This is a funny little recipe. It only has four ingredients and requires no baking. I used to make this cake when my boys were little and it always amazed me. I was looking through my recipes the other day for something and came upon this and had fond memories of it. I can't even remember where I got this recipe from anymore, but it's a winner.
How does a cake require no baking? It's made from chocolate graham crackers and after you've frosted the crackers and let the cake sit for several hours, they soften up and become cakelike. No kidding. It works very well. You make two frostings, one with peanut butter and one cheap jerseys with chocolate. It's easy and a great makeahead little cake with very little effort.
The frostings are definitely worth making from scratch. They are basically just flavored whipped cream frostings, one peanut butter and one chocolate, and they are light and fluffy and absolutely delicious.
Chocolate Peanut Butter NoBake "Cake"
In a small saucepan, over low heat, combine 1/4 cup of the cream and the peanut butter chips, stirring just until melted and smooth: pour into a bowl. Repeat with the milk chocolate chips and another 1/4 cup of the cream; pour into another wholesale nfl jerseys bowl. Refrigerate both about 15 minutes until cook, but not firm.
In a medium bowl, with mixer on high speed, beat remaining cream just until stiff. Gently fold half of the whipped cream into peanut butter mixture, 1/2 cup at a time. Fold remaining whipped cream into the chocolate mixture, 1/2 cup at a time. Refrigerate milk chocolate whipped cream.
Spread each of 10 whole chocolate graham crackers with about 21/2 tablespoons of the peanut butter whipped cream. Sandwich together coated crackers to form 2 stacks (5 cookies per stack). Top each stack with 1 plain graham cracker. Arrange stacks, side by side, on a serving plate, long edges touching. Frost with milk chocolate whipped cream.
I made a CHOCOLATE SOUR CHERRY (UK) version of this recipe, which was absolutely delicious! I substituted digestive biscuits (Whole Earth) for Graham crackers, milk chocolate buttons for choc chips and sour cherry for peanut butter chips. The jam (=jelly in the US) is a homemade mixture, made from dried sour cherries soaked in water with a little Kirsch, then cooked down for a while with some sugar, to create a little syrup. I reckon other kinds of jam (jelly) could be used too. Incidentally, because digestive biscuits are circular, I made individual round cakes instead of one large square one. Very cute. Many thanks for a great recipe.