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PEANUT BUTTER CUP EARTHQUAKE CAKE Made Easy with Box Cake Mix
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Mar 14, 2025
PEANUT BUTTER CUP EARTHQUAKE CAKE Made Easy with Box Cake Mix Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/peanut-butter-cup-earthquake-cake/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media
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hello everyone it's dessert day today
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I'm going to show you how to make a
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peanut butter cup earthquake cake we're
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going to shake up some layers first one
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we got to make the cake now we're just
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going to make the batter and then we're
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going to add other things to it don't
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follow the directions on the back of the
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cake box okay because we're going to do
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things a little
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different you guys are ready make sure
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you have a bag of peanut butter
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cups the first ingredient that we're
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going to add to a large mixing bowl is a
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devil's food cake mix you can use a
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chocolate flavored cake mix if you want
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to use that for this
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recipe now this box is 15.25 O size
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woo we're going to add in one cup of
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cold
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milk we're going to crack in four
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eggs I'm just going to use a little Bowl
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here
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one check for
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shells
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[Music]
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two three
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and
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four we're going to add one stick of
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butter half a cup bring it to room
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temperature I like to leave mine out the
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night before out on the counter if I
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know I'm going to be baking something
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and need soft butter if not you can just
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put it on a microwave safe plate put in
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the microwave for about 10 15 seconds
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and melt it that way we don't want like
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melted just softened butter
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put that in the
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freezer we're going to add in one
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teaspoon of vanilla
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extract there you go
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yay we always get that
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extra that's all some we're going to put
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in one cup of creamy peanut butter I'm
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going to measure it out you know it's
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good peanut butter if it's from
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Texas y'all that's where we're from
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we're in Katie
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Texas we're going to pop that right off
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of there oh perfect measurement I'm
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going to take an electric hand mixer
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we're going to cream this all together
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till it's well combined should take
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about 2
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minutes I'm going to turn on my
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timer about halfway through take your
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spatula and we're going to pull down the
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sides that way we get everything nice
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and mixed together
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you don't want the powder on the side of
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the
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bowl now it's going to be a thick
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batter all right we're going to slow it
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down pull it
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up we're going to take these off
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because we're got to go wash these and
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my
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hand now my hand
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too we're going to take a 9 by 13 B
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baking dish and we're going to spray it
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with some non-stick cooking
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spray sounds like it's running out of
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steam take your cake
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batter and we're going to pour it into
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our baking
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dish ohoo it's nice and
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fluffy now we're not baking it off yet
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so don't rush and put this in the oven
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okay we still got some things to do to
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it right we're just going to spread it
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out
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evenly all right we've got another layer
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to add before we bake this in the
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oven and another large bowl we're going
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to add another cup of peanut
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butter we're going to make it
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creamy I would have just licked that
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peanut butter right off that knife but I
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would w't be able to talk to y'all for a
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few
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minutes CU I'd still be trying to get
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the peanut butter eaten okay we're going
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to add a stick of butter again you want
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it to be very soft room temperature it's
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half a
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cup 1/4 cup of
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milk we're going to start blending this
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until it's nice and creamy
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W there we go all right we're going to
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bring over powdered sugar we're going to
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start incorporating two cups I'm going
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to go in like half a cup each time just
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add
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it and mix it in
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go with another
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one oh that peanut butter smells so good
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in
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there and this will be the last
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one and then we'll really incorporate it
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all
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together now it is going to be a thick
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Frost ing we're calling this a
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frosting all right I'm going to finish
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emptying off these beers and then bring
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you back okay now that we got this all
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Incorporated I'm just going to kind of
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smooth it out down there equal it out
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and then draw a line because we only
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want to use half of this right
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now I'm going to take a spoon and I'm
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going to take six large spoonfuls and
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just plop it around the cake batter
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you can use another spoon to kind of
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help you if you need
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to I'll save that half for
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later Hershey's syrup we're going to
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drizzle over the peanut butter frosting
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here kind of like a
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[Music]
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tablespoon there we
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go go get a knife and you're going to
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kind of swirl the chocolate into the
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peanut
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butter you know we want to make this an
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earthquake you can go into the cake
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batter just a little bit not a
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lot because this is a
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frosting go to the edges of the dish
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also you still want to be able to see
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the peanut butter layer the chocolate
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layer all in between and you want to see
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that cake okay that looks
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good we are going to use some mini
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups now these are
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unwrapped yay for us we don't have to go
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through all that
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trouble this is a 7 oz package here I
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got two of them we're going to use one
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of them for this layer right here so
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just take them cuz it's an earthquake
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and things are landing now right all
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over the
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place hey these are my favorite right
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here
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[Laughter]
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[Applause]
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Thomas is the
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earthquake I was trying to stop
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it y'all this is a really rich cake
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really fun cake to put
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together it's time for the oven I've got
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it preheated at
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350° we're going to bake this for about
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35 to 40 minutes until the Cake part of
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this is is done you want to make sure
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that you take a toothpick find the Cake
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part put it in pull it out and make sure
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that the batter is cooked through I'm
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going to come back because we have one
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final thing to do to this cake then
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we're going to give it a try because
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luckily for Thomas it doesn't have to
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sit in the refrigerator for four hours
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or
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overnight okay I've pulled the cake out
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of the oven it's smells amazing I I've
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already taken a toothpick I inserted it
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through the Cake part
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it's very firm it's done I went around a
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few pieces of it there we go we're going
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to let this rest for 15 to 20 minutes to
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kind of pull itself together and then
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we're going to finish it off okay we're
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going to go in to our peanut butter
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mixture that we saved that half of and
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I'm just going to spoon it all over the
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cake that's still hot so it's going to
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melt that which is what we want
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okay I think that's what I'm going to
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put on
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here we're going to take our chocolate
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syrup
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again we're going to take some of our
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mini peanut butter
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cups and just kind of place it
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around that way every will know what's
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in the
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[Applause]
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cake I'm going to cool this down I'm
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going to come back with a big slab of
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cake give it a try for
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you all right my peanut butter cup
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earthquake cake W look at
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that cutting through the cake it's like
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light and fluffy
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M if you like peanut butter and you like
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chocolate wow the layers in this cake
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are delicious it's
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scrumptious turn a simple boxed cake mix
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into an earthquake
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cake I have different flavored
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earthquake cakes out there on my recipe
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blog Katherine plates.com type in
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earthquake cake and they'll all come up
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for you all right you guys give me a
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thumbs up on this
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one I'll see y'all on the next episode
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bye
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