Chocolate Cake with PB Frosting

I saw this cake on Amber's Delectable Delights and was inspired to make it.  Alas, I was missing a few ingredients so I took her decorating ideas and frosting but used Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake.  I made this for our housewarming party and it was a huge hit!!  I didn't even get a piece (neither did C but I promised I would make him an entire cake for himself).

Reese's Peanut Butter Cake

as inspired by Amber's Delectable Delights

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake

2 C sugar

1 3/4 C all-purpose flour

3/4 C Hershey's Cocoa

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 C milk

1/2 C vegetable oil

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 C boiling water

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare 2 9-inch round baking pans

-Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl

-Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed for 2 minutes

-Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin)

-Bake 30-35 minutes or until wooden tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean

-Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks

Peanut Butter Frosting:

from Ina Garten

**I doubled the recipe and made 2 batches, which was MORE than enough

1 C confectioner's sugar

1 C creamy peanut butter

5 tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature

3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/4 tsp kosher salt

1/3 C heavy cream

Place the confectioner's sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.  Mix on medium-low speed until creamy, scraping down the bowl with a rubber spatula as you work.  Add the cream and beat on high speed until the mixture is light and smooth.

In between cake layers, I chopped up some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and put that on top of a thin layer of frosting before decorating.

Seriously...even though I did not get a piece, I was drooling as I was making it.

And please do not judge me for my styrofoam plate...bad for the environment and all, but we had a crapton of people over and I was not about to do dishes for 100 people.  Sorry.