Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Buttercream Frosting

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup chunky peanut butter
3 tablespoons milk, or as needed
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3/4 cup chopped chocolate chips

Cream the butter and peanut butter together. Add the sugar, mix to combine. Add the milk, a tablespoon at a time and mix till smooth and spreadable.

adapted from here

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Ok, here is how good this frosting is. See this? See the cake? The chocolate cake? Practically irrelevant. I wound up eating about a quarter cup of the frosting with a spoon while I was waiting for the cake to cool enough to be frosted. Then when I did frost it and eat some I barely even noticed it. It probably didn't help that it was a mix cake, but I like mix cakes. Sure, they aren't as good as a good homemade one, but it will satisfy a cake craving and it's easy. But this frosting. This was very good. It's full of chunks from the peanuts and chocolate, so it will never be smooth and pretty. But it tastes like some kind of wonderful, delicious... thing. Words fail me, apparently. Look, if you like peanut butter, butter and chocolate you will like this frosting. It's wicked good. Here's how you make it.


Chop up some chocolate chips. No need to worry too much about small pieces, big chunks of chocolate are always good. And I've found that nothing is going to make a chunky frosting spread well, so you might as well get good flavor. Plus if you are using an electric mixer it will break them down a bit more. I didn't feel like breaking out my electric, which probably wouldn't have been able to handle frosting anyway. It's really weak. But I didn't use the whisk pictured here either. I'm not sure why I thought I would. I also didn't feel like following the instructions, I just dumped in everything except the milk and chips into a bowl and mixed. Then added some milk to thin it out. Then chocolate chips and more mixing. When it was as smooth as I wanted, I called it done. Then, as you saw, I put it on cake and ate more. It would also be good between two peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies or chocolate oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Or just on a spoon. I think that was my favorite.