I am one lazy bum. -Peanut Butter Cake

So I have all these pictures of things that were baked and I'm just such a lazy bum that I don't put them on the blog. I know, I know, for shame.

Anyway it was recently my boyfriend's (Chris Redfield) mom's birthday and the day right before the birthday I was asked to bake a cake. As excited as I was about my first official request for a cake, it was also very hard because I had no idea what cake to make. She said "surprise me." So after a lot of debating it figured I'd make a Peanut Butter Cake.

So this is the first time I'm using two pans to make a double layer cake instead of jsut making this monstrosity and cutting it in half. the recipe for the cake part was pretty straightforward and simple. Then came the frosting.

I don't have any clue what mixing whipping cream until stiff means because I sat there mixing it and it stayed as a liquid. It got a little hard on the top and then it just stunk again. I later got advice on it from my boyfriend's aunt, but I feel like I'm just going to go back to the other peanut butter frosting I used for the Banana cake and Chocolate Banana Cupcakes.

This is the layer between the two cakes. It looks really yummy. This is also right before I had the grand idea of just pouring the still kinda liquidy frosting all over the cake and just letting it get hard in the fridge. The fridge part worked but pouring it all over the cake only worked so much before I realized that there was too much and it was spilling all over the table. I am so glad no one was watching me.

Pouring it actually made the marshmellows I put inside look really nice though. It was a huge monster cake and it was very yummy :D

The directions straight from Hershey's is:

1-2/3 cups (10-oz. pkg.) REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips
1 tablespoon shortening(do not use butter, margarine, spread or oil)
1 package (about 18 oz.) regular white or yellow cake mix (not pudding-in-mix type)
PEANUT BUTTER WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING(recipe follows)
HERSHEY'S Syrup
Chocolate curls(optional)

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and wax paper-line two 8-or 9-inch round baking pans.
2. Place peanut butter chips and shortening in medium microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 1-1/2 minutes or until smooth when stirred. Prepare cake mix as directed on package; blend in melted chip mixture. Pour batter into prepared pans.
3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
4. Frost with PEANUT BUTTER WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING. Refrigerate until serving time. Serve with syrup drizzled over top and sides of cake. Garnish with chocolate curls, if desired. Cover; refrigerate leftover cake. 10 to 12 servings.

PEANUT BUTTER WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING
1-2/3 cups (10-oz. pkg.) REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips
2/3 cup milk
3 cups miniature marshmallows2 cups
(1 pt.) cold whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Stir together peanut butter chips, milk and marshmallows in 2-quart saucepan. Heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until chips and marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth; cool to lukewarm. Beat whipping cream in small bowl with electric mixer until stiff; fold in vanilla and cooled peanut butter chip mixture. About 4 cups frosting.

Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Hey there! So today I wanted to make a Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting for my (Nommie's) boyfriend (Chris Redfield). So Yum Yums came over to help and this is how it alllll went down.

These are the bananas. They looked grossed and had like... slime or some shiny wet stuff on them. But they were good.
Yeah, they looked reallllyyyyy gross but tasted sweet and good haha
The stuff we had to mix together also looked gross too. I don't know why everything has to be gross before it is cooked.
And hereeeee is when I unknowingly thought baking powder and baking soda were the same thing since my entire life I have been just interchanging them. So in the later picture I will finally see the connection that I was told about xD
To make the frosting we had to cover it up so that it wouldn't get a film over it. I think that's gross too. I should start a count on how many times a recipe is gross before it's done because it seems to happen a lot.
The finished pb frosting was sooooooo good. I have some left over and I jsut wanna sit in front of my t.v. and eat it out of the bowl.
and here it is, the ridiculously low cake because as I learned from Yum Yums, baking powder does NOT equal baking soda. Lesson well learned although the cake still tasted reallllyyyy good and banana-y.
An overview shot of the finished product.
Nom Nom Nom Nom!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Cake-V/Detail.aspx <--- where the cake recipe is from. We didn't follow the whole thing because we substituted milk for the sour cream because the store near my house decided that it wasn't going to have any unless it had onion in it and all the yogurt had to have rasberry swirls. >:(

The Frosting Recipe is from a Hershey's bake... paper book thing.

1 cup of milk

3 tbsp flour

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup of shortening

1 tsp vanilla extract

"dash of salt" (whooo way to be descriptive)

Stir the milk into flour in small sauce pan over low heat, continously stirring until very thick (very thick wasn't "very thick" at all, I don't know what they were thinking). Remove from pan into bowl and cover with pastic wrap, pressing down so it touches it,so that no film (something else gross) can form. Cool at room temperature for 30 minutes. Then add all other ingredients and beat on high until fluffy and sugar is dissolved.

Cooking/Baking party :)

So my boyfriend co-hosted (originally he would have been the host haha) of a cooking/baking party and so we have some pictures of the two things we have baked. But frist a touching photo of my boyfriend Chris Redfield and the doggy he was dog sitting.

So now Nommie will post the cake made by Yum Yums. It was a strawberry vanilla cake. She makes everything herself but to my knowledge she never actually writes the recipe down? So everything (but the strawberrys, she can't make those) was made by her.

Delicious right? So now for my banana bread where the recipe I got from http://castirondarling.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-ever-banana-bread.html through the livejournal community of bakebakebake. I changed it around a bit, and used vanilla yogurt instead of plain yogurt and put some chocolate chips in and basically all the measurements were eyeballed (courtesy of Chris Redfield) because al the measuring tools were at my house xD

The next time I bake we have all decided we should video tape it because it is filled with drama. Eggshell drama, almost microwaving metal drama and the occasional dancing.

In the above picture you can see how Chris Redfield went crazy with the Pam. The Pam was butter flavored though so it didn't do anything to make the cake worse. All in all it was a yummy banana bread although it seemed like it took lnoger than the 15 minutes as said by the blog I got in on. It was more like... 45 minutes xD There's something wrong with the oven at Chris'.