Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cake
Peanut Butter and chocolate chunk cake with a dark chocolate ganache cake.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter at room temperature(I used the salty and hence skipped on extra salt)
- 1 cups granulated white sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract homemade-vanilla pods in vodka
- ½ cups Dark chocolate bar smashed I used Amul 50 % Dark Chocolate
Glaze
- Dark chocolate-50 gms i used Amul 70 % dark Chocolate
- 4 spoons of milk
- 1 tablespoon Peanut butter
- Chocolate chips to sprinkle
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
- Beat the butter and peanut butter together. It is important that all the ingredients are at room temperature.
- Add the sugar and beat again(or whisk).
- Add the eggs and the vanilla extract and mix well.
- Mix the flour and baking powder.Add to the egg mixture slowly and mix well.
- Bake for 40 minutes till the inserted skewer comes clean.
- Let the cake cool.
Glaze
- Microwave all chocolate,milk and peanut butter together for 30 seconds.Using a spoon mix.
- Repeat the process 2 more times till the chocolate has fully melted and is of desired consistency.
- (Note:The ganache always becomes thicker when cooled.)
- Pour the ganache on the cake.Sprinkle with choco chips.