Birthday Peanutbutter Cake



Ingredients:
  • 1 box yellow/golden cake mix
  • 1 box vanilla pudding
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup 1 tbsp peanutbutter
  • 1/4 cup neutral oil
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • 3 tbsp cream
Cake Instructions
  1.  Preheat oven to 350 F
  2. Grease a cake pan
  3. In large bowl, mix together 1 box of yellow cake mix, 1 box of vanilla pudding, 4 eggs, 1 cup water, 1 cup peanutbutter, 1/4 cup neutral oil
  4. Mix until smooth
  5. Pour into prepared cake pan and bake 25-30 min
Icing Instructions:
  1. Melt 1/2 cup butter
  2. In a mixing bowl, place 1/2 cup melted butter, 1 tbsp vanilla extract, 2 cups icing sugar, 3 tbsp cream, 1 tbsp peanutbutter
  3. With hand mixer, blend until smooth
  4. Apply a layer to the top of finished cake
Yield: 1 cake

Source: WALES Cookbook

Tips:

In the picture there is pieces of Reese's Cups that Lee-Anne froze and then crumbled as topping. This was a nice touch but not a part of the original recipe

Description:

Before the pandemic, at my workplace WALES, we had a tradition of baking a cake whenever it was someone's birthday.  We had to scrap this tradition as the number of staff and people served got to a point that it wasn't practical. We used to keep a list of everyone's birthdays and their cake preferences. This recipe used to be my go-to.

For whatever reason, Lee-Anne has been of the opinion that a peanutbutter cake isn't feasible, so she's been making a treat with the same flavour for me on my birthday, just formatted differently. I've had pie, tarts, and cookies.

But when I was making the WALES Cookbook, I discovered an old Baking Cart recipe list. Same place I found the Nutter Butter Truffles. On this list, we had the original peanutbutter cake!

It took some decoding because the recipe used colours instead of amounts for the spoons and cups as a way to make it more accessible for the person it was written for. Since the Baking Cart ended, the equipment turned to general use and some of it has been lost. Fortunately, we still had enough to translate everything except the measurement for vanilla extract, cream, and peanutbutter in the icing. They are in increments of "brown spoons". With a combination of process of elimination and some common sense, we figured brown = tablespoon.

Final product seemed like what I remembered!

Spellcheck is always telling me that peanutbutter is two words, but that just feels wrong to me for some reason.

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