Peanut Butter Cakes

Now I've done Peanut Butter Cakes two different ways; and I think the second way I did it was the best. I'll let you know what my tester thought - because I don't actually like peanut butter. I did it for a friend!

Make it ever so difficult knowing what it tasted like so I had to just guess!

The first way I did the cakes was to do a Peanut butter sponge and a milk chocolate peanut butter topping.

Looks awful....

This went along fine and dandy, but I found that if I really wanted a peanut butter kick (according to my tasters) then I needed to add more peanut butter. For this recipe I used smooth peanut butter.

When it came to the milk chocolate topping, I decided to add peanut butter to it - this wasnt in the recipe. The only reason why was the topping was meant to have Reeces peanut butter chips (just like milk chocolate chips but PB!)

Reeces being an American product, I hunted high and low in and out of all kinds of random stores but I couldn't find any, so I used PB to flavour the topping instead.

Little did I know that If I had only asked my friends Chris and Kelsey Nicholson (in Portland, US), they would of have quite willingly sent me some... of which they did... on mass.

Seeing as I don't like Peanut Butter this went towards two friends Christmas presents, the items I actually wanted is that huge bag in the bottom right corner of the photo.

I sent my friends Chris and Kelsey two tubs of Marmite in return, this was in October. Its February now and they still havent arrived. Who knows where they've got too! Bermuda Triangle perhaps?

1200g of marmite - yuck!

Anyways - back to the cakes!

As I didnt have the chips at the time of making the first lot of cakes; this is what they turned out like:

Not the most attractive looking cakes

The second lot of peanut butter cakes were done by having chocolate sponge (no PB at all) and with a peanut butter buttercream icing.

I found the recipe on the internet, had to convert it from cups to grams! That was new!

I chose to use crunchy peanut butter this time... and the first fatal mistake was using a nozzle that in the end the butter cream wouldn't come out because of the crunchy pieces and I hadn't realised I thought the butter cream was just too thick that it wasnt piping..... and then the plastic piping bag starting to piece with the crunchy pieces. EEEP!

So after a change of nozzle and the use of the reeces pieces that Chris/Kelsey sent me:

VOILA...