Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Peanut Butter Cake


If you have been following my son Dan's blog Urban Veggie Garden you will know he is making hard cider. He found Hergott's Cider Mill in Waterloo that does not pasteurize the cider. They are selling the cider part of the business and keeping the honey which they will be selling at their new location. They have a store as well and I bought this cookbook. In browsing through the book I saw this cake and it sounded like it would be very good. It is really good, moist, tender the frosting is not to sweet.


Peanut Butter Cake

Ingredients:

1/4 cup soft butter
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
1 cup thick sour milk (add 2 tbsp. vinegar, let stand a couple minutes to thicken)
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350ยบ.

In small bowl combine flour salt and baking soda with whisk. In mixer bowl combine butter and peanut butter until smooth. Add brown sugar and mix until smooth, add eggs, one at at time. Add warm water and sour milk and mix until smooth and silky. Add flour a little at a time. Combine until just mixed.

Pour mixture into prepared baking pans. Either 2 9" baking pans or a 9 X 13" pan. Grease and flour pans.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes for the 9" pans and 30 to 40 minutes for the 9 X 13" pan.

Frosting:

1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
2 tbsp. butter
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 cups icing sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
4 to 5 tbsp. milk

Melt the chocolate in microwave.
In mixer bowl combine chocolate butter and peanut butter and mix until smooth.
alternate icing sugar and milk until you have the desired consistency is reached.
Spread on cooled cake.


4 comments:

Katy said...

I'll wager this was very good indeed, and for those who are peanut butter aficionados this a real gem. We eat a lot of peanut butter here, sometimes just on toast for breakfast, so a cake like this, with a chocolate and peanut butter frosting to boot, WOW!!!

Wandering Coyote said...

Hey there! Thanks for finding me on ReTorte and leaving a comment! I'll for sure add you to my bookmarks so I can keep up. It's always nice to find new Canadian food bloggers!

Rosanne said...

This does sound good!

Tia said...

the chocolate frosting looks marveious and luscious!

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