Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe

Name: Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 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); 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; Melted dark chocolate

October 6, 2019 Updated: May 11, 2020 By Julie Menghini 49 Comments

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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.

Top angle view of a peanut butter coffee cake in a cast-iron skillet drizzeled with Nutella and sitting on a blue napkin with an antique egg beater behind it

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!

A piece of peanut butter coffee cake shows a nutella layer with a crumb topping drizzled with chocolate sitting on a wooden butter paddle

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:

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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.

We love cast iron skillet recipes. Our Skillet Apple Pie and Apple Rhubarb Skillet pies have been very popular.

A pan of Peanut Butter Coffee Cake with a crumb topping & chocolate drizzle sitting on a wood board with a blue napkin tied around the handle. The title \"Peanut Butter Coffee Cake\" runs across the top.

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