I’m back! I’ve been a tad busy recently, because my boyfriend left for college today and I wanted to spend some extra time with him. However, now that he’s gone, I’m back at the baking and ready to share my latest!

Here’s the story of my newest creation: I was feeling sad because my boyfriend was leaving, and his Grammy messaged me and suggested that I bake a “comfort food” cake to help me feel better. For me, that says ‘peanut butter and nutella sandwiches’. I decided to try her idea and see how it turned out, and if it was delicious, I’d call it the Grammy Cake! Now stick with me, here. No, I didn’t actually make a sandwich. What I did make was a moist, delicious, chocolate peanut butter cake with Nutella peanut butter frosting. If you’ve never tried peanut butter and Nutella, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! Even my dad loved this cake, and he likes neither cake nor Nutella!

Here’s how you make it:

Ingredients/Equipment:

• 1 chocolate cake mix (any brand should work, but I used Betty Crocker)
• 1/2 cup & 2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 jar Nutella (or chocolate hazelnut spread of any kind)
• A hand mixer and an 9×13″ baking pan

First, mix up the cake mix according to the directions on the box, and pour the batter into the baking pan. Then, put the 1/2 cup peanut butter into microwave for 30 seconds. It sounds unusual to heat it up, but from my experience of toasted peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches, I knew that the peanut butter gets warm and melty and delicious! Drizzle the melted peanut butter over the chocolate batter until the cake is mostly covered in peanut butter.

Then, using a knife or toothpick, swirl the melted peanut butter into the chocolate batter.

Bake the cake according to the directions for a 9×13″ pan on the cake mix box, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. It’s super cool- it stays all swirly after it’s cooked!

Let the cake cool completely before even thinking about frosting it, or else you’ll end up with melted frosting! When you’re positive the cake is cool and the bottom of the pan is cool, break out the Nutella. You can spread it on as thick or thin as you like! I did a fairly thin layer, because I wanted to save my Nutella for toast. After you frost the cake with Nutella, melt the other 2 tbsp of peanut butter and drizzle it over the top.

When you’re all done, it should look like this (or at least something like this):

This cake was for my boyfriend’s going-away party at his work, and it was gone in no time! The Grammy Cake got raving reviews, and my hat comes off to Grammy for such a brilliant idea. I hope you enjoy this cake as much as my family and friends did, and that the end of your summer is wonderful. For everyone going back to school, good luck and study hard!