Chocolate Peanut Butter Ooey Gooey Cake takes my Chocolate Ooey Gooey Cake to a new level–a peanut butter level! With a layer of peanut butter in the cake as well as a chocolate peanut butter ganache, this cake will be your new favorite variety of my Ooey Gooey Cakes!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ooey Gooey Cake
I could not have been more excited to make this cake. It combines two of my favorite things… chocolate cake and chocolate peanut butter ganache. I use 4 ingredients in my chocolate peanut butter ganache to make sure it is loaded with peanut butter flavor, and it does not disappoint!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ooey Gooey Cake Recipe
There are two important parts to this recipe–the chocolate peanut butter cake and the ganache.
How to Make Ooey Gooey Cake
In my other ooey-gooey cake recipes, I used a 9×13-inch pan, but in this case, I preferred the 9×9-inch baking dish. HOWEVER, readers have let me know that it was a bit small and they preferred the 9×13.
Traditionally, ooey gooey cakes were a mistake made by John Hoffman because he used the wrong proportions of two important ingredients–flour and sugar. Using too little flour caused the cake to be flat, which is how they now turn out (on purpose). My point is that in using a 9×9-inch baking dish the cake does come out a little less flat than my other ooey gooey cakes, which is totally okay with me! Once you have the cake made, let it cool while you make the ganache. Yes, more peanut butter!
Ooey Gooey Desserts
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ooey Gooey Cake
Ingredients
CHOCOLATE CAKE
- 2 sticks (226 g) butter, melted
- 1 package (15.25 ounce) German chocolate cake mix
- 3 large eggs, Divided -one egg for the bottom cake layer and two eggs for filling layer
- 1 package (8-ounce) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
TOPPING
- ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup peanut butter chips
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
CHOCOLATE CAKE
- Heat oven to 350°F and prepare a 9×9-inch baking dish or thick cake OR a 9×13 for thinner cake.
- Combine the cake mix, 1 egg (you will use the other two eggs elsewhere), and 1 stick melted butter (1/2 cup or 113g), and mix well.
- Pat the mixture into prepared pan and set aside.
- In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment on medium speed (or using a hand-held mixer), beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the remaining 2 eggs and the peanut butter.
- Lower the speed of the mixer and add the confectioners' sugar. Slowly add the remaining 1 stick (1/2 cup) of melted butter. Add vanilla and continue to beat the mixture until smooth.
- Pour filling over cake batter in the pan. Bake for 50 minutes. Be careful not to overcook the cake; the center should still be a little gooey when finished baking. Let cake partially cool on a wire rack while you prepare the ganache.
TOPPING
- Place the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and peanut butter in a bowl and set aside.
- Heat the cream on the stove (or in a microwave) and simmer on medium-low for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour the hot cream on top of the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and peanut butter.
- Stir gently to combine and keep stirring until all morsels are melted.
- Pour the ganache over the baked chocolate cake and let sit at room temperature for about an hour before cutting and serving.
- Refrigerate leftovers.
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I made this yesterday. I only baked mine for 40 minutes and am glad I pulled it out at that point. Any more and it would’ve been way overdone. This tasted great, but had a much firmer texture than I had expected. Our group of 7 almost polished it off!
This dessert looks amazing! Do you think that I could make this in a springform pan? I would like to have a prettier presentation.
The bottom layer came out good until I refrigerated it, now it’s hard
I totally messed up! I needed this the next day so baked it one night and put in the fridge and then read the comments you are supposed to eat it out of the oven. Lol….so I set it out all day long hoping it would soften up. It wasn’t at all what was described but it was so good. Kind of like a peanut butter Twix bar. Cookie like crust and caramel peanut butter type middle. I’ll try it the right way later. Glad it didn’t get messed up!
Make this today! It came out perfect and was soooo good! 🤤 I didn’t and wouldn’t change anything!
Do you make cake mix from box instructions and add another egg or just cake mix with your instructions
I haven’t made this recipe yet, but I thought you should know that someone stole your recipe – with your logo on it – and is selling it on Etsy! I thought you might want to know that someone else is trying to profit off of your amazing work!
Thanks so much for letting me know. I have reported to Etsy and they side with the thief, refusing to honor my legal copyright. I can sue the violator, of course, which will cost me thousands that I will never recover. 🙁