butter layer top and the top of the chocolate cheesecake. 
• Layer it: peanut butter layer/choc frosting, chocolate cheesecake/frosting/peanut butter layer. 
• Frost entire cake in peanut butter frosting. 
• Push peanut butter chip and dark chocolate chips into the sides and top with 8 chopped peanut butter cups. 
• Keep chilled!!!

 

Enjoy...