Chocolate Peanut Volcano Cake

I'm in here today with Angie Harmon, this beautiful young woman that so loves cooking

and I'm going to make for you today our volcano cake. And I'm going to start with a white cake mix because I wanted lots of contrast

When I use a cake mix, y'all, I always switch from water to milk

because that milk's going to make it richer. So that's what I'm going to be doing to this

So this is milk instead of water. Milk instead of water. If you'll do that, like I said, it just makes it richer

Okay. All right. So if you will mix two cups of confectionate sugar in my cream cheese

a stick of butter, and then we're just going to eyeball the peanut butter

Okay, but I have to tell you something. Yes, tell me. Clearly

I'm horrible at baking. Horrible. Can I do it like that, or do I need to flatten it? Yes, no

No, because we don't care if you put too much. And you want two of these

Yes. Oh, it's going to be a mess. Okay. This cake calls for three eggs, but I always like to add an extra

There's two. And I'm going to do three-fourths a cup of olive

What's that? That's a stick of butter. I just needed to hear you say it

Now that's a girl's best friend. Wait, what's that? This is all

Thank you so much. I can leave now. I can just leave

I read on the website one day, this was years ago. Who is that old gray-headed lady with that fake southern accent

There is nothing fake about that. Do you think I would fake that

If I was going to fake something, it'd be French. It's about as genuine and as wonderful as it gets

We, we, masseur. What do you want me to do with this? Now, you can start with a heaping spoonful of that peanut butter, girl

We're going to have more peanut butter. with our little chocolate and peanut butter changes Oh so good All right so you just mix the cake mix about two minutes All right

Okay, now wait a minute. All right. Wait, this could... So I'm gonna give you that. Okay, but wait

Okay. Wait, why? Oh, okay. You're not scared of electricity, are you? No, but this thing I am..

Oh, this is... If it goes everywhere, don't get mad. Don't get mad. Oh, God. How could I get mad with you

Okay. So we're going to bake this in a 13 by 9 by 2, Angie

Okay. And I'm going to spray it good. Look, I'm kind of getting this

Look at you go, girl. I'm kind of excited about this. Turn that thing up. Oh, really

Okay. Oh. I can tell you don't bake much. I don't. You know why

I fear the baking, because it's an exact science. It really is

If you mess up one small thing, it's done. Well, when you're starting with a cake mix, you are lowering your chances of messing up

All right. So I just highly recommend that. Angie, I just lined the whole bottom of our pan with the peanuts

All right, now I'm going to stick my finger in that. Okay. I would die if I hurt you

I would die. I would just die. All right, now I'm going to take your stuff

Okay, and I keep mixing. Yes, you just keep them mixing. Okay. And now you taste that when you think it's rich enough with the peanut butter

Like you want it to taste like peanut butter? Mmm. Mmm. All right

You know, it doesn't have to be real strong with peanut butter. I think this is kind of perfect

Now, I'm taking these little chocolate peanut butter things. Oops, they fell in our cake, Angie

Didn't they? One accidentally fell in my mouth. Oh, my God, what? Yum

I know. I'm going to chop up a cup full to add to our mix

And what do you think we added? Like a half a cup of peanut butter? What I'm thinking

Yes. What do you want me to do with that? Why don you take it off and put it in the sink Just the okay Wait wait wait Here I going to learn how to do this from you All right look at that Oh one for you Okay One for me

Wait, do I have to rinse it off? Okay, I'm done. Just lick it off. So Angie, let's just mix in the peanut butter

and the chocolate pieces, and then we can just pour the whole mixture over our nuts

Oh, look at that. Yes! All right, now we're just gonna gently put that over our nuts

All right, now, so this is what we're going to do next. We're going to take our cream cheese and our butter, and we're going to just do it just like that

So when we cut into this cake, we're going to cut into clumps

Everybody's going to have a chunk of cream cheese. Tell me about your show

Rosalie and I have wonderful people on my crew and on my cast, and everybody loves to laugh and have a good time

So let me ask you this, Angie. How do you live in Charlotte and shoot in L.A.

Who tends to your children? My husband, Jason. He is a wonderful, wonderful father

You're a lucky chick. Yes, I am. All right, we're going to put this in the oven, y'all, at 350

We're probably going to bake it somewhere between 35 and 45 minutes until it looks like we like it. Okay

And then at the end of our meal, we're going to put a hot chocolate glaze over this and let it just slither into those craters

Oh, yum. Uh-huh. Yum. Yes. Can I get that for you? Yes, darling

We'll be back in a minute. Oh, my goodness. It's all about chocolate, Angie

We're bringing it home, honey. Okay. What's that? It's cocoa. I'm being a smart, Ellie

I just love hearing you say it. I'm going to put about a half a stick of butter

and then I'm going to put a fourth of a cup of cocoa

I don want this too too too too chocolatey And look at our volcano cake See why it called a volcano Because it looks like a volcano erupted in there

All right. So we're going to melt that butter with our cocoa

Okay. We are making a chocolate glaze for that wonderful volcano cake

And I have to say that chili in that salad was so delicious. They were so good

Did you really like it? Yeah, I loved it. All right. So I just need to add a little bit of milk

All right. So what I need for you to do now. Yes, ma'am. Is add me a couple of cups of confectionate sugar

Okay. While I'm stirring to get this cocoa dissolved in there. Okay

You know what? I like that other stick of butter. He looks so lonely laying there

We just put him right on in there. Dump away, girl. Dump. Yum

That's all right. There we go. That's all right. Okay. That looks good

I'm just going to feed it. All right. Smooth as your mother-in-law's love, honey

Look at that. Ooh. Yes. So I'm going to add a teaspoon of vanilla

Look, yum. Can you drizzle faster? Can you? Oh, look at that

Right now, we're going to take it from this pan to that plate to our pie hole

Look, look, look. Okay. Angie, when are you going to come back and bring those girls

Tomorrow. Yay. I want to see them. They are going to be so jealous of all this

Oh, no. I'm sending them some of this home. I might have to take it. So now you tell me what you honestly think

Oh, my God. I know