Chocolate Peanut Butter Layered Bundt Cake #BundAMonth
Super bowl may be happening this weekend, but Valentine’s Day is on the horizon. I think back to when I was growing up, and one special memory from Valentine’s Day was my Dad giving us each a small heart shaped box of candy. Go figure why I always associate Valentine’s Day with chocolate. Thanks, Dad! 
The #BundtAMonth team must think of chocolate too, because I am excited to share that it is the theme for our February linky! I had to go big or go home this month, so I went HUGE with my
Chocolate Peanut Butter Layered Bundt Cake.
A friend recently brought cupcakes into the office a few weeks ago, and they were so delicious I knew right away I wanted to try switching the recipe into a bundt. You can find the original cupcake recipe HERE. This cake is a little labor intensive with the dual batters, but trust me when I say it is completely worth the time and effort.
This cake bursts with peanut butter flavor, while the not too sweet, dark cocoa layer becomes the perfect compliment. Coworkers first saw the inside and said, “Wow! That’s a lot of peanut butter.” I was quick to explain that what they thought was all peanut butter, was in fact, the baked peanut butter batter, made with cream cheese and the other ingredients. This cake truly was phenomenal, and a must try if you, or anyone if your family is a chocolate and peanut butter combination fan!
If peanut butter is not your thing, but you love chocolate, check out the list of chocolate themed bundts being shared by the group this month! I am pretty sure you will find at least one that makes your heart skip a beat.
Chocolate Berry Bundt Cake by Heather from Hezzi D’s Books and CooksChocolate Bundt Cake with Balsamic Strawberry Sauce by Alice from Hip Foodie Mom
Chocolate Chobani Bundt Cake by Carrie from Poet In The Pantry
Chocolate Espresso Bundt Cake by Holly from A Baker’s House
Chocolate Mini Bundts with Matcha Flowers by Kim from Ninja Baking
Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Bundt Cake by Anita from Hungry Couple
Chocolate Rocky Road Bundt Cake by Tara from Noshing With The Nolands
Chocolate Turtle Bundt Cake by Kim from Cravings Of A Lunatic
Deep Chocolate Be Mine Bundt by Stacy from Food Lust People Love
Double Chocolate Swirled Bundt Cake by Laura from The Spiced Life
Chocolate Peanut Butter Layered Bundt Cake by Karen from In The Kitchen With KP
Red Wine Chocolate Bundt Cake with Mascarpone Whipped Cream by Kate from Food Babbles
Sour Cream Chocolate Bundt Cake by Renee from Magnolia Days
Quadruple Chocolate Bundt Cake by Dorothy from Shockingly Delicious
Vanilla and Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake by Anuradha from Baker Street
White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake by Paula from Vintage Kitchen
Want to join in and bake a bundt with the #BundtAMonth group?Here’s how you can be a part of Bundt-a-Month:- Simple rule: Use chocolate - and bake a Bundt for February
- Post it before February 28, 2013.
- Use the #BundtAMonth hashtag in your title. (For ex: title should read #BundtAMonth: Chocolate Cinnamon Bundt)
- Add your entry to the Linky tool below
- Link back to our announcement posts.
Follow Bundt-a-Month on Facebook where we feature all our gorgeous bundt cakes. Or head over to our Pinterest board for inspiration and choose from over 350 Bundt cake recipes.
- Chocolate Cake Batter
- 1½ cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
- ⅓ cup Hershey’s® baking cocoa
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- ½ teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
- Peanut Butter Batter
- 1 LAND O LAKES® Egg
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- ¾ cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- Glaze
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- ¼ Cup of creamy peanut butter
- ½ Cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons of milk
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray bundt pan with Pam and coat generously with plain bread crumbs.
- In large bowl, mix flour, cocoa, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Add oil, water, vinegar and vanilla to flour mixture, stirring just until smooth (do not overmix).
- In another large bowl, beat egg, cream cheese, peanut butter and granulated sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add powdered sugar; beat until creamy.
- Drop large dollops of the peanut butter batter into bundt pan.
- Pour chocolate batter over peanut butter batter dollops.
- Drop remaining peanut butter batter in dollops around pan.
- Cover with remaining chocolate batter
- Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (do not overbake).
- Cool in pan 10 minutes.
- Invert pan onto baking rack and allow cake to completely cool before topping with glaze.
- Making glaze
- Melt butter in small bowl
- In separate small bowl microwave peanut butter until smooth, then mix thoroughly with melted butter
- Add powdered sugar to butter mixture until consistency changes to thick paste
- Add milk, stir thoroughly. Add a few more drops of milk if necessary to get the consistency you want.
- Drizzle warm glaze over completely cooled cake
- Allow glaze to cool and set for 5-10 minutes, then serve.
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You certainly went big with this month! Love the PB and Chocolate combination! Gorgeous colors and flavors! Thanks for baking along, Karen!
Baker Street recently posted..Vanilla and Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake #BundtaMonth
Twitter: Hungrycouplenyc
says:
Extra, extra yummy!!!
Anita at Hungry Couple recently posted..Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Bundt Cake #BundtAMonth
If you look real close, squint, and turn your head a bit to the side, you can clearly see “Renee” in the peanut butter drizzle. You know why? Because that cake has my name written all over it.
Renee recently posted..Sour Cream Chocolate Bundt Cake for #BundtAMonth
LOL Renee! I looove that! Happy too, ’cause it called my name all day Monday when I brought it to the office.
I don´t think there is too much peanut butter and also that it´s worth the work. It´s fabulous Karen! Amazing! Love it! Pinning it!
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen recently posted..White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake #BundtaMonth
It’s worth the extra dishes. Just don’t get tempted to eat the peanut butter batter. If left alone, let’s just say, it may have been a chocolate bundt.
Wow. Just. Yeah. . See I’m speechless. That’s how much I love this.
Susan recently posted..Meatball Wellington
You need this in your life, Susan. Everyone does. #Fact
Wow!! What a cake! I love that you went beyond the traditional chocolate cake and set yours apart with a beautiful peanut butter filling and topping. I am guessing this cake didn’t last long!! I would eat it down to the last crumb!
Holly recently posted..Chocolate Espresso Bundt Cake #BundtAMonth
Twitter: NinjaBaking
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Absolutely beautiful! Love PB and dark chocolate =) This recipe is a keeper!
Many thanks.
Twitter: PoetInThePantry
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“If peanut butter is not your thing…” Blasphemy! This may be my favorite cake this month! YUM!
Carrie @ poet in the pantry recently posted..#FirstOnTheFirst: Creamsicle Oatmeal Lace Cookies
I know, Carrie! As if!!! LOL
Twitter: srushton1
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I think that chocolate and peanut butter go great together. Sweet and a bit salty too. And I love that peanut butter glaze. Wow!
Stacy recently posted..Deep Chocolate Be Mine Bundt for #BundtaMonth
I may or may not have licked the rest of the glaze out of the bowl, Stacy.
Twitter: srushton1
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Cook’s privilege!
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Karen!!!
Oh my goodness!!! I seriously LOVE this cake! I think yours is the first one I will have to bake! I love chocolate + peanut butter so much. . . a little too much. . you can probably guess what my fave candy bar is. anyway, I LOVE this!!!
Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom recently posted..Chocolate Bundt Cake with Balsamic Strawberry Sauce for #Bundtamonth
Let me know how it turns out for you, Alice! I am definitely making it again! It was one of my best bundts, next to the anise one.
Twitter: Cupcakekalechip
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OMG, pinned, tweeted, shared, and all of the above because in my world, there is no such thing as too much peanut butter. When I am done with this whole gestational diabetes thing, I am making a gluten free version!
Brianne @ Cupcakes & Kale Chips recently posted..Google+ Blog Hop for February
I’d love to see a gluten free version! Let me know how it comes out when you make it. You can give it a try after that beautiful baby comes out!
Oh, peanut butter is SO my thing!!!! And this cake would definitely be my thing in one of my daughters didn’t have a severe peanut allergy. This cake makes me SO sad that I can’t have peanut butter anymore because I want this cake in the absolute worse way.
Kate | Food Babbles recently posted..Red Wine Chocolate Bundt Cake with Mascarpone Whipped Cream – #Bundtamonth
I’ll make it again, and you can come over for some, Kate!
OMG, chocolate and peanut butter, love it!!
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Twitter: HezziD
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So cool how you did you layers in your cake as well as the drizzle on top.
Hezzi-D recently posted..Into the Dark by Stacy Green + EBook giveaway!
The glaze on that is simply gorgeous. I can never get mine so nice and even looking. Yum!
Laura recently posted..#BundtAMonth: Double Chocolate Swirled Bundt Cake