Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Recipe

Photo: Smitten Kitchen

There’s something deliciously childish about including peanut butter in a cake recipe. Deliciously childish yet a delightfully grown-up way to get a peanut butter fix.

This Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake recipe is an absolute star of a cake recipe.

As well as being utterly delicious, this cake is super-duper, amazingly rich.

Give everyone a thin slice to begin with – they can always go back for more if they can possibly fit it in.

A must for peanut butter fans.

The cake star behind this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is the incredibly talented Smitten Kitchen.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Recipe

 

Ingredients

For the Cake:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2½ cups sugar
• ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup neutral vegetable oil
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1½ cups water
• 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

For the Peanut Butter Frosting:

• 10 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 5 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
• ⅔ cup smooth peanut butter

For the Chocolate-Peanut Butter Glaze:

• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
• ½ cup half-and-half (milk/cream)

Instructions

1. For the full recipe go here: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake.

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