If you love peanut butter, cheesecake and moist chocolate cake, all your dreams have just come true.
The filling is gorgeously creamy.
The chocolate cake is moist and beautifully chocolatey, and is super easy to make because its aquick bread.
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All I wanted was a moist chocolate loaf with a creamy peanut butter filling baked inside.
A quick Google to find a recipe, and I was pretty surprised that no such thing existed.
Twelve attempts later, I understood why.
I had some seriously impressive fails.
The one that crumbled when I cut into it.
Literally disintegrated, like sand.
The one that was so dense and hard it was like a brick.
I needed a saw to hack it into slices.
The one(s) that collapsed.
Then there were all the ones in between.
The one where the peanut butter filling disappeared.
The one where the peanut butter filling ended up cake like.
Heres a look at some of the fails I had.
The added complication was that I was determined to make the chocolate cake aquick bread.
So true to its name, I wanted the cake to be fuss free specially, no creaming butter.
But I just wanted a straight chocolate cake.
Or they were ok on the day I made them, but really dry the next day.
Making a typical chocolate cake batter thicker just resulted in a dry cake.
I found that yoghurt was the key to a moist cake with a thicker batter.
As for the peanut butter filling, that too caught me by surprise!
Ive seen so many slices and cookies around where the filling is just peanut butter + confectionary sugar.
But that didnt work for this cake because it is baked for so much longer.
I found that the filling was ok on the day, but overnight it turned into a crystallised fudge.
Also the filling swirls all over the place when the cake is baking.
Finally, I figured out a simple solution: REFRIGERATE the filling.
As you’re able to see in the step photos below, the cake batter is quite thick.
But its soft and silky, not dense like (some) muffin batters.
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Bake it for 70 minutes, and this is what you end up with.
Creamy Peanut Butter Cheesecake filling.
This cake is still moist the day after and day after.
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Both the filling and the chocolate cake.
Plus it freezes well.
People talk about food so good, it makes you do a happy dance.
This is such food.
It is just so, so, SO GOOD!!!
LIFE OF DOZER
I believe this is called Virtual Drooling.
