A classic Texas sheet cake spread with whipped peanut butter frosting and topped with mini buckeye candies. Chocolate peanut butter sheet cake is dessert perfection!
Texas sheet cake is one of my favorite desserts to make for a crowd. I've been making Your Home Based Mom's Texas sheet cake recipe for years, with a few adaptations. It's quick, it's easy, and it easily makes 32 servings. I love the classic chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, but swapping it out for my homemade peanut butter frosting? Um, yeah. It's incredible.
For an added touch I sprinkled mini buckeyes all over mine. The ultimate Buckeye chocolate peanut butter sheet cake. You're welcome, Ohio friends!
Funny story: We lived in Ohio for 4 years. It was the first time that either one of us had lived in the Midwest so we really knew nothing about Ohio or college football. We kept seeing OSU flags, bumper stickers, t-shirts, and quickly realized that we had moved to a college town (Columbus, Ohio). The thing that puzzled me was the OSU mascot. What the heck was it? I thought it was a monkey. My husband thought it was a bear. It wasn't until we had lived there for a couple of weeks that we found out that it was a buckeye nut. Ha! Brutus Buckeye. Derrick's coworkers thought it was hilarious when he told them.
Buckeye candies are found everywhere in Ohio, and for good reason. They are SO yummy! If you don't have access to these (I found mine at a cute country store here in Virginia), you can use mini Reese's cups. Yum.
I'm now looking for an excuse to go and pick up a few more packages of these. I'm thinking that Buckeye ice cream would be amazing this summer. How about you?
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Buckeye Chocolate Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
(scroll to the bottom for the printable recipe)
Are you ready to make your own?
The chocolate cake bakes up in 30 minutes.
Once the cake comes out of the oven you can get started on the whipped peanut butter frosting. This frosting is delicious on cupcakes, sugar cookie bars, and so many other things!
Traditionally, you'd frost a Texas sheet cake while it's still hot, allowing the frosting to melt like ganache. I think this peanut butter frosting is yummy with more of a whipped consistency so I let my cake cool first, but you can do whatever you'd like.
After it has been frosted, sprinkle with 1 ½-2 cups of mini buckeyes.
How long does it take to make chocolate peanut butter sheet cake?
30 minutes of baking time, 30 minutes of cooling time, plus 15 minutes of prep time for a 75 minute cake.
How many servings are in this chocolate peanut butter sheet cake make?
32 slices of sheet cake.
Can you frost the sheet cake while warm?
Yes, you can frost directly out of the oven and let the frosting melt and set up. I do this with chocolate frosting, but prefer to let the cake cool before frosting with peanut butter.
I don't have Buckeyes. What other candies can I use for this Buckeye sheet cake?
Mini Reese's cups, Reese's Pieces, a mixture of peanut butter chips and chocolate chips, or any other chocolate peanut butter combination would be delicious!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Sheet Cake Printable Recipe
Buckeye Chocolate Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cup all purpose flour
- 2 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup water
- ⅓ cup baking cocoa (cocoa powder)
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 1 Tbsp. vinegar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3 cup powdered sugar sifted
- 1 cup peanut butter creamy
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 Tbsp. milk
Toppings
- 2 cup chocolate peanut butter candies
Instructions
Cake Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Heat butter, water, and cocoa powder in a sauce pan over medium heat. Stir as butter melts. Bring to a boil then remove from heat.
- Slowly pour the butter/chocolate mixture over the dry ingredients. Stir.
- Mix eggs, milk, vinegar, baking soda and vanilla together in a small bowl. Add to the large bowl and mix until combined.
- Pour batter into a greased 12" x 17" baking sheet.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool.
Frosting Instructions
- Cream butter and peanut butter in a large bowl. Add sugar, vanilla and milk. Beat on high until fluffy.
- Spread over cooled cake.
Notes
Nutrition
LuAnn says
This recipe looks amazing delicious. Other than using a sheet pan. Is there other ways to make this? I'm well aware that this is a sheet pan cake. Just curious. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
Brandy says
I'm sure it can be made in a 9x13. It would be a thicker cake and the baking time would need to be adjusted. I haven't tried this before so I'm not sure what that time would be.