Recipe: Peanut Butter Chocolate Crust Cake

So your thinking...peanut butter and chocolate crust?? But its a cake?? Yes!
Under the thick layer of uber creamy peanut butter icing is a decent layer of chocolate "crust" which is nothing more than some melted chocolate chips but they give a nice but of hard crusty-like goodness to the cake. I made this up myself. yep. THIS kind of stuff is why I am fat guys. There is a reason for this! LOL

So anyhoo, here is your supply list:

FROSTING:
Confectioners sugar - 3/4 of a bag
1 stick of REAL butter unless you enjoy eating something that was invented to fatten turkeys but ended up killing them
about half a jar of peanut butter, more or less depending on how obsessed you are with peanut butter. I used about half a 16 ounce jar (smiles)

CAKE:
Any kind of vanilla cake mix
Any kind of vanilla instant pudding
About 1/3 cup of soymilk or regular milk if you still use it
1 cup of water
3/4 bag of chocolate chips
3 eggs or egg substitute if you wish
1 small serving size cup of activia vanilla yogurt, or about 1/3 cup of sour cream or plain yogurt

THE FROSTING YUM!

Here is how to make the frosting. Put your stick of butter in the microwave and get it soft and kinda melty. Pour in confectioners sugar until you get a really thick frosting, add some milk if you like. Add in your peanut butter and taste to make sure the peanut butter taste is stronger than the sugar taste. I tested mine a lot!

When its thick enough you will know it cause it will be kinda stiff like frosting in a can you buy, but this is SOOO much better and really dont take no time to make, you can do it while the cake is baking if you like. Just to kill time cause your going nuts smelling the cake...

Next MIX UP THE CAKE!

Put your dry ingedients in a bowl, cake mix, pudding mix. The add the 1/3 cup of milk, and 1 cup of water and your 3 eggs. Mix it up good...taste the batter, go ahead you know you want to...I wont tell...

Pour the batter in cake pans of your choice, and bake on 350 till its done...about 15 minutes?? ovens differ so keep an eye on it.

While cake is baking make the frosting.




When cake is done take it out of the oven and let it cool for a little bit, maybe 5 or 10 minutes however long you can stand it and then comes the fun part. The chocolate crusty part!





Take the chocolate chips and put on the warm cake, as they melt spread them around with a knife or something. till you get a nice coverage like so:






Pop this in the freezer for half hour or so...maybe not quite that long. you just want the cake to hurry up and cool off, if your more patient just let it sit out till its cool. Then you spread on the delicious peanut butter frosting you just made and cut the pieces and eat it....then regret it...slightly.

This picture was taken after I ate a piece...sorry. i was so excited it was done I forgot to take a picture of the pretty frosting job I did, I just went straight away and cut it and devoured a piece THEN I remembered I needed to take a picture...oh well LOL It was so darn good I had to share with you guys. ENJOY!

New recipe Mexican Chip Dip

This is my recipe I made for this awesome dip. I was inspired by a dish from a local restaurant....I didnt totally rip it off but its close...anyhoo! This can be made completely vegan with a few simple changes, for now its OK for milk consuming vegetarians
This is so quick and easy its almost WRONG!
Here is what you need:
A bag of tortilla chips
1 can of Hormel vegetarian chili
1 packet of Old El Paso taco seasoning
1 jar of Newmanns own PINEAPPLE salsa
about 2 cups of brown rice, or white whichever you like
A container of sour cream..they make this in vegan
Some cilantro,onion,cumin


First thing, put 2 cups of rice in a pot with enough water to cover the second knuckle on your index finger when stuck down to the top of the rice...yes these are precise measurements here. Put in about 2 or 3 teaspoons of the taco seasoning, a pinch or three of cilantro, and stir often as it cooks. For best rice cover it with a lid and simmer on low till its soft. This will smell real good in a minute.





While its cooking take your chili and add in about 3 teaspoons of the taco seasoning and some more cilantro...a pinch or three, and a handful of chopped onion. if you like hot chili add some powdered cayenne pepper Yee Haw! Cook all this stirring occasionally in a pot on low heat and just let it simmer while the rice is cooking. You should be drawing a crowd by now in your kitchen.






When the rice is done, layer a pretty decent layer of rice on a BIG plate, smooth it out all nice like so....








Then add your chili layer to the rice layer like so: Smooth it all out nice and purty...feel free to use the back end of your spoon to shoo away well meaning but now starving family members...






add a nice layer of salsa to the chili layer. The pineapple in this really sets it off! Mango salsa is great too!

YUM! If the crowd gathered about you is getting hostile dont hesitate to run them outside and lock the door cause your ALMOST DONE!





Now you can add some of that sour cream you been keeping in the fridge for this recipe. Just put some dabs of it here and there...I like sour cream sometimes so I put a LOT of dabs everywhere I could. Holler at the kids and tell them to hang on and quit beating each other its almost ready!





Now add some of those chips you had to hide under your bed to keep the hubs from stealing them, and your done! Call in the horde that has angrily gathered outside your locked front door and assure them you still love them with this.




I would have took a picture of it after we ate it but I was too full. It costs about 10 bucks to make this having to buy all the stuff premade except the rice. You can make your own chili from scratch and your own salsa and save some money...maybe. LOL

Have fun with it!