The delicious combination of chocolate and peanut butter come together beautifully in this Homemade Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting.
Chocolate Cake With Peanut Butter Frosting
I’ve been making this delicious old fashioned chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting for 30 yrs. I have an old recipe binder that I started years ago when I was bitten by the baking bug. The pages are yellowed now and some of the recipes have broken free from the binder and are tucked in there as best they can be.
That’s where this recipe has lived for many years. I can’t tell you where it originated from, but I can tell you that my sister-in-law gave it to me.
In April 2008 this chocolate cake made it’s debut as the first recipe I ever put on my blog. It’s very special to me and brings back memories of birthday parties and special occasions with my kids.
So what makes this Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting so special? The flavor is very special. Chocolate and coffee combined give you a spectacular mocha flavor. The texture of the cake is very moist and soft. The Peanut Butter Frosting makes the cake fantastic. Who can resist the combination of chocolate and peanut butter.
I make this in a 13×9 inch pan, I’ve also made it as a layer cake. if you don’t need that much cake, half the recipe and make it in a 9 inch cake pan. When you make this, be prepared to give out the recipe, it’s really that good.
Any way you make it, your going to love it, especially the peanut butter frosting. I’ve always frosted this cake with peanut butter frosting but feel free to use the frosting of your choice. I hope you enjoy Homemade Chocolate Cake With Peanut Butter Frosting for as many years as I have, ENJOY!
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Chocolate Cake With Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 tsps vanilla
- 1 cup brewed coffee instant coffee will do in a pinch
- Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 TBLS milk or as needed
- 2 cups confectioners sugar
Instructions
Cake Directions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease the bottom and sides of a 13x9 inch baking pan.
- Mix the flour sugar, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda together in a large bowl.
- Beat the eggs with an electric mixer until they are bright yellow and slightly thick. Add the oil, coffee and vanilla to the eggs, mix until well incorporated. Add the flour to the mix, alternating with the buttermilk, mixing after each addition until just incorporated. Start with the flour first, then buttermilk, flour, buttermilk and end with flour.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan. I always hold the pan up a few inches from the counter and let it fall to get rid of air bubbles in the batter. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour. Test for doneness with a toothpick.
Frosting Directions
- Place the butter and peanut butter into a medium bowl, and beat with an electric mixer. Gradually mix in the sugar, and when it starts to get thick, incorporate milk one tablespoon at a time until all of the sugar is mixed in and the frosting is thick and spreadable. Beat for at least 3 minutes for it to get good and fluffy. Frost cake after it has cooled completely.
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Awesome Recipe Thanks so much a MUST try!!!
I made this cake last night for my husbands birthday today. It was delicious. Everyone loved it especially my grandchildren. It would have helped i the batter f I had known the batter would be runny. I thought I had made a mistake, but had run out of ingredients to start over. I put the batter in the greased pan and boy was i surprised that it rose and that it tasted great!
Sorry I didn’t proof read. The fourth sentence should have read, ‘It would have helped if I had know the batter would be runny.’
Sorry Joan, I’ve made it so many times that I just didn’t think about that. So happy you loved it!
Tried the chocolate cske without the frosting and it turned really delicious
and moist. thank you! Philly Rangel
I love this cake Philly! Been making it forever, so happy you loved it too! Thanks for coming back to tell me!
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oh my goodness! this cake looks delicious!
Now this is a recipe for the weekend.
This looks amazing! My family would love it:) Thanks for sharing!
Your welcome Shannon! They will LOVE IT!!
CravinRecipes, it’s a fantastic recipe!
Pink Little cake, thank you!!
Francesca, thank you so much!
Wonderful brownies!!
I’m definitely making this recipe, and I know it’s be a hit with my family.
Thanks!!
Brownies?
What could I use in place of buttermilk??
Anonymous, add 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to a cup of milk and let it sit for about ten minutes. Ir will sour the milk and you can use that instead of buttermilk.
Thank you Winnie, it’s a wonderful cake!
I made this for my teenage son to take to a party and it got rave reviews!! One of the girl’s even asked for the recipe. Now I’ll have to make it for home so that I can taste it!!
Does it habe any coffee flavor? If sonmy husband wont like it…but he loves chocolate/peanut butter things 🙂
How can this be made into a 3 layer cake? What adjustments in ingredients would be necessary? Thanks for your reply.
I’m going to make cup cakes with this
Any suggestions for a substitute for the coffee in the recipe? Looks like an amazing recipe, but I don’t like coffee in recipes. Maybe dark hot chocolate instead?
If you haven’t made this yet…You are missing out on a moist, awesome cake.. I am eating a piece of it now.. Just made it for the first time today…Enjoy it, because I am
Anonymous, great idea using the dark hot chocolate!! You could also just you water, but I like your idea better!
Eve, you know that cake is good if a teenage girl is asking for the recipe!! LOL!! Good for you!!
Lindsay, when you mix chocolate and coffee together you get a mocha flavor. If you want to know what mocha tastes like, take a cup of coffee if you drink it and add a half a packet of hot chocolate to it. Stir it around and taste it, maybe you could do that for hubby to see if he thinks he would like the flavor.