Peanut Butter M&M’s Cake
A moist, peanut butter packed cake layered with fluffy peanut butter frosting and topped with colorful M&M’s for a fun, festive finish.
Ingredients
For the Cake
- All purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Unsalted butter at room temperature
- Creamy peanut butter
- Granulated sugar
- Eggs at room temperature
- Vanilla extract
- Buttermilk
- M and Ms
For the Frosting
- Unsalted butter at room temperature
- Creamy peanut butter
- Powdered sugar
- Heavy cream
- Vanilla extract
- Extra M and Ms for topping
Instructions
- Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans; set aside.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
- Beat butter and peanut butter until smooth and creamy.
- Gradually add sugar, then mix in eggs one at a time.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- Alternate adding the dry ingredients and buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry mix.
- Gently fold in the M&M’s.
- Divide batter between pans and bake at 350°F for 25–30 minutes.
- Cool cakes 10 minutes in pans, then transfer to a rack.
- Make frosting by beating butter and peanut butter, then adding powdered sugar, cream, and vanilla.
- Assemble the cake and frost the top and sides.
- Decorate with extra M&M’s.