I made this cake for my husband for father's day. OMG! It is amazing.

It is a chocolate cake I do with coffee and mayo in the mix. I did a peanut butter and chocolate chip filling. It is left over buttercream I made mixed wtih chunky peanut butter and semi sweet chocolate chips. Then I melted chocolate chips with butter and spread over it to give it a chocolate shell.

OMG! Everyone had fits. I just wanted to share...there is no words to explain how good this is! I wish I could share it with all of you!

Sounds amazing! Enjoy!

Yum....My mouth is watering

This cake sounds delicious do you have a recipe with exact measurements that you could share. my grandsons birthday is in august and when i ask him what kind of cake he wants he always says chocolate and peanut butter he has never had that so we don't know why he picked that cake. but after reading about the one that you made. i think this would be the cake to try. besides i just want to try it for myself. thanks for any help you can give me.

Kasey I sure can.

Here is what I did:

Cake:
2 boxes of Dark Chocolate cake mix
2 cups AP flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups cold coffee
2 cups mayonaise (or sour cream)
6 eggs
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tbsp vanilla
2 of the small conatiners of chocolate pudding that is already made. (the snack packs)
1/2 cup of water

Mix it all up and bake it at 325. This actually made 2 10 in and 2 6 in and I had some left over.

Filling
I made buttercream:
1 cup crisco
1 tbsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
4 tbsp meringue powder
add water tbsp at a time until med. consistancy.

Once you have your buttercream set aside.
1 cup of chunky peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
mix in mixer
add powdered sugar until you have a thick paste.
Add in your buttercream and mix.
If still too thick add a little water or milk until spreadable.
Add 1 /2 small bag of semi sweet chocolate chips.

Hard Chocolate shell
1 1/2 small bags of semi sweet chocolate chips (12 oz bags)
2 tbsp unsalted butter
microwave until melted
Mix very well and pour over cake then spread with spatula.

It is really really easy and SOOOOO worth it.

I did the same cake for my step dad but instead of the shell I frosted it in the filling as well and put crumbled reeses on top. But I realllly like that shell.

thanks so much for this recipe and the quick reply. i am going to give this cake a try this coming week. i will let you know how it works for me. i can't wait- like i said "it sounds so delicious"
thanks again

I made a cake with the same idea for my brother's birthday last year and it was the best cake ever. It's my favorite too. I found a recipe and cake porn worthy pics of it at smittenkitchen.com.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake/

Can you taste ANY coffee in the cake? I have heard of people putting coffee in cakes, but I do not like coffee and I am scared to try it. This recipe does sound delicious.

That cake looks yummy yummy and yummy. Gonna definitely have to try the recipe, thanks for posting by the way.

dhccster...if the "right" amount of coffee is added, you shouldn't taste it at all, it enhances the flavor of the chocolate to levels unknown to man. LOL

Thank you joenshan, I am going to try this for my next chocolate cake order.

OMG - that sounds amazing! I've been thinking about doing a PB/Choc cake and this sounds like it will fit the bill! Thanks so much for sharing!

I don't drink coffee either and no you can't taste it at all, it just gives it a really full chocolate flavor. My stepson was eating a cake scrap and said "Patty what did you put in this cake, not that your other cakes aren't good but this is the best chocolate cake I have ever tried".

And by the way....we use decaf and it works well too if you are concerned about the extra caffine.

Yes, this is one yummy looking cake!!!!! I can almost taste it!!!!!!
And it is definitely "cake porn worthy"!
I'll have to try your recipe!
Thanks for sharing!

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "AP Flour"?

It is All purpose flour.

Yes, this cake is dense enough to stack and put fondant on.

It is All purpose flour.

Sorry....guess I need more coffee !!
Thanks!

The cake looks delish. YUM!

Thanks for posting this. I'll try this in the upcoming weeks for work.

Sorry but i just had to look at that pic again. your cake looks so yummy.... drooling... right... now....

ETA this was my version and it's not as pretty as yours

It looks delicious! I'm just not ready to make a cake that has mayo in it. I had a hard enough time with the sour cream. But one day maybe...

WOW! What a delicious sounding cake and the picture looks sooooo darn good. I like your idea with the filling. Could use Reese's also.

I used Pillsbury cake mix.

I hear ya on the mayo....I never would eat a cake that was made with mayo but I ran out of Sour Cream and had to make an executive decision one day and so I used mayo...OMG you can't taste it but your cake is sooo moist and I don't add extra oil since the mayo has oil in it anyway.

Peridot----I actually made the same cake for my stepfather too but I iced it completely in the filling and put chopped reeses on top.....It is in my pics. It was really good too.

Yum, thanks for sharing!

Have you put this in the recipie section yet? I would like to see it there so I can put it in my favs and not worry about where I may have put it!