Mom's Decadent Peanut Butter and Chocolate Birthday Cake
2013-07-04 22:27 - General
![The whole cake done, with peanut brittle topping.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04-21.23.35-th.jpg)
![The ingredients. Everything from scratch!](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 17.55.36-th.jpg)
![The three layers, freshly baked.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 19.19.22-th.jpg)
![The three layers, depanned to cool.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 19.51.04-th.jpg)
![The three layers, stacked.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 20.34.07-th.jpg)
![First layer of frosting complete.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 20.49.12-th.jpg)
![Peanut butter/ganache frosting layer added.](http://static.arantius.com/images/2013-07-04 21.20.13-th.jpg)
I'm home visiting Mom for the long 4th of July weekend I took. Her birthday is just over a week away, so I decided to bake her a fancy cake. She picked this amazingly decadent triple layer chocolate and peanut butter number. Triple layer chocolate cake, with peanut butter cream cheese frosting. Covered in a chocolate and peanut butter ganache, with peanut brittle sprinkled on the top. Still waiting for it to settle/cool. It's hard to resist digging in!