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This chocolate dump cake gets all crazy delicious with a sprinkling of chopped peanut butter cups over the top! Best part: Only 4 ingredients!
Lately, I’ve been on a bit of a cookie kick. We’ve been making my perfect chocolate chip cookies pretty much nonstop over here. It’s starting to become a problem for a couple of reasons.
Number 1: I’m gaining weight. For serious. Can’t stop, won’t stop with the cookie consumption.
Number 2: I have no desire to bake any other type of dessert, ever. I want cookies and nothing but cookies. Gimme all the cookies.
So, as a human being, number 1 sucks a lot. As a food blogger who has to come up with new baking recipes to keep y’all happy, number 2 sucks a lot.
I think I need to go on strike against the cookies.
Anyway, the other day I compromised with myself. I made cookies AND a new dessert for you guys. Seems reasonable, right?
I took a super simple dump cake recipe and spiced it up with a hefty sprinkling of peanut butter cups. Remember this chocolate dump cake? Same idea, new topping.
This is a really dense, fudgy cake. There is no frosting, which I generally do NOT like in a cake, but it works in this one. Promise. If you’re looking for an even fudgier dessert, give my homemade brownies a try. They’re to die for.
Give this recipe a try and let me know what you think!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 small box instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 cup chopped peanut butter cups
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Add cake mix, pudding mix, and milk to a medium bowl and whisk together until combined.
- Spread into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the chopped peanut butter cups.
- Bake 25 minutes or until the edges are pulling away from the pan and a tester comes out mostly clean.
Laney says
Can you freeze chocolate peanut butter cake
Karly Campbell says
I haven’t tried, but I think it would freeze fine.
Angie says
Where do you find recipe card?
Karly says
Hi Angie! The recipe is located at the bottom of the blog post above the comment section.
plasterer bristol says
This sounds really nice. gonna make this for tea tonight. Thanks. Simon
AmyK says
A strike against cookies??? SAY IT AIN’T SO. Cookies are the perfect dessert, so I don’t blame you, haha! And these look amazingly decadent. My god I want to reach into my screen and grab it.
Deirdre says
I’m just checking no eggs needed? Thanks for replying. I just don’t want to screw anything up b/c this does look delicious.
Karly says
No eggs needed! 🙂
Heather says
Do you think this would work with almond milk?
Karly says
I don’t have a lot of experience baking with almond milk, so I can’t say for sure. If you’re normally able to make that swap, then yes, I think it would work fine. 🙂
Erin @ The Spiffy Cookie says
Sweet glory this cake is far too easy and therefore much to dangerous! I will have to save this one for football season thought when I have people over to watch a Buckeye game cause I always like making something peanut butter and chocolate for dessert!
Maya | Wholesome Yum says
This looks delicious! Love chocolate and peanut butter anything.
Bhajan says
This sounds delicious
Ellen rainbow says
You don’t give the amount of milk or the cooking time. For the chocolate and peanut butter cake
Karly says
It’s in the recipe card.
Jennifer says
Can I use low fat milk or does it have to be whole milk?
Karly says
I think either would work fine.
Angie says
Where is the recipe card? I can’t find heating temperature, length of time or how much milk
Kim Lee says
I totally need this deliciousness in my life and I’m loving your video. They look so easy to make… which could be a little dangerous. 🙂
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
I understand-I’m a real cookie addict myself. But if I were to make a non-cookie thing….this cake is def IT!
Gwen says
You lost me at boxed cake mix
Jessy @ The Life Jolie says
I love desserts like this that require very few ingredients to be delicious! This will definitely be a hit with my whole family- I also think it has game day written all over it!!
Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy says
YUM…I just want to face plant in that!! We have been the same way with no-churn homemade ice cream in my family. ALL. Summer. Long.