Sweetheart Trifle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (18 1/4 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
10 ounces peanut butter chips
4 1/4 cups cold milk, divided
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 (6 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip, thawed
4 -6 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, crumbled

Preparation

Prepare cake mix according to directions, let cool completely.
In a heavy saucepan, combine chips, 1/4 c milk and the whipping cream.
Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted.
Remove from heat; stir in vanilla and cool to room temp.
(If you don't melt the chips on high heat, it will only take a 1/2 hour to cool) Place the remaining milk in a mixing bowl; beat in the pudding mixes on low speed for 2 minutes.
To assemble, crumble half the cake into a 4 qt trifle bowl or large bowl.
Layer with 1/2 the peanut butter sauce, pudding, whipped topping and then repeat layers.
At the end, add the crumbled peanut butter cups.
Cool for 3 hours.