Halloween Candy Cake
I was really happy to find a delicious, fun way to use my kids' leftover Halloween candy - Halloween cake recipes! I love Butterfingers and Reese's, so this is the perfect Halloween recipe for me...and you'll love it too!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted roasted peanuts
- 3/4 cup flour
- 6 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter
- 5 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 5 1.8-ounce packages Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, finely chopped
- 1 1/2 cup chilled whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 2.1-ounce Butterfinger bars, cut into 3/4-inch wedges
- 1/2 cup Reese's Pieces
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- Butter and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
- Grind nuts and 3/4 cup flour in processor until fine.
- Using mixer, beat eggs, yolks, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until mixture whitens and triples in volume.
- Fold in nut mixture.
- Divide batter between prepared pans and smooth tops.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
- Cool cakes in pans on rack.
Filling and Topping
- Blend peanut butter, butter and sugar in processor until smooth.
- With machine running, add cream through feed tube and blend until mixture is light and fluffy.
- Invert cakes onto work surface.
- Using serrated knife, cut each cake into 2 layers.
- Place 1 cake layer on platter, cut side up.
- Spread with 1/3 of filling and sprinkle with 1/3 of chopped peanut butter cups.
- Top with second cake layer, cut side down.
- Continue layering with remaining filling, peanut butter cups and cake, ending with cake, cut side down.
- For topping, beat cream, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until almost stiff. Transfer 1/2 cup to small bowl and reserve for garnish.
- Spread remaining whipped cream over top and sides of cake.
- Press nuts around base of cake forming a 1.5-inch high border.
- Cover top of cake with Butterfingers leaving 1/2-inch border.
- Spoon reserved whipped cream into pastry bag fitted with medium star tip; pipe stars around top edge.
- Garnish with Reese's Pieces.
