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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Peanut Butter

    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    Published: Feb 12, 2016 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake
    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake
    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake
    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    This ultimate chocolate peanut butter cake is deliciously light and drool-worthy!  It's layered with creamy peanut butter mousse, chocolate fudge ganache and loaded with our favorite Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!  My 'peanut butter' cup love can keep running over with this.  I won't complain. 

    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    This cake is such a delectable dessert for your romantic Valentine Dinner!  Or any time when you want to impress!  

    It's baked in a loaf pan and then split down the middle to add all the goodies in the center and on top! Talk about some peanut butter and chocolate love!  

    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    Now even if you end up going out to dinner and all that jazz, you still might want to make this for the special ones in your life. The smitten explosions of peanut butter and chocolate overload will send your heart out to orbit.  Ready to live dangerously?  

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    And know what's really cool?  I made these Double Stuffed Peanut Butter Cup Bliss Cupcakes using the same exact ingredients as this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake! They are truly the most rich and decadent cupcakes ever!  

    More Peanut Butter Cup Dreams!

    • Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cookies
    • Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Krispie Treats
    • Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies
    • Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
    • Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownies
    • Creamy Home-made Mini Peanut Butter Cups
    • Ultimate Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Trifle

     

    Here's the recipe!  Enjoy those peanut butter and chocolate explosions! 

    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

    Kim Lange
    The peanut butter cake is light and moist, Perfectly layered with that creamy peanut butter mousse, chocolate fudge ganache and our favorite -- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! My cup can keep running over with this. I won't complain.
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    Course Dessert
    Servings 8
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    Ingredients
      

    Peanut Butter Cake

    • ¾ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoons baking powder
    • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 2 ½ Tablespoons olive oil or your choice
    • 3 Tablespoons Reese's peanut butter
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • ½ cup buttermilk or milk of choice
    • ½ teaspoon maple syrup or vanilla extract

    Chocolate Ganache Glaze

    • 1 cup whipping cream
    • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
    • ¼ cup peanut butter chips or peanut butter

    Peanut Butter Mousse Frosting

    • 4 tablespoons butter softened
    • ¼ cup Reese's peanut butter
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
    • 5 tablespoons whipping cream or milk add more if needed
    • 1 bag mini or large Reese's Peanut Butter Cups cut into chunks

    Instructions
     

    Peanut Butter Cake

    • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease 9x5 loaf pan.
    • In a medium bowl, add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk for about 45 seconds.
    • Using a mixer, in a large bowl add the peanut butter, oil, and brown sugar and beat until combined.
    • Add eggs and maple syrup or vanilla extract and continue beating until just combined.
    • Alternately add the flour and buttermilk to the wet mixture, beating just until combined and do not overbeat. (A few small lumps of flour is fine, overbeating will result in a dry, dense cake.)
    • Pour batter into the bread loaf pan.
    • Bake for about 15-18 minutes.
    • Let the cake sit in the pan for 5 minutes, then invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.

    Chocolate Ganache Glaze

    • Microwave the heavy cream in the microwave for 2-3 minutes or starting to boil.
    • Add in chocolate and peanut butter chips and let sit for a minute or two then whisk for a couple of minutes.

    Peanut Butter Mousse Frosting

    • Cream butter and add in all other ingredients until combined and creamy.
    • Cut the cooled cake in half horizontally. Frost the bottom top half of the cake, drizzle some chocolate ganache and then add some chopped Reese cups on top
    • Place the top layer of the cake, upside down, on top of the bottom layer and repeat with another layer of frosting, chocolate ganache and Reese's cups.
    • Place in fridge until ready to slice and serve.
    Keyword cake, chocolate, layered dessert, peanut butter, peanut butter and chocolate, peanut butter cups
    Tried This Recipe?Let us know how it was by commenting below!

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    About Kim Lange

    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. ChocolaTess says

      March 14, 2016 at 9:48 pm

      Me too Joyce!! 🙂

    2. Joyce says

      March 13, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      Oh I LOVE anything peanut butter even more is peanut butter with chocolate together.

    3. ChocolaTess says

      February 14, 2016 at 1:20 pm

      Thank goodness *sometimes* moderation has to step in the way, ...because I would be right there with ya! Thank goodness for family and friends.

    4. teresa says

      February 12, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      Oh, my gosh, Kim, you've done it again. Love this. I would weigh a thousand pounds if I lived in your house!!!

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