I offered to make a cake for a friend’s birthday party and decided that it needed to be quite a large cake due to the number of people who might be coming to the do. A Bundt cake was ideal.
It also needed to be a bloke’s cake, nothing too girly or frilly, and the idea of a peanut butter cake sprang to mind. The absence of any topping that might melt or slide off in transit on a very warm summer’s afternoon in the Loire Valley was also a consideration, so a light dusting of icing sugar was perfect.
A quick look on Google led me to this cake on the DollyBakes blog – peanut butter and jelly cake. It was, as I expected from Rachel’s recipes, a great success.
I forgot to take pictures of the cake when it was cut which would show how the inside looked and how perfectly the jelly was distributed but, if you look at the original blog post, it turned out exactly like that! The crunchy peanut butter gave just the right amount of crunch and flavour and the jelly was a nice little surprise in every slice.
I followed the recipe precisely, using blackberry jelly as the jam and taking care to keep it away from the edges of the cake as suggested. I have experienced before the amazing effect that jam has in gluing the cake to the tin if it gets too close to the edge!
My Bundt tin was just the right shape and size for the cake to accommodate a mansize candle in the middle too. So we all wished Simon a Happy Birthday and after he’d blown out the candle the cake was cut easily into a huge number of generous slices.
Definitely a good one for a crowd. To see the recipe, click here.
Cuts into at least 15 slices.
It was nicely peanutty. Many thanks for baking it. I know Simon appreciated it (and had several slices...)
ReplyDeletegorgeous! I want to see inside! I'm making a jam cake right this very second but I don't have any peanut butter. I also love the idea of a bundt for a big party, never think of that but makes total sense!
ReplyDeleteWell that would suit anyone on their birthday I'd say. Lovely blokey stuff. I'm not sure that I've often thought of cakes as being blokey or girly before but you're right, of course, and I think that I tend to go for the blokey.
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