(please excuse the messy cutting job. A nine year old insisted she help!)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate Cake
from Annie's eats
2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder (i used a DARK cocoa powder)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
4 oz good quality dark chocolate melted and cooled
Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
In mixing bowl, beat butter until soft and creamy. Add sugar and mix two minutes. Add eggs and yolks one at a time. Add in vanilla.
Add in about a third of the dry ingredients. Then half of the buttermilk, then another third of dry ingredients, the rest of the buttermilk, and finish up with the dry ingredients. Mix just until combined with each addition. You don't want to over mix a cake. Fold in the melted chocolate.
Pour batter into 2 greased eight or nine inch baking pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 28 to 32 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cook to room temperature.
Peanut Butter Filling
adapted from Food network
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup peanut butter
5 TBSP unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup heavy cream
Mix butter and peanut butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt. Mix until smooth. Add in cream and beat on high until you get a thick, but spreadable consistency.
Chocolate Ganache Frosting
16 oz chocolate finely chopped (I used 12 oz milk chocolate and 4 oz dark)
1 2/3 cup heavy cream
Bring cream to a boil. Pour over chopped chocolate and stir until well mixed and smooth. Let cool, and then refrigerate for several hours until very thick.
Beat on high until nice and fluffy.
TO ASSEMBLE THE CAKE, place one cake on cake plate. Spoon peanut butter filling over cake and spread into a thick, even layer. Top with second cake. Frost.
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