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Ashley Judd's Peanut Butter Cake
- Total Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 8ounces butter, softened
- 1½cups sugar
- 2egg yolks, beaten well
- ¼cup creamy peanut butter
- 1½cups sifted cake flour
- 1teaspoon baking powder
- ½cup buttermilk
- ½cup water
- 1teaspoon baking soda
- 2egg whites
Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease an 8- by 2-inch round cake pan (or a 9-inch pan) and line with a parchment round. Grease and flour the parchment.
- Step 2
Beat in butter until fluffy. Beat in sugar. Beat in yolks and then peanut butter until smooth.
- Step 3
Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Combine the buttermilk and water in another bowl and stir in the baking soda. Into the yolk mixture, beat in the flour mixture, in fourths, alternating with the buttermilk mixture and ending with the flour mixture.
- Step 4
Beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold into the batter with a rubber spatula. Spread the batter in a prepared pan. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the cake in a pan on a wire rack, about 10 minutes. Invert onto the rack; invert onto another rack, so that the cake cools with top side up. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Cooking Notes
Once I re-made this recipe, it turned out great - sponge isn't too dense, just the right amount of peanut butter flavor. BUT, the recipe as written requires TWO 8" round cake pans, not one. Learned this the hard way with filling up one tin with all the batter and watching it spill all over my oven. Good lesson to pay attention to your instincts; I don't bake cakes often but as I was putting the too-full pan in the oven I *did* think to myself that it seemed awfully over-filled! (It was!)
Once I re-made this recipe, it turned out great - sponge isn't too dense, just the right amount of peanut butter flavor. BUT, the recipe as written requires TWO 8" round cake pans, not one. Learned this the hard way with filling up one tin with all the batter and watching it spill all over my oven. Good lesson to pay attention to your instincts; I don't bake cakes often but as I was putting the too-full pan in the oven I *did* think to myself that it seemed awfully over-filled! (It was!)
Can this be made as cupcakes? And frozen?
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