What did you make... Jessica Tandy cake?

My husband couldn't remember the name of this cake and kept calling it Jessica Tandy cake.

Saturday was my sister-in-law's birthday party, her actual birthday is today. I offered to make her cake and having found out she was having a margarita theme (pizzas and drinks) I decided I had to do something by making her a cake. I played 20 questions to make sure she likes the cake and found out she wanted peanut butter tandy cake. My first thought was WTF?! So I googled it. I found the Betty Crocker recipe and figured I couldn't go wrong with Betty, she's been doing this a lot longer than I have.

I started out by baking the yellow cake and splitting them into two 9x9 pans. One with a little more batter than the other. 

To carry out the margarita theme I had to be a bit creative and it turned out pretty darn awesome. I started with Bakerella's basic cake pop recipe to get me going. I wanted to maintain the peanut butter tandy cake flavor so I compromised on the look of the margarita theme. Bakerella's cake pops usually use a light icing but I needed peanut butter flavor instead. I crumbled the cake and poked around the internet and found an easy way to make peanut butter icing on Epicurious. The I mixed some frosting in with the crumbled cake until it was dough-like and could be formed into shapes.

Peanut Butter Frosting

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter (do not use old-fashioned or freshly ground)
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 teaspoons (about) whipping cream (optional)

Put powdered sugar and next 3 ingredients in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat until mixture is smooth, adding whipping cream by teaspoonfuls if frosting is too thick to spread.

After creating the mixture I began to shape the pops. I had to make a cookie cutter out of a small plastic container that I cut the bottom of (I need to get me some cookie/shape cutters). Then use the candy melt that will coat the outside as a glue on the pop sticks before pushing them into the formed dough.

Now pop those babies in the freezer to set the candy melt glue and harden the cake mixture before dipping. Melt the rest of the candy melts in the microwave and then it's time to dip!

After the candy melt dipping I spun the margarita glass in light blue and purple sugar sprinkles to create the margarita salt. The "fruit" was made of Jolly Rancher jelly beans that I had lying around. I cut a little wedge out of each so they'd sit on the rim of the glass.

And voila the finished cake...