Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake

Servings: 8 Total Time: 1 hr 39 mins Difficulty: Intermediate
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This chocolate peanut butter bundt cake gives you the double doses of both flavours! It’s a delicious dense and moist cake made with chocolate and peanut butter batters, and topped with peanut butter, and chocolate ganache.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake

Author: Lorraine Cauchi Cooking Method: Cuisine: Courses:
Difficulty: Intermediate Prep Time 40 mins Cook Time 59 mins Total Time 1 hr 39 mins
Cooking Temp: 180  C Servings: 8
Best Season: Suitable throughout the year

Ingredients

For The Chocolate Batter

For The Peanut Butter Batter

Topping:

Method

Cake Pan:

  1. Preheat oven 180C/350F.

  2. Grease and dust your cake pan with flour and cocoa powder.

  3. Cream sugar and oil together in a large bowl. Beat in egg, vanilla and milk.

  4. In a medium bowl mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

  5. Slowly add flour mixture to the oil mixture until well combined, then carefully a little at a time STIR in the boiling water. Set aside.

Peanut Butter:

  1. In a large bowl cream together the butter, peanut butter, and sugar. Beat in egg. 

  2. Carefully add 1/3 of the flour, followed by 1/3 of the buttermilk mixing well between each addition.

Cake Batter:

  1. Pour a small amount of chocolate batter into the prepared cake tin.

  2. Dot large spoonfuls of peanut butter and top, more chocolate batter and continue until all the batter is in the pan. Bake in oven for approximately 1hour.

  3. Remove from pan and cool completely.

Topping For Cake:

  1. Warm the peanut butter in the microwave a little so that it is soft enough to drizzle of the cake and pour it over cooled cake.

  2. Put the chocolate chips and cream in a small bowl, warm in the microwave, remove and stir until smooth. Leave to cool. Pour into a piping bag, cut off the tip and drizzle over the cake.

  3. If you don't have a piping bag you can drizzle it with a spoon.

  4. Top with chocolates, smarties and a few chocolate chips.