90% of the time I do try and bring you original recipes. Ones I have created and tested on Michael, just to make sure he isn’t ill or drops down with a server case of food poisoning, (hey someone has to taste test them)! 😉

Occasionally I will share a recipe from another blog or from one of my many (and I mean many), cookbooks. Always giving credit where credit is due.

This recipe for, Insane Chocolate and Peanut Butter Sheet Cake came about in a fit of desperation of sorts. I had suffered 3 kitchen fails in a row and 2 rather dubious attempts at other “home” created recipes. I had convinced myself I had forgotten how to bake!















Honestly, it would have been less stressful just throwing the money straight into the bin and bypassing the oven.

With blog deadlines looming I needed to get myself together. Not trusting myself to create a recipe I needed something with the ultimate comfort food included chocolate and peanut butter I set about scouring the internet.















I had recently bought a new cake pan so I could make a sheet cake. (I have been watching far too much Ina Garten on Food Network). I actually struggled to find one but I did come across this recipe and I though what the heck I’ll give it a go.















I mention this in the baking instructions also, the original recipe states 30 to 35 minutes for baking. Picture me, nervous, convinced I could no longer bake checking my cake at 35 minutes (I have a slow oven) and its still almost raw batter. Panic stricken I ran back to the internet page and saw that the directions I was reading was for two 9 inch round pans. Doh!

I left the cake for another 20 minutes and it baked perfectly. Because I wanted peanut butter to make myself feel a little better. I frosted this cake with a cream cheese peanut butter frosting and threw a ton of peanut butter candy at it.















The cake is a rich moist chocolate cake, with an insane amount of peanut butter goodness on top! It sure made this girl feel better about herself 😀 And as an added bonus it was even more chocolaty the second day as the cake matured 😀

I know we all have baking disasters and in hindsight, they are funny. But at the time its like the world has ended! Have you had days like that?

Original recipe from Sherry over at My Best Cookbook.

If you live in the UK and have issues with cream cheese frosting check out this post where I explain how to beat the gloopy mess that can happen with this type of frosting.