Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Name: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Yield: Gives 8–12 slices
Ingredients: 125 g caster sugar; 100 g soft dark brown sugar; 50 g cocoa; 4 x 15 ml tablespoons (60 ml) double cream; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 4 x 15 ml tablespoons (30 g) chopped dry roasted peanuts; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 200 g smooth peanut butter (see recipe intro); 2 large eggs, at room temperature; 225 g plain flour; ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 150 g soft unsalted butter; 300 g icing sugar; 200 g unsalted butter, plus more for greasing; 250 ml hot water from a just-boiled kettle

Preparation info

Gives
8–12 slices

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cook, Eat, Repeat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 2020

About

Much as I love baking, pudding is just not a feature of everyday dinner in my house. I certainly make one if I have people over, but it’s not a habit I’ve ever got into for family supper. Really the only time dinner ends with dessert in my house is on birthdays or other family celebrations. Over the years, I’ve made many different cakes for my children’s birthdays, but for some time now this has been the chosen one, the cake of cakes, elected to grace many special occasions, and with good r

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