Peanut Butter Jelly Time Cake
My friend April is having a bebe!!
It’s a long story… well not really, I just can’t be bothered explaining it…. but her and her hubs have nicknamed the baby “Peanut”. There is another story where you had to be there, about why Peanut’s surname is Sparty.
Wow, exciting blog post this is ey? Lots of half told stories, going no where…
ANYWAY, I made this awesome cake for the baby shower. It was just going to be chocolate cake, until Haz said she was making peanut cookies, then I realised I needed to bring something peanut-y. Hence the peanut butter swirl came to be. THEN I wanted to coat it in ganache and smother it in raspberries like Katie Quinn Davis had done…. and then I had my final masterpiece.
To say this experiment was a success might be a slight understatement. I don’t want to toot my own horn here but it was a cake you just couldn’t say no to.
THIS CAKE WAS AMAZEBALLS! And if you don’t believe, I can give you a long list of references to clarify my tastebuds 😛
The recipe below I’ve only made in the Thermomix, so I hope my translation into non-thermo-mode works out well!
(For those with Thermomixes – it is essentially the Too Easy Chocolate Cake from the Everyday Cookbook, doubled, with added chocolate and peanut butter).
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Adapted from Thermomix – Too Easy Chocolate Cake & What Katie Ate – Chocolate Fudge Cake
240g butter (melted)
100g good quality chocolate (melted)
4 eggs
200g milk
2 teaspoon vanilla essence
240g sugar
240g self-raising flour
60g cocoa
2 teaspoon baking powder
Smooth peanut butter (as much as you desire)
Icing
200g good quality dark chocolate
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
125g icing sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon cocoa, sifted
30ml water
60ml milk
x3 punnets raspberries, to serve
1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line the base of a 22cm circle baking tin with baking paper.
2. Add melted butter and chocolate to the dry ingredients and mix.
3. Scoop out how much peanut butter you want to add, and put it into a bowl. Put in the microwave for 30 secs, or until softened slightly.
4. Pour into cake tin, add dollops of peanut butter on top of the cake batter, and swirl a butter knife.
5. Bake in centre of pre-heated oven for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
6. Cool on a wire rack until completely cool.
7. To make the icing: melt chocolate in a pot over water as above in stage 2* of the cake prep. While the chocolate is melting add the icing sugar, cocoa and butter into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle beater. Beat together until well combined then pour in the melted chocolate ~ the mixture may look very dry and crumbly and almost ‘split’ but rest assured this is fine. Add the water and milk and beat everything together gradually increasing the speed as you go until you get a thick, glossy and smooth chocolate icing.
8. To ice the cake, spread out 1 or 2 pieces of aluminium foil of a flat, clean surface onto which place the cake (on it’s wire rack – this method makes so super fast cleaning up!).
9. Using an angled palette knife ice the cake using up all the frosting. Allow to stand for 10 minutes then chill in the fridge. If using raspberries, place them on the cake just before the icing is totally set so you have a bit of ‘glue’ to stop them falling off.
10. Dust with icing sugar, and serve.
Daisy@Nevertoosweet
Didn’t think you were going to blog this already 🙂 YAY! Yes I shamelessly had 3 slices and I want MORE 😛 Will need to make it soon I might add some Reese PB cups in the cake as well as dollops of PB 😛 xox
milkteaxx
oh my god! i can even feel its deliciousness just reading about it!
kiran
Uhbloodymazingerlicious…shellie. I need ro tey this masterpiece of yours. It looks simply marvelous. So proud of you, hun. You are an amazing inspiration…. and by gosh you can whip up a storm with a thunder stick 🙂 congrata hun. Xxx
Sarah
I loved this cake so much! Peanut butter dollops for the win!
PS I LOVE BRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
gourmetgetaways
Oh what a gorgeous looking cake!! I cannot begin to imagine how good it would taste with peanut butter swirls YUMMY!
Congratulations to your friend 🙂
Ira
Errrr… Peanut Butter, Chocolate ANDDDD Rasberries? SHUT. THE. FRONT. DOOR.
I might need to make this. Stat. 🙂
KathyB
Hi Shellie, this cake sounds so delicious & looks amazing. Can you add your Thermomix recipe of it please for those of us who do have one? I have birthdays coming up & would love to make it. Thanks Kathy
Iron Chef Shellie
Hi Kathy,
It is essentially the Too Easy Chocolate Cake recipe from the Everyday cookbook 🙂
Hannah
Babe, you don’t need to justify it. Chocolate and peanut butter can never be wrong.
Leah
OMG Im making this cake. It looks amazing, i want to lick the screen. i LOVE anything chocolate AND peanut butter. Delicious. Thanks for sharing xo
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
Too easy 🙂 I love chocolate and peanut butter!!
Heidi - Apples Under My Bed
Oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my!!! Seriously. Amaze.
Heidi xo
Winnie @ Eat.Play.Shop.
Gonna go make this in Thermie! Did you make the icing in the thermomix too? I have had multiple failed icing attempts 🙁
Iron Chef Shellie
I didn’t actually, I made it the old fashioned way 😛
tania@mykitchenstories.com.au
Looks great, wish I had a thermomix
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
LOL I love the little cartoon. It looks so fun! 😀 Is that Brian from Family Guy?
Iron Chef Shellie
Indeed it is Brian from Family Guy 😉
msihua
Super gun totting amazeballs cake! I don’t even eat cake and I ate half my slice (unlike a certain somebody *cough* wince* *cough* … YUM!
Ashley
Awwww shiiiittttttt! Love peanut butter jelly time!
Iron Chef Shellie
BAHAHAHA!!!
Beccy
OMG! This looks delicious! I have a real soft spot for peanut butter and chocolate (thinking Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups) and an even BIGGER soft spot for Brian Griffins version of Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!
Iron Chef Shellie
mmmm Reese’s peanut butter cups are heaven!! … whilst watching Family Guy 😉
Marta @ What should I eat for breakfast today
I love the pattern, so nice. And raspberries on top, yummy. I am not surprise that people could not resist. Congrats on your friend’s baby!
Elle @ The Cupcake Ballroom
Mmmmmmm, peanut butter jelly in the form of cake. Gotta try that one day! Now my tummy is grumbling at this hour by just looking at it.
Agnes
It was totally amazeballs.
Mhmm balls.
Jacqueline
Hi Shellie
This cake looks great and I’d love to make it for a friend’s birthday this weekend. I clicked Sixinchheel’s trackback post “Asian Birthday Feast Chicken Curry” where she mentioned that you thought the cake was a bit dry when you made it for that occasion. Any tips on how to make sure it turns out nice and moist?
Thanks 🙂
Iron Chef Shellie
Hi Jacqueline,
I only thought it was dry because I had to cook it for longer than I anticipated. Cook for the time detailed, then check. If a skewer doesn’t come out clean keep cooking, I usually go in 10 min lots and keep checking. Good luck 🙂