Need Help With Cake Filling!!

crissy89

Hello Ladies! 

My SIL has a birthday coming up this weekend and I want to make a chocolate cake with a Reese's filling. Any idea on how I could go about doing it? Would I just take the candy and melt it down or would I make up my own filling to make it taste like the candy?

TIA!  

bensbaby116

Are you set on the idea of a smooth filling? If not, I think it would taste awesome to make a simple chocolate frosting-type filling, but mix in crumbled Reese's peanut butter cups before spreading it in between the layers. (Note: I've never tried this...but it tastes good in my mind.)  

crissy89

haha. No, I am not set on a smooth filling. However, the cake will be chocolate, the frosting will be chocolate (Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Frosting to be exact) and the rim of the cake will have Kit-Kat bars and the top will be covered in M&Ms. Reese's is my SIL's favorite candy so I definitely want to make sure she can taste it!

bensbaby116

That Hershey's recipe is one of my favorites!! What if you made a peanut butter frosting for the filling, and then mixed in tons of crused pb cups?

amandad18

What if you just used Reese's peanut butter? 

 http://www.amazon.com/Reeses-Peanut-Butter-Creamy-Pack/dp/B002J9J8QC

Budnotes

Wilton has a pretty good peanut butter filling.  I've used it to make homemade peanut butter cups.  It's the closest I've found to Reese's.  You can substitute creamy peanut butter for the chunky if you want a smooth filling.

http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Peanut-Butter-Filling

Good luck!