what's cooking wednesday - peanut butter frosting

Well I've made this icing a couple of times now and it's been a big hit when paired with chocolate cake. I had to supply the cake for a birthday dinner on Sunday and knowing the guest of honour was a big chocolate/peanut butter fan made it a very easy decision. I apologize, I didn't manage to get a picture before it disappeared.

Peanut Butter Frosting

4 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup milk

Mix icing sugar and peanut butter together on low speed. Add in vanilla and 1 tbsp of the milk. Gradually beat in the remaining milk until the frosting is smooth and spreadable.

Recipe: I like this icing, in theory. In reality I had a hard time getting the ratios just right. It went very quickly from too thin to too thick. I struggled with it both times. I'm not sure if it 's me -- being somewhat of an icing novice -- or it's just the recipe. It did taste delicious though. And judging by how quickly it went everyone else did too.

*Here's hoping that the Mr. Linky is back to working properly. Fingers crossed.




What is What's Cooking Wednesday and how can I play?

What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

So for example I would write Shan (Speedy Chicken Stir Fry) in the name section. For the URL section I would post this: http://shanrev.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-cooking-wednesday-speedy-chicken.html

I'll let you in on a little secret, my WCW recipes are almost never made on a Wednesday. So feel free to cook and photograph whenever you have time and join us posting on Wednesday