Cooking in the kitchen

Today we baked one of my favorite cakes . . . ever, and it was delicious.  What might you wonder is this delectable dessert?  It is . . . wait for it . . .Peanut Butter Sheet Cake!  It is so peanut buttery and delicious and sweet and just damn tasty.  Now I found this recipe on Pinterest.  If you are not a part of this wonderful website then you are not living!!!! If you have even one crafty cell in your body, like to cook, try new recipes, fashion, or literally just about anything else you can imagine, Pinterest is a MUST! Now that I am done selling this fabulous mecca of creativity and ingenious ideas, back to THE CAKE. You can find the recipe on this blog. It is just so fantastic I can't sing its praises enough. Now if you don't like peanut butter, you're just wrong and something isn't right with you on so many levels!! You probably are not going to find this recipe to your liking. But if you are peanut butter fan like me and really that is the only way to be, this one is a winner.  I thought the kiddos might like helping me make this one since it has a ton of steps and one can be on the stove while one is mixing the dry ingredients and as you can see by their little faces they had a blast being little bakers.

They pretended they were on a cooking show and went to town mixing and sifting  and tasting of course. (Sometimes I wonder if the only reason they want to help is so that they can taste all the batter.) In the end it was decided they were both "sweet geniuses" and got to eat a spoonful of frosting as their reward seeing as mom does not have $20,000 to hand out.

Here is the cooling cake . . . yes that is my turkey roasting pan it is in. The recipe calls for a jelly rolled cookie sheet (which I don't have) so this is the only pan I have that is big enough to accomodate the cake.  Hey it works and without this picture you would never know!

This cake does have a bunch of steps, but it is soooooo good, and so it is worth it.  Word to the wise, I have made this cake with buttermilk substitute (milk with a bit of vinegar), because who in world has buttermilk just lying around in the refrigerator. Not me! I did find it to be moister with the buttermilk, but the difference is not huge.  Oh, did I mention how completely delicious this cake is.  It is like cake and peanut butter balls mixed together in complete deliciousness.  Normally I am a die hard chocolate fan, but this cake is chocolate free and is so terrifically yummy. If you do rally your troops and put on a little cooking show be prepared to make it again and again.  And dare you take it out of the house to someone's house, you will be hounded for the recipe even by people you don't even know . . . this I promise!

As for me and the babies, we had a blast tasting and making decisions on is it really sweet enough??? I mean can you really have too much sugar??? They are so funny when they try to be like food network tv.  Now whether the peanut butter cake will last til tomorrow? That I cannot promise!  Yeah, its that good.