Chocolate Cake and PB Frosting

             Okay just a quickie post for myself and a friend.  Here is a cake from last year (Holley's Birthday), and is now to be revisited this year (Hope's Birthday) in the form of cupcakes.                                           

CAKE:

1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil’s food cake mix

1 box (4-serving size) chocolate INSTANT pudding and pie filling mix

3 eggs

1 1/4 cups milk

1 cup vegetable or canola oil

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips              

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees

Grease 2 nine inch cake pans, then sprinkle cocoa powder (gives a better flavor and color than flour)

In large bowl, beat cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla  with electric mixer on low speed 1 minute. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Fold in chocolate chips and pour batter into pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  When cool wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour before frosting,  I used a peanut butter frosting recipe from AllRecipes.com here is the link: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/fluffy-peanut-butter-frosting/  You can adjust accordingly, I used a double recipe on both recipes to make the cake pictured.  I then made a "moat" of ganache.. link for that recipe is here: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/satiny-chocolate-glaze/detail.aspx.  I then chopped up and cut severeal types of Reese peanut butter cups and decorated to my hearts content.