Peanut Butter Confetti Cake
This Peanut Butter Confetti Cake is a family favourite recipe! Full of delicious peanut butter, butterscotch and marshmallow flavours!
Every Easter my family looks forward to this dessert! It’s so mouthwatering good. Once you have one bite you won’t be able to stop! Trust me on this one. Me, myself & I finished off half of it all by ourself.
A classic recipe.
This is one of those recipes that has been around in our family for as long as I can remember. Peanut Butter Confetti Cake would appear every year at Easter when either my Mom, Grandma or Aunties made it…it’s a classic. Funny thing though, when I was a kid I actually didn’t love it like I do now. Now, I cannot get enough of it, which is why I don’t make it very often. In fact I only make it at Easter time. Some people make it for Christmas, but I like it for Easter because the pastel colours seem to be perfect for this time of year.
Peanut Butter Confetti Cake
Recipe Tips:
- Marshmallows: I always use the mini fruit flavoured marshmallows, but feel free to use regular mini marshmallows.
- Peanut Butter: Use creamy peanut butter for this recipe. Do not use natural peanut butter.
- Let it cool. Let the butterscotch chip, butter and peanut butter mixture cool slightly before adding the marshmallows. You don’t want the marshmallows to melt.
- Do NOT boil. The butterscotch chip, butter and peanut butter mixture just needs to be melted together…you don’t need to boil it. If the mixture boils, it will become hard.
- Makes a big batch. This recipe makes a pretty large batch. I have learned over the years to actually cut the recipe in half when I’m serving just our family of 5. But if I’m getting together with a larger group of family, I will make a large batch…and you can bet by the end of Easter weekend it’s gone. Gone with the wind.
Peanut Butter Confetti Cake
This Peanut Butter Confetti Cake is a family favourite recipe! Full of delicious peanut butter, butterscotch and marshmallow flavours!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cooling Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 36 squares 1x
- Category: Dessert
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 (300 gram) packages of butterscotch chips
- 1 (400 gram) package of mini coloured marshmallows
Instructions
- In a saucepan over low to medium heat, melt the butter, butterscotch chips and peanut butter together, stirring constantly. Do not let the mixture boil, all you want to do is melt everything.
- Let the mix cool for a few minutes before you add the marshmallows, so you don’t melt them.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Then transfer to an 8 x 8 ” square dish.
- Refrigerate, and serve when cooled completely.
- This square is best kept in the fridge between snacking!
Notes
You could easily cut this recipe in half. I do this for our family of 5, and there is plenty!
Keywords: confetti cake, peanut butter confetti cake, peanut butter confetti squares
Enjoy!
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More Delicious Easter Desserts!
- Carrot Cake Sheet Cake
- Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
- 2 Ingredient Easter Egg Bark
- Butter Tart Squares
- Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Drizzle
Have a delicious day!
This is an old post that I updated with new pictures and republished!
I’m not a butterscotch fan. Do you think that would work with chocolate chips? I’m thinking of a peanut butter cup.
I grew up on this version of using 1/2 butterscotch chips and 1/2 chocolate chips. I still use that recipe and everyone I know like my 1/2 and 1/2 version better.
Oh my goodness that looks so good!
Oh My! This looks amazing! Cant wait to try this, thanks so much for sharing
Yum!!
Yum … I remember eating that when I was a kid. I’ll have to make some for my kiddos.
WOW!!!! This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
So cute! I know my 7yo would love to help me make this. BTW – your photography is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
My mom used to make this back in the 70s and it was always a big hit at parties. Thanks for reminding me about it.
oh wow! i wish my kids could eat peanuts!!!
How fun are these! Great recipe.
Wow these look SO incredibly yummy :o)
Your pictures are gorgeous…and are you kidding me peanut butter and marshmallow…out of this world!
I will have to try this with my toddler! She loves to help in the kitchen.
Looks really yummy! Thanks for the recipe!
Mmmmm. Great photos – looks yummy.
oh my goodness… this could be dangerous!
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heather
Mmmm….looks positively addictive. I’m sharing a link with my readers on my FB Fan page!
New follower,
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NO, no, no, no!! I’m on a diet! You must not post this sort of thing again!! They look so yummy!
LOVE THIS!!! Now where to find butterscotch chips in Australia!!!
This looks AWESOME! I’m bookmarking it, because I really want to make it at Easter.
Oh my, looks incredible!!!! Great shots too.
Have a blessed day!
MMM My great Aunt used to make these and they were so yummy. Your post brought back some tasty memories.
Very Yummy Looking!
Yum-o! Such inviting photos.
Hi Jo-anna. These look incredible!
My husband’s favorite food is peanut butter, and I love finding {easy} recipes to make for him. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Hmm.. Those look so yummy!!
Oh that is gorgeous and my marshmallow loving daughter will enjoy making those, thank you.
I make these for Christmas and never thought of making them for Easter. It makes sense with those colours though. I love them so much!! Great photos 🙂
Thank you so much Charlene!
Yum … I remember eating that when I was a kid. I’ll have to make some for my kiddos.
oh wow! i wish my kids could eat peanuts!!!
Very Yummy Looking!
★★★★★
Thank you!
The mixture crystallized and I couldn’t mix the marshmallows in. Other recipes have the butterscotch chips added to the peanut butter and butter after removing from heat. This recipe is also too big for 8×8 pan. It would fit into an 9×11 better.
I have never ever had that happen, and I’ve made it dozens of times. And it fits in an 8×8 pan just fine.