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Opal's Peanut Butter Cake / Chocolate-Peanut Butter Frosting
Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups Sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons Baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Shortening -- room temperature
- 2/3 cup Milk
- 2 Eggs
- 1/4 cup Milk
- 2 tablespoons Peanut butter
Instructions:
Frosting
Ingredients:
- 6 ounces Package chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup Butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup To 3/4 cup sifted -- confectioners sugar
- 1 1/4 cups Peanut butter
Cake
Sift dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add shortening
and milk;
beat for 2 minutes at medium speed with an electric mixer. Add
eggs and
milk' beat for 1 minutes. Add peanut butter to batter; beat at
low speed
until thoroughly mixed.
Grease two 8-inch cake pans. Line with waxed paper; grease paper;
sprinkle with flour and shake out excess. Divide batter equally
between
the pans and bake at 350~ for 25 to 30 minutes.
For icing, spread with your favorite peanut butter while cake
is warm OR
use the Chocolate-Peanut Butter Frosting.
FOR FROSTING:
Melt chocolate chips and butter in a double boiler.
Add confectioners sugar and peanut butter and beat until smooth.
Chill
for about 15 minutes or until frosting is of spreading consistency.
SOURCE: More Tastes & Tales from Texas with love by Peg Hein,
copyright
1987, Sixth Printing Oct. 1991, ISBN #0-9613881-1-0. Format and Typing by U.
R. Taylor.