Gianormous Peanut Butter Cake

If you are in need of a gianormous tasty cake that will feed a crowd, this is definitely a cake to consider. Especially for peanut butter people. I mean people who like peanut butter, not people made of peanut butter, that would be cannibalism!

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup cornstarch
• 1 tsp fine sea salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk

Frosting (optional)

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 TBSP milk
• 3 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Cake

1. Preheat oven to 325°. Spray a 10-in. fluted tube pan with nonstick spray and set aside.
2. Sift or whisk together the flour, cornstarch, salt, baking powder and set aside.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, peanut butter and sugars until well mixed and light, 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla with the last egg.
5. Add the dry mixture alternately with the milk. Start and end with the dry, and making sure each addition is just mixed in.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and run a knife through (don’t touch the sides or the bottom of the pan) to make sure there are no large pockets of air.
7. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
8. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack until completely cooled.
9. Dust with powdered sugar, or use the frosting below.

Frosting

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the butter, peanut butter, and milk until well mixed.
2. Add the powdered sugar and whip until smooth.

Makes 1 Gianormous Cake! (About 24 servings)

Notes

I tried to carefully make a trench in the bottom of the cake and fill it with the frosting and add back some of the cake I dugout. It wasn’t a big success. It wasn’t horrible, no one complained, but I wouldn’t do it again. I’d either frost the whole outside or just dust it lightly with powdered sugar and skip the frosting altogether.