Happy Birthday Peanut Butter Cake

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Happy Birthday Peanut Butter Cake

Food Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour 2 teaspoons Baking powder 1/2 teaspoon Salt 1 cup Creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or 2 cups Firmly packed brown sugar 6 Eggs 3/4 cup Milk 2 teaspoons Vanilla 1 jar , (10 oz) grape jelly 1/2 cup Creamy peanut butter 1/2 stk butter or margarine, softened 2 cups Confectioners’ sugar 5 tablespoons Milk, (5 to 6) 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Recipe preparation:
1 Grease and flour a 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In large bowl of electric mixer on medium speed, beat peanut butter, butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add milk and vanilla; beat until well mixed. Add flour mixture; beat until well mixed. 2 Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven 35 to 40 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Let cake cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes; remove cake from pan and let cool completely. 3 Cut cake in half horizontally with a long sharp knife or by marking the sides of the cake with toothpicks and carefully drawing a long piece of thread or dental floss through the cake. Using long metal spatulas, carefully lift off the top layer. Spread bottom layer with grapejelly. 4 Replace top layer. Frost cake with peanut butter frosting. 5 Yield: 1 cake. 6 FROSTING: In large bowl of electric mixer on medium speed, beat peanut butter and butter until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners’ sugar alternately with milk until frosting is a good spreading consistency. 7 Beat in vanilla. 8 Yield: Enough frosting for one 13-by-9-by-2-inch cake.

Recipe source: Foodista recipe