Day One – Peanut Butter Cookie Dough and a Reason to Celebrate!
First up – the Celebration! I have completed my first MONTH blogging here! I’ve kept up Pint Sized Baker and Dieter’s Downfalls. Deadlines have come close, but I’ve kept up and have successfully maintained TWO Blogs! Hooray for me! To celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great bloggers to have my First Giveaway! See below for more AMAZING Details!
This week, we are going to make a Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake for the Chocolate Peanut Butter lover!!
I love cookie dough (even with eggs… I’m reckless like that).
This recipe is without eggs, so rest assured, it can be devoured safely! I’ve made this cookie dough before for Pint Sized Baker and made it for truffles, pops, and as an add-in for ice cream. It’s quite versatile.
This cake was rich and creamy and had a great blend of chocolate and peanut butter.
When Mr. Quart took his first bite, he announced he had a mouth-gasim! I’ll take that as a complete Success!!
More on the CAKE in the next post and then the Frosting and decorating on the final post.
Wondering how I got it in that perfect disk? I used a springform pan and lined the bottom and sides with parchment paper and did my best to get it flat and even. This worked like a charm to just place it between my cake layers. Try it with your buttercream as well. It was an easy way to get an amazing center!
Now, to the GIVEAWAY!!!
I’m teamed up with a bunch of great bloggers to co-host my FIRST Giveaway on Dieter’s Downfall and it’s a GREAT Giveaway! I could not get by in the kitchen without my KitchenAid Stand Mixer. I love it! And if you win, you’ll love it too! Good Luck!
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Total time:
Serves: 2 cups
- Recipe from Pint Sized Baker
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup peanut butter (chunky or smooth will both work, so pick your favorite kind)
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- Blend Butter and Peanut Butter in a mixing bowl. Add in the sugars and blend until smooth. Add in remaining ingredients.
- Line a 9 inch round cake pan with parchment paper (bottom and sides).
- Transfer the cookie dough into the pan and smooth. Tap the pan on the counter a few times to settle the dough.
- Place in the fridge overnight.
I love this, Karyn! It looks fantastic in the cake. I can only imagine how incredible it would be in ice cream!!
chocolate or vanilla ice cream with little pb cookie dough chunks, so good!!
Congrats to your 1 Month of managing 2 blogs!! That’s just crazy to me, but you’re doing AWESOME!
Thanks Holly. It is crazy, but so far so good!
I love that picture. It’s a whole wedge of cookie dough. I’ll take that with a fork please.
Yep! That is a two cup disk of cookie dough!
Congrats of your first month! I’m very excited to see the end result of this cake The entire blog is such a great concept, genius!
Thanks so much. I thought about just posting once a week of the final product, but I don’t bake that way, and I figured that most busy people don’t either. So, this is a great approach to having a wonderful dessert without killing yourself in the kitchen!
I agree completely!
Karyn, that chocolate and peanut butter cake looks absolutely divine!! Thanks for sharing and I definitely want to try this! Have a great week!
This looks AMAZING!!! Hard to go wrong with peanut butter
Ya can’t! Simple as that.
Yeah, slice me a wedge of that bad boy to celebrate! Or better yet, hand it to me and let me eat it in peace. In LOVE with that 2 cup circle of tastiness!
Be patient and wait until it’s sandwiched between cake! It’s much better.
OMG. NO. YES. WAIIIIT OMG mind = blown.
I will be trying this for sure!!
YUMMY!
can’t wait until i can make this
It was great! It can be made in a day if you have the time. Enjoy it!
Just printed the three recipes out, my kids and grandkids will love this….thanks for the slicing tip.
I hope everyone in your household enjoys it was much as we did!
Looks great! However, I didn’t own any springform pans, so I wonder if it’s easy to take out the cold dough out of a normal tin pan? Any advice?
Yes. You can use a cake pan. Just remember to line it to make it easier to remove.