Peanut Butter Cup Crumble Cake

Finally some fresh baked goods to post about! Today I made a Peanut Butter Cup Crumble Cake. It begins with a basic moist chocolate cake layer baked in a 9x13 inch pan. Then it gets frosted with chocolate buttercream, scattered with chocolate peanut butter cup pieces, and drizzled with chocolate ganache. The final product is an indulgent combination of chocolate and peanut buttery goodness. 

Overall, the recipe is fairly simple and straightforward to make. The chocolate cake is from scratch of course, but it is an easy, one-bowl recipe where the dry ingredients are measured into a bowl and mixed, then the wet ingredients are added and the entire mixture is beaten together. The buttercream frosting is also one-bowl. The method for making the ganache is interesting; some buttercream is reserved then heated and thinned out to form a ganche. It leaves out an extra step of having to make a separate ganache, but it really adds to the overall taste and appearance of the cake. The peanut butter crumble is simply chocolate peanut butter cups that have been cut-up and scattered over the cake.