Baking a birthday cake, can you help?!
Baking a birthday cake, can you help?
It's my mom's birthday, and I am an experienced baker. I want to make her something special, and she is a chocolate lover, as well as a peanut butter lover. She is not big on thick frosting. Can you please share a unique cake recipe? My fiance and I are low on money this month, so this will be her main present. Thank you!
Answers: heres one i made for a friend and she loved it! she said it was like eating a peanut butter cup.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake
INGREDIENTS
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
2 cups white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons butter, melted
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one sheet cake pan or one cookie sheet with 1 inch sides.
In a large bowl, beat eggs until lemon colored. Add vanilla and salt. Stir in sugar, flour, milk, baking powder, and melted butter or margarine.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Do not overbake.
While the cake is still warm, spread with peanut butter. Immediately sprinkle with chocolate morsels, and put the pan back into the oven to melt the chocolate. Spread the chocolate evenly over the peanut butter. Refrigerate until chocolate is set. Alternatively, you can let the peanut butter cool and harden. Later, melt the chocolate, and spread it on the cake. It comes out in two distinct peanut butter and chocolate layers that way.
happy birthday to your mom! I think a chocolate-chip, chocolate-syrup, cocoa-dusted brownie cake with stripes of thin peanut butter frosting (harder to make, there's a trillion recipes on the web for it so pick whichever sounds best. ^_-) across the top would be nice. Colorful, and you could use some of the little candies to spell out her name and happy birthday? Add some candles and voila. Cake! white cake mix. chocolate chunks, peanut butter and icing sugar.
mix cake as per directions. Add chocolate chunks to cake reserving a few for top. Bake cake as per direction. It will be a bit gooey around chocolate.
Mix peanut butter and icing sugar together(chunky peanut butter works best)
When cake is baked and cooled apply icing and smooth. Grate chocolate on top.
It is not the gift that matters to mothers it is the caring and thought that goes into it. One of these would be good - no frosting
Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Chips
From Diana Rattray,
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Peanut butter cake is made with a yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding and peanut butter and chocolate chips.
INGREDIENTS:
soft butter
1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts
1 box (2 layer size) yellow cake mix
1 package instant vanilla pudding mix (3 3/4 ounces)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 cups water
4 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup coconut, optional
PREPARATION:
Generously butter a 10-cup bundt cake pan with the soft butter. Sprinkle the finely chopped peanuts in pan; shake to coat entire buttered surface.
In a mixing bowl beat cake mix and pudding mix, oil, water, and eggs until well blended, about 4 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer.
Beat in the peanut butter. Pour about 1/3 of the batter into the pan; sprinkle with a layer of half of the chocolate chips and coconut. Repeat. Pour remaining batter into the pan and bake at 350° for about 55 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto rack and cool thoroughly
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Bundt Cake (Adapted from Canadian Living)
For the filling
2/3 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon butter, softened
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
For the cake batter
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoons salt
12 tablespoons natural cocoa powder
3/4 cup boiling water
3 ounces quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
12 tablespoons sour cream
12 tablespoons butter, softened
1 2/3 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
Preheat oven to 350
To make the filling
In a large mixing bowl, beat peanut butter, cream cheese and butter until combined. Add egg yolks, one at a time, and beat until combined. Mix in vanilla. Be sure to scrape down the sides. Pour in sugar and flour, mix until combined. Fit a pastry bag with a large plain tip and scoop the filling into the bag. Place in the refrigerator until ready to use.
To make the batter
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
In a medium metal or glass bowl, add cocoa and whisk in boiling water. Add in chopped chocolate and whisk until smooth. Mix in sour cream.
In large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs, one at a time, and then beat in vanilla. Alternatively mix in the dry ingredients and the cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. For example - mix in 1/3 of the flour, 1/2 of the cocoa mixture, another 1/3 of the flour, the rest of the cocoa mixture and finishing with the final 1/3 of the flour. Mixing just until combined with each addition.
Spray a bundt pan with a nonstick spray that has flour included (like Baker's Joy or Pam with Flour). Spoon a little less than half of the batter into bottom of the bundt pan. Using the pastry bag that has the peanut butter mixture, carefully pipe a ring of the filling over the center of the chocolate batter. Pour the remaining batter on top and gently tap the pan to remove air bubbles.
Bake until top springs back when lightly touched or a toothpick comes out mostly clean with a few crumbs attached - about 50-60 minutes. Remove from the oven and set on a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Place a wire cooling rack on top of the cake and carefully turn over - remove the pan and let cool completely.
Note: If you don't have a pastry bag, you can use a ziploc bag with the corner snipped off, or you can just spoon the filling in instead. It just won't be a perfectly shaped as with the pastry bag