Recipe: Delicious Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes

Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes. Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes My grandmother taught me this recipe. It is my favorite one of all. Today, I'm sharing a recipe with a big old root system behind it- Yellow Cake with Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing.

Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cake is a good old Southern potluck staple that's reached cult status. The hot peanutty frosting gets poured right onto the warm cake, and the whole thing gets showered with roasted peanuts. Beat butter in a bowl using an electric mixer until fluffy. You can have Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes

1. You need 1 box of yellow cake mix.
2. It's 1 stick of unsalted butter.
3. You need 6 tbsp of milk.
4. Prepare 1 lb of powdered sugar.
5. You need 1/2 cup of (generous helping) creamy peanut butter.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.

Add peanut butter, vanilla extract, and salt; beat until incorporated. Slowly pour confectioners' sugar into peanut butter mixture while continuing to beat with the mixer; add milk until desired thickness is reached. Old Fashioned Boiled Peanut Butter Icing I just love the old fashioned boiled icings because they are so different from the usual buttercream or cream cheese icing. Anyway, back to the peanut butter icing.

Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing For Cakes instructions

1. Pre heat oven to 350°F..
2. Bake cake according to box directions. Using a 9x13 baking dish..
3. Heat butter and milk in heavy saucepan..
4. Bring to a boil and stir constantly. Boil 2 minutes..
5. Remove from heat and add peanut butter and powdered sugar. Stir until smooth, over low heat..
6. It should start to turn glossy. Remove from heat and add vanilla..
7. Pour quickly over hot cake. Spread evenly and let cool..
8. After you add powdered sugar, if it looks to dry, just add a small amount of milk to loosen it up. A little goes a long way, so I use 1/8 of a teaspoon to start..

One of the ladies that worked in the lunchroom was famous for her peanut butter cake with peanut butter icing. Frosting is a fluffy confection while icing is a bit thinner and pours onto a sheet cake, coating it like a glove. And her peanut butter icing was out of this world. My homemade Peanut Butter Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting is an old school recipe that will quickly become a family favorite. You will find the moist cake loaded with peanut butter flavor.