Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

Learn how to build Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake from scratch alongside this slow to follow step-by-step tutorial alongside lots of photos together with video. It’s a soft together with moist chocolate cake filled alongside creamy peanut butter frosting together with topped alongside smoothen chocolate ganache. The perfect cake for every occasion.

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What y'all volition learn:

How to…

• make Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake from scratch


• store the cake together with how long does it last


• substitute unmarried ingredients


• freeze the whole cake, unmarried slices, or simply the cake layers

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HOW TO MAKE THE BEST PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CAKE FROM SCRATCH

The recipe calls for making

1. chocolate cake,


2. peanut butter frosting,


3. chocolate ganache,

and that all from scratch.

So let’s commencement alongside the cake.

HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE CAKE

STEP 1: COMBINE DRY INGREDIENTS

Combine all dry out ingredients inwards a medium bowl. These are flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, salt, together with espresso powder. Although the espresso pulverisation is optional, I highly recommend it. It’s simply 1 tsp, together with it enhances the flavour of the chocolate. You won’t sense of savor the coffee. But if y'all don’t similar it, move out it out. There is no exchange required.

STEP 2: MIX WET INGREDIENTS

In a large bowl, using a handheld or stand upwardly mixer fitted alongside a whisk or paddle attachment, combine all wet ingredients on medium-low speed. These are oil, eggs, buttermilk, together with vanilla. Stir simply until combined.

STEP 3: ADD DRY INGREDIENTS TO WET INGREDIENTS

Add dry out ingredients together with mix on medium-low speed simply until combined. The batter volition live really thick as y'all tin come across inwards the motion-picture exhibit below.

STEP 4: ADD HOT WATER

Slowly mix inwards hot H2O together with stir on depression speed simply until combined. The H2O should live hot boiling. Please accept attention that y'all don’t sack yourself. The chocolate cake batter volition live really sparse inwards the end. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl i fourth dimension earlier y'all halt mixing.

STEP 5: FILL CHOCOLATE CAKE BATTER INTO BAKING PANS AND BAKE

Line the bottom together with the sides of two 8″ (20cm) baking pans alongside parchment paper. Therefore cutting out circles for the bottoms together with stripes for the sides. Spray a chip of baking spray underneath the stripes that it sticks to the sides of the pan. I institute out that lining the sides alongside parchment makes it super slow to take away the cake from the pan without adding whatever additional fatty or wet to the cake because of the baking spray.

Fill the cake batter into the ii baking pans equally. Use a kitchen scale for the most accurate results. If y'all mensurate the batter, y'all tin live certain that your cake layers volition live equal inwards size together with texture.

Bake at 350°F / 175°C for 20-25 minutes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 toothpick centered inwards the middle should come upwardly out build clean alongside a few cake crumbs on it. See motion-picture exhibit below. I bake mine for exact 22 minutes.

Once the cake is cooled down, cutting a sparse layer off the tops of your cakes to create a apartment surface. Then cutting each cake layer inwards one-half horizontally.

TIP FOR PERFECTLY BAKED CHOCOLATE CAKE

It’s crucial to receive got the right oven temperature for perfectly baked chocolate cake layers. Therefore I can’t recommend plenty to invest inwards an oven thermometer.

I did a test. I removed my oven thermometer together with completely relied on my oven dial. Then I turned the oven to 350°F together with baked the cake 22 minutes.

As y'all tin come across inwards the motion-picture exhibit below it was a consummate fail. Totally overbaked. The tops cracked together with split from the cake, together with I got lots of holes throughout the cake. Why did this hap y'all ask? Because my oven temperature is non accurate. 350°F on my oven dial is 375°C for real. I know, crazy, right?

Here the lawsuit alongside an oven thermometer:

A success! Even tops, no huge holes. Just perfect. So delight build certain to utilisation an oven thermometer to avoid such problems.

TIPS TO GET SUPER SOFT AND MOIST TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

• Do non overmix the batter. Just stir until combined at every step.


• Measure dry out ingredients correctly. Spoon the flour together with also the cocoa into the criterion loving cup together with marking alongside the dorsum of a knife. For example, a packed loving cup of flour equals 1.5x times the required amount of flour.


• Measure together with split the batter into the ii pans as that they are baked through at the same time.


• Don’t overbake the cake. Remove when a toothpick inwards the middle comes out clean.

After baking, allow the cake layers cool downward for 15-20 minutes. Then take away from the pans together with transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool completely. Now it’s fourth dimension to build the peanut butter frosting.

HOW TO MAKE PEANUT BUTTER FROSTING

For the peanut butter frosting, y'all demand unsalted butter, cream cheese, creamy peanut butter, powdered sugar, together with vanilla.

STEP 1: MIX BUTTER

Mix butter alongside a handheld or stand upwardly mixer fitted alongside a whisk attachment on medium speed until really creamy. About 1-2 minutes. The butter should live room temperature because mutual frigidity butter doesn’t mix that well, together with y'all demand to mix significant longer to arrive creamy.

STEP 2: ADD CREAM CHEESE

Add the cream cheese to the butter together with mix until completely combined. This recipe industrial plant alongside brick-style cream cheese (available inwards the US) as good alongside spreadable cream cheese (available inwards the EU). Brick-style cream cheese needs to live room temperature that it incorporates good alongside the butter. Spreadable i tin live used take out of the refrigerator because it has already a soft texture together with incorporates easily alongside the butter.

The cream cheese lightens the peanut butter frosting inwards taste. For me, peanut butter buttercream frosting is also fatty together with also buttery inwards taste. The cream cheese makes the frosting creamier together with lighter inwards taste. In my opinion, the peanut butter sense of savor is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than intense when y'all add together cream cheese to the frosting.

STEP 3: ADD PEANUT BUTTER

Stir inwards peanut butter until combined. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl in-between. The best peanut butter for this frosting is creamy peanut butter from a build similar Skippy.

STEP 4: ADD POWDERED SUGAR AND VANILLA

Sift inwards powdered carbohydrate together with add together vanilla together with mix until creamy together with combined. You tin come across inwards the motion-picture exhibit below that the texture is creamy but theatre plenty to spread it all over the cake.

If your frosting is also firm, y'all tin add together 1-2 tbsp of milk or heavy cream to arrive creamier. If it is also soft, add together to a greater extent than powdered sugar, upwardly to 1/2 cup. In this case, y'all may demand to add together a pinch of tabular array salt to cutting downward the sweetness.

Then house i cake layer on a cake stand, turner, or serving plate. Spread 1/4 of the frosting over the cake. Repeat ii to a greater extent than times.

Place concluding cake layer on laissez passer on together with lightly frost the exterior together with the sides of the cake alongside the remaining frosting. The frosting is plenty to build a naked cake. It’s the perfect amount of frosting for the cake that the frosting is non also overpowering.

Chill the cake for at to the lowest degree four hours earlier y'all laissez passer on it alongside ganache together with decorate it.

HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE GANACHE

The chocolate ganache requires simply three ingredients. These are black chocolate, heavy cream, together with corn syrup. And the adept tidings is that it is slow to make

1. Finely chop high-quality black chocolate bars. I prefer using brands similar Ghirardelli, Lindt, or Hershey’s. The sense of savor of the chocolate has a huge touching on the ganache. I don’t recommend chocolate chips because they don’t melt together with contain good alongside the other ingredients. Transfer to a medium-sized bowl.


2. Place heavy cream together with corn syrup inwards a pocket-size bowl together with microwave until really hot together with bubbling.


3. Pour hot cream over the chocolate together with allow correspond 2 minutes.


4. Stir until smoothen together with combined.

This is how it looks when y'all start stirring:

This is how the chocolate ganache looks similar inwards the end:

Let the ganache correspond most 5-10 minutes. Test the consistency of the glaze downward the side of the bowl. It should drip. The longer it stands, the thicker it gets. If it is also firm, re-warm it a few seconds inwards the microwave. Once it reached the desired consistency, it’s ready to spoon on laissez passer on of the cake.

Remove cake from the refrigerator together with spoon the glaze trivial past times trivial around the sides together with allow it drip off the sides. Do this alongside a pocket-size spoon together with practise i drip at the time. Then spoon or pour the remainder of the glaze on laissez passer on of the cake (maybe y'all don’t demand all) together with marking alongside an offset spatula. Place cake inwards the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes that the glaze gets theatre if needed.

In my opinion, cake slices are best eaten at room temperature. Therefore house it on the kitchen counter 15-30 minutes earlier serving.

HOW TO STORE PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CAKE AND HOW LONG DOES information technology LAST

I recommend storing the peanut butter inwards the fridge. If you shop it inwards the fridge, it lasts upwardly to four days. If stored at room temperature, upwardly to three days. But as I said, I highly recommend to shop it inwards the fridge. If it is also warm together with humid inwards your climate zone, the frosting could acquire also soft together with bad.

SUBSTITUTIONS

The next substitutions are possible:

DUTCH-PROCESSED COCOA POWDER

This chocolate cake calls for dutch-processed cocoa pulverisation together with baking powder. If y'all wishing to substitute alongside natural unsweetened cocoa powder, then substitute the dutch-processed cocoa pulverisation 1:1. Instead of 1 tbsp of baking powder, utilisation 1+1/2 tsp baking pulverisation together with 1+1/2 tsp of baking soda. Natural cocoa pulverisation needs baking soda to react, together with dutch-processed cocoa pulverisation needs baking powder.

ESPRESSO POWDER

I added 1 tsp of espresso pulverisation to the cake batter to heighten the chocolate flavor. No worries. You won’t sense of savor the coffee. But if y'all actually don’t wishing to add together the espresso powder, hence simply move out it out.

GLUTEN-FREE

For gluten-free chocolate cake, I recommend using Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1:1.

HOW TO FREEZE CHOCOLATE CAKE

The whole cake

After chilling for four hours, house the Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake without the ganache inwards the freezer until it is firm, for most 2 hours. Remove the cake from the freezer together with tightly wind inwards plastic foil twice. Make certain that everything is covered. Then wind ii layers of tin foil around until completely covered. It freezes good upwardly to 2 months.

Unwrap the cake together with thaw inwards the refrigerator overnight. Then build the chocolate ganache together with decorate your cake. Eat inside 2 days.

Single slices

Place the unmarried slices inwards the freezer for most 1 hour. Single slices are possible to freeze alongside the ganache. Then take away from the freezer together with tightly wind inwards plastic foil twice, until fully covered. Place inwards a freezer pocketbook together with take away as much air as possible. It freezes good upwardly to 2 months.

For thawing, reveal the cake together with house on the kitchen counter for 1-2 hours. Eat inside 1 day.

Just the cake layers

After baking the chocolate cake layers, take away the newspaper together with allow cool completely. Then tightly wind each cake layer inwards plastic foil twice. Place inwards freezer bags together with take away as much air as possible. Freeze upwardly to 1 month.

For thawing, reveal the cake layers together with allow sit down on the counter for most 1-2 hours. Once it is room temperature, build the frosting together with the ganache together with get together the cake as described.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Recipe

Prep Time

1 hr

Cook Time

22 mins

Chill Time

4 hrs

Total Time

1 hr 22 mins

 

Learn how to build Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake from scratch alongside this slow to follow step-by-step tutorial alongside lots of photos together with video. It's a soft together with moist chocolate cake filled alongside creamy peanut butter frosting together with topped alongside smoothen chocolate ganache. The perfect cake for every occasion.

Course:

Dessert

Cuisine:

American

Keyword:

How to build Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake, Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Recipe

Servings: 16 servings

Calories: 534 kcal

Author: Sabine Venier

Ingredients

chocolate cake

• 
  2
  cups
  all-purpose flour, spooned together with leveled
  (240g)
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  dutch-processed cocoa powder, spooned together with leveled
  (65g)
  


• 
  1+1/2
  cups
  granulated sugar
  (300g)
  


• 
  1
  tbsp
  baking powder
  


• 
  1
  tsp
  salt
  


• 
  1
  tsp
  espresso pulverisation (optional)
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  mild flavored vegetable oil
  (120ml)
  


• 
  2
  large
  eggs
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  buttermilk
  (120ml)
  


• 
  1
  vanilla bean* (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
  


• 
  1
  cup
  boiling hot water
  (240ml)
  

peanut butter frosting

• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter, room temperature
  (113g)
  


• 
  1
  cup
  cream cheese, softened
  (226g)
  


• 
  1
  cup
  creamy peanut butter
  (250g)
  


• 
  1+1/4
  cups
  powdered sugar, sifted
  (150g)
  


• 
  1
  vanilla bean* (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
  

chocolate ganache

• 
  1
  cup
  dark chocolate, finely chopped
  (6.1oz / 175g)
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  heavy cream
  (120ml)
  


• 
  2
  tbsp
  light corn syrup
  (30ml)
  

Instructions

chocolate cake

1. 
   

   Preheat oven to 350°F / 175°C. Line the bottom together with the sides of ii 8" (20cm) baking pans alongside parchment paper. Set aside.

   
   


2. 
   

   In a medium bowl combine flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, salt, together with espresso pulverisation together with stir to combine. Set aside.

   
   


3. 
   

   In a large mixing bowl alongside a stand upwardly or handheld mixer fitted alongside a whisk or paddle attachment, trounce oil, eggs, buttermilk, together with vanilla* simply until combined. 

   
   


4. 
   

   Stir inwards dry out ingredients to combine. The batter volition live really thick.

   
   


5. 
   

   Slowly mix inwards hot H2O until combined. The batter volition live really thin. 

   
   


6. 
   

   Divide batter into the ii prepared baking pans equally. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inwards the middle comes out clean. Don't overbake. I baked mine for 22 minutes. Let cool inwards the pan for most 15-20 minutes. Then take away from pan together with transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool to room temperature.

   
   

peanut butter frosting

1. 
   

   In a large mixing bowl alongside a stand upwardly or handheld mixer fitted alongside a whisk or paddle attachment, trounce butter until creamy, most 1-2 minutes. 

   
   


2. 
   

   Add cream cheese together with stir until creamy together with combined.

   
   


3. 
   

   Add peanut butter together with mix until completely combined. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl.

   
   


4. 
   

   Sift inwards powdered carbohydrate together with add together vanilla* together with mix until combined together with carbohydrate is dissolved. 

   
   

assemble the cake

1. 
   

   Cut a sparse layer off the tops of your cakes to create a apartment surface. Then cutting each cake inwards one-half horizontally. Place i cake layer on a cake stand, turner or serving plate. Spread 1/4 of the frosting over the cake. Repeat ii to a greater extent than times.

   
   


2. 
   

   Place concluding cake layer on laissez passer on together with lightly frost the exterior together with the sides of the cake alongside the remaining frosting. Chill at to the lowest degree four hours inwards the refrigerator or overnight.

   
   

chocolate ganache

1. 
   

   Place chopped chocolate inwards a large heatproof bowl. 

   
   


2. 
   

   Place heavy cream together with corn syrup inwards some other heatproof bowl together with microwave until really hot together with bubbling for most 1-2 minutes. 

   
   


3. 
   

   Pour over chocolate together with allow stand upwardly 1-2 minutes. 

   
   


4. 
   

   Whisk until smooth, together with the chocolate is completely melted. Let correspond most 5-10 minutes. Test the consistency of the glaze downward the side of the bowl. It should drip. The longer it stands, the thicker it gets. If it is also firm, re-warm it a few seconds inwards the microwave. Once it reached the desired consistency, it's ready to spoon on laissez passer on of the cake.

   
   

finish your cake

1. 
   

   Remove cake from the refrigerator together with spoon the glaze trivial past times trivial around the sides together with allow it drip off the sides. Do this alongside a pocket-size spoon together with practise i drip at the time. Then spoon or pour the remainder of the glaze on laissez passer on of the cake (maybe y'all don't demand all) together with marking alongside an offset spatula. Place cake inwards the refrigerator for 10 minutes that the glaze gets theatre (if needed). 

   
   


2. 
   

   Store leftovers inwards an airtight container inwards the refrigerator upwardly to four days.

   
   

Recipe Video

Notes

*First, cutting off the take halt of the vanilla bean. Then house the tip of your knife below the curled halt together with cutting the vanilla edible bean through the middle of the edible bean lengthwise alongside a sudden knife. Although y'all don't demand to cutting it all the agency through, it's ok when y'all practise so. Then opened upwardly the vanilla edible bean together with scrape out the flavorful seeds alongside the dorsum of your knife. Just utilisation the seeds.

 

RECOMMENDATIONS:

 

• Read the weblog post service for additional information on how to build Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake, how to shop together with freeze the cake, substitutions, etc. 


• Watch step-by-step photos to come across the required consistency at every step.


• Watch the 102 seconds video to come across the whole procedure of making Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake.

Nutrition Facts

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Recipe

Amount Per Serving

Calories 534

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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