Fluffernutter Chocolate Cake

You favorite chocolate cake covered with peanut butter and marshmallow swirled icings.

Sometimes cakes don’t work out like you want them to.  But sometimes, they turn out better.

This cake actually started out as a recipe for “salted caramel fudge cake” but frankly all I got was chocolate cake.  Certainly not enough to stand on its own!  As a result, I did what any normal person would do, went into my freezer for my collection of “extra buttercream” and went to town.

What, not everyone stores “extra buttercream” just because?  I highly recommend it.  Good things happen when you do!  See also: Brownies with White Chocolate Buttercream and Mocha Ganache. Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches and Macarons

Anyway, I decided it had been way too long since I made a dessert revolving around chocolate and peanut butter (has it seriously been since July?!).  That is a travesty that needed to be immediately fixed.  And fixed it was.

The result:  I convinced myself that I was slicing the cake for photos and taking a bite for photos… but that bite turned into way more cake than I should be eating these days.  Oh, but in the moment it was so worth it.

Fluffernutter Chocolate Cake

 

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You favorite chocolate cake covered with peanut butter and marshmallow swirled icings.

Author: Lauren Lilling

Recipe type: Dessert

Makes: 15 servings

Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake baked in a 9x13 pan, cooled (can use box mix or something easy like this 1-bowl chocolate cake recipe
• 1 batch Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting (recipe below)
• 1 cup (1/2 of batch) Easy Marshmallow Buttercream (recipe below)

Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting

• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
• 1¼ cup creamy peanut butter
• ½ cup powdered sugar

Easy Marshmallow Buttercream

• ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• ~7 ounces marshmallow fluff (amount in a small jar)
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Spread peanut butter frosting over entire cake
2. Drop spoonfuls of marshmallow buttercream over peanut butter frosting layer
3. Use the back of a knife to carefully swirl the marshmallow buttercream into the peanut butter frosting (any kind of marble effect will work!)
4. Cut and serve

Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting

1. Beat butter until light and creamy; beat in peanut butter until creamy and smooth
2. Mix in confectioners’ sugar on low speed just until combined and then beat for a couple of minutes until light and fluffy

Easy Marshmallow Buttercream

1. Cream butter on high speed until light and fluffy
2. Add fluff and combine on high speed until smooth
3. Add sugar and mix on low speed until combined; increase speed to high
4. until light and fluffy
5. Mix in vanilla on high speed until combined

Notes

The frostings really speak for themselves here, so I won't tell if you use your favorite chocolate cake mix
If you want it to be even more peanut buttery, use the Reese's Pieces Cake Bars recipe with the Easy Marshmallow Buttercream shown here

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