Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe

Peanut Butter Coffee Cake is a heavenly mixture of chocolate, peanut butter, and Nutella all under a crunchy layer of a peanut streusel and dark chocolate drizzle. 

Do you ever see a recipe that you just can’t get out of your mind? Well, this Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe was that recipe for me.

I picked up a copy of a magazine called “Southern Cast Iron” Winter 2017 edition. I’ve never seen this magazine before but the recipes looked amazing including the one for Peanut Butter Coffee Cake. I just couldn’t wait to try my hand at it.

From the title and the photograph, I knew I was going to be using chocolate and peanut butter. What I didn’t realize is that it also has a layer of Nutella. The streusel on this baby makes it one delicious peanut butter crumb cake.

The only problem I have with this whole darned thing is that I didn’t come up with it first!

When I was young(er) my mother made a delicious coffee cake and we ate it for breakfast!

I don’t know that I would feed this Peanut Butter Coffee Cake to my children for breakfast because they’d be bouncing off the walls once they got to school. I would surely eat it any time of day, however.

What is a coffee cake?

Coffee cake is cake flavored with or intended to be eaten with coffee.

It’s delicious any time but I tend to think of it as a legal way to eat cake for breakfast! The American version is a variety of a crumb cake like this Peanut Butter Coffee Cake recipe.

Tips for the Perfect Chocolate Peanut Butter Coffee Cake

• If you don’t care for Nutella (someone actually said this!) you could substitute it for any creamy spread. I would definitely use chocolate or chocolate peanut butter spread.
• I used a 10-inch cast-iron skillet instead of the 3 6-inch cast-iron skillets which is what the recipe called for. As a result, I had to bake mine 20 minutes longer until it tested done.

Chocolate, peanut butter, Nutella, streusel…what’s not to love? I need to get me some little skillets so I don’t have to share the next time I make it.

Well, maybe I will share it. My eyes are always bigger than my tummy but that doesn’t keep me from trying!

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Coffee Cake recipe:

• Flour – All-purpose flour or unbleached all-purpose flour
• Sugar – both white and brown sugar. My favorite brown sugar is dark but either is fine.
• Peanut Butter – I used creamy but crunchy would be delicious too.
• Dry Roasted Peanuts – Salted is what I chose. You could use lightly salted or nonsalted.
• Butter – I used unsalted. Since the peanuts and peanut butter contain salt I didn’t feel additional salt was needed in this recipe.
• Sour Cream – Gives this recipe a creamy consistency. You could use lite but I wouldn’t use non-fat.
• Milk – The recipe calls for whole milk and that’s what I used. I believe 2% would work as well.
• Nutella – This creamy hazelnut spread is amazing in this recipe but you could substitute it for another chocolate or peanut butter spread.
• Vanilla – I only use a pure vanilla extract.
• Baking Powder – Leavening agent for the cake is necessary.
• Eggs – I use large for all my recipes.
• Salt – leave it out if you use salted butter.
• Dark Chocolate – I use at least a 60% Cocoa

What you may need to make this Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe:

• Cast Iron Skillet – I use cast-iron skillets whenever I can. There isn’t anything like them when it comes to browning food. They last forever, and they’re our favorite pan for camping too.

If you liked this recipe, I think you’ll enjoy these too.

• Chocolate Coffee Cake with Sour Cream
• Orange Streusel Coffee Cake
• Basic Muffin recipe
• Cherry Bread
• Rhubarb Oatmeal Muffins

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Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe

Author: Hostess At Heart

Peanut Butter Coffee Cake is a heavenly mixture of chocolate, peanut butter, and Nutella all under a crunchy layer of streusel topping.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 50 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword: Coffee Cake, Peanut Butter

Servings: 10

Ingredients

  

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Topping

• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup brown sugar packed
• 1 tbsp peanut butter I used creamy
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter softened to room temperature
• 1/2 cup roasted salted peanuts, coarsely chopped

Cake

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup white granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup Nutella

Garnish

• Melted dark chocolate

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 3-6″ cast iron skillets or a 10″ skillet with non-stick cooking spray.

Topping

• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and brown sugar. Using a mixer on medium speed, beat butter and peanut butter until crumbly. Stir in the peanuts and set aside.

Cake

• In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter, peanut butter and sugar on medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream and vanilla.
• In a medium bowl whisk flour, salt, and baking powder together. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with milk, starting and ending with the flour mixture.
• Pour half of the batter in the skillet. Spoon Nutella over batter. Top with remaining batter. Sprinkle with topping.
• Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 23-25 minutes for 6″ skillets or approximately 40 minutes for a 10-inch skillet. Loosely cover with foil to prevent excess browning if necessary.
• Garnish with melted chocolate.

Notes

Recipe published in Southern Cast Iron” Winter 2017 edition.

Nutrition

Calories: 547kcalCarbohydrates: 48gProtein: 29gFat: 25gSaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 136mgSodium: 212mgPotassium: 617mgFiber: 1gSugar: 38gVitamin A: 460IUCalcium: 84mgIron: 2.3mg

Nutritional Disclaimer

This recipe was calculated using the exact brands and measurements I used to make this recipe. If you are following a strict diet please note changing anything will cause the nutritional info to change. My calculations are intended as a guide only.

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Before you leave, here are some more peanut butter and Nutella recipes!

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• Double Chocolate Nutella Sandwich Cookies
• Stuffed French Toast with Strawberry and Nutella
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
• Nutella Salted Cheesecake Shooters