This is a heavy, moist bundt cake. (Apologies to those who cringe at the word moist.) During this time of isolation, simple pleasures are important – and this cake is simple to make and a pleasure to eat.
Preheat your oven to 325, then grease and flour your fancy-schmancy bundt pan. Treat yourself to a fancy pan – it makes any cake look as good as it will taste.
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup milk
Cream the butters and sugars together and add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each one. Add vanilla. Mix the dry ingredients together and add a bit at a time interspersed with the milk, beat till smooth. Scoop into your fancy pan and bake for 60-75 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean. Cool 5-10 minutes, then flip over onto serving plate, remove pan, and cool completely.
Decorate with peanut butter frosting. Mix ¼ cup softened butter, 2-3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, 2 cups confectioners’ sugar, and 1-3 tablespoons milk and beat till it looks right to you. If you have a pastry bag, use it. I just plopped the icing around the cake off of a tablespoon and sprinkled om some colored décor sugar.
Some people (who I won’t name-check) add a big dollop of peanut butter to a slice of this peanut butter cake with peanut butter icing. I suggest serving it with a cup of espresso.
Holy shit, that sounds incredible. Too bad I can’t make it. Don’t have a bundt pan, and Mrs. Butcher can’t eat it–and therefore would skin me alive if I made it.
ooo that looks good
unfortunately i cant make it… peanutbutter is banned in this house
(missus will eat it out of the jar with a spoon get fat and blame me for getting it)
what can i say….when you live with someone…wierd rules happen
I agree. Peanut butter should be eaten out of the jar with a spoon.
I”m ok with peanut butter but god help the man who brings Biscoff spread into this house.
…somehow never came across that stuff before…generally keep my sandwiches separate from my biscuits/cookies so I guess it never came up?
I assure you, it is the devil.
Correction: peanut butter should be mixed together with equal amounts of honey, refrigerated for an hour, and THEN eaten with a spoon.
You’re welcome.
That sounds amazing
The trick is to use natural peanut butter because the other stuff is already loaded with sugar and screws up the flavor.
LOL I banned peanut butter in my own house because my husband does that. I need him to live past 40 please.
Peanut butter eaten by spoon is what nature intended.
This cake looks fantastic. But I don’t know that we could eat a whole cake before it got stale, there’s just two of us here. And I’m not sharing with friends and neighbors right now because of this killjoy pandemic. Do you think the recipe could be halved, and baked in a loaf pan?
So I think you could probably slice it and wrap the slices really well and freeze it. I do that with other kinds of cakes and they are 95% fine.
I bet it could. Today I made Keitel birthday peanut butter brownies, banana bread because somehow the bananas were over ripe, and an apple pie. We will freeze a lot of it.
So far Mr. McGee has has THREE bunches of bananas delivered with the groceries. I made banana bread yesterday, having fallen for his ploy.
I resemble that remark.
Oh my. This is getting made.
My humble suggestion: a light chocolate frosting, or served with a fruit compote — dessert pb&j!