Such a fun treat today! This Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting is such a wonderful combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Rich frosting paired with a moist cake is a delight to the senses!
Peanut Butter Cake
There is nothing worse than a dry peanut butter cake and I have tested enough recipes to know that making a soft, moist peanut butter cake is not as easy as it sounds. This recipe is one that always works and always shines with amazing peanut butter flavor and the soft crumb that people demand.
Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Is there any better flavor combination than Chocolate and Peanut Butter? I think it has stood the test of time for a reason… it IS the best! Making this cake was a delight from beginning to end and the second this cake came out of the oven I knew I was in love. It was pure bliss.
For the top, I went to my go-to method for decorating a cake and that is the Ateco 846 tip.
I put 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/4 cup butter softened, 1 cup confectioners sugar, and 1-3 tablespoons of milk in the mixer and blended to a nice creamy consistency. (add more or less milk to reach your desired consistency)
Then simply just piped out little piles of peanut butter frosting bliss and covered in chocolate sprinkles.
Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
Cake
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅔ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup (113g) butter, softened to room temperature
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon good quality vanilla extract
- ¼ cup milk
Dark Chocolate Frosting
- 2¾ cups confectioners' sugar
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 6 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare an 8 inch round cake pan.
Cake
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Cream together the peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar until light and fluffy; about 2 minutes on medium speed.
- With mixer on slow, beat in eggs and vanilla. Scrape down the sides as needed.
- Slowly beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing until just combined.
- Do not overmix. Batter will be thick.
- Bake for 32-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle of a cake comes out clean. Allow cake to cool before frosting.
Frosting
- Sift together the powdered sugar and cocoa powder to assure there are no lumps. Set aside.
- With a stand mixer, beat the butter at medium speed until fluffy - about 2 minutes.
- With mixer on low, gradually add the sifted sugar/cocoa powder alternately with the heavy cream and vanilla.
- Add more powdered sugar if frosting is too dark. Add a pinch of salt if frosting is too sweet.
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Some folks mentioned in the comment that their cake was dry. This is a HUGE no-no in baking and I remade the recipe (in the middle of December in Minnesota) just to see if I could replicate their results. I didn’t find the cake to be dry per say, but it was not as moist as when I first tested this recipe in 2014. I recommend adding an additional egg. When I tested the recipe with 3 LARGE eggs instead of 2, it was just as moist and scrumptious as the first time. I will test one more time to make sure it’s the best before switching the recipe!
While not a major chocolate lover, I cannot resist the combined flavors of chocolate and peanut butter! This cake looks decadent and has that home-made look! YUM-EEE!
Cant wait to make this cake: choc & pb are my favorite
Looks amazingly awesome. ….like everything else! Can’t wait to try this!
This cake looks incredible!!
I love Sally’s Iced Raspberry Danish Braid-so good!
I just missed the contest! But I’m glad I have this recipe! Thanks! I will have to check out this cookbook!
This cake is gorgeous! You gotta love sweet Sally.
My sister is the main baker in my family. She always makes amazing and interesting cakes for our birthdays. Her birthday is on Sunday, so I decided to try making this cake so that she will (hopefully) have a beautiful, homemade cake for her special day too.
I did a practice run last night. Good thing I did, because mine came out pretty dry. It was in the oven longer than recommended because it wasn’t fully cooked the first few times I checked it, and then I think I overdid it.
My frosting is also a little too dry. I don’t own a standing mixer, so I hope the issue is that I need to add more milk, not that my hand mixer is ruining it.
I ate one piece of the practice cake, gave the rest away and am ready to try again on Saturday morning.
If I fail at the actual cake, at least I have decent skills with the frosting bag and 1M tip so it will look pretty and it will be sitting in an awesome metal cake carrying case from the Cake Boss line at Target.
Thanks for the blog post and recipe!
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more tempting cake, you two are a great team! I love Sally’s blog, and the recipe that sticks in y mind is her gorgeous lemon blueberry layer cake.
Wow, I missed this type of cake and i like it very much. Thanks for this recipes and i will to see this site to all recipes