Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Name: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson
Ingredients: 200 grams unsalted butter plus more for greasing; 50 grams cocoa; 100 grams soft dark brown sugar; 125 grams caster sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 225 grams plain flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 2 large eggs at room temperature; 300 grams icing sugar; 150 grams soft unsalted butter; 200 grams smooth peanut butter (the normal commercial, mass-produced peanut butter - not a health-store variety); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt; 4 x 15ml tablespoons double cream; 4 x 15ml tablespoons chopped dry roasted peanuts

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The cake is dark, damp and divinely chocolatey - an easy, melt-everything-in-the-pan - but it's the icing that truly makes it “the cake of dreams’.

Keywords

Birthdays
Comfort
Fun
Indulgent
Sociable
Sweet
Chocolate

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Ingredients

200 grams unsalted butter plus more for greasing
50 grams cocoa
100 grams soft dark brown sugar
125 grams caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
225 grams plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 large eggs at room temperature
300 grams icing sugar
150 grams soft unsalted butter
200 grams smooth peanut butter (the normal commercial, mass-produced peanut butter - not a health-store variety)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
4 x 15ml tablespoons double cream
4 x 15ml tablespoons chopped dry roasted peanuts