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Triple Peanut butter cake recipe video

Published: March 1, 2018 | Updated: December 14, 2019 | By Ashlee

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This triple peanut butter cake features a soft sponge peanut butter cake recipe filled with an easy peanut butter mousse and then covered in a cheaters peanut butter swiss meringue buttercream and the decorated with a chocolate ganache drip and all the peanut butter candies and cookies I could find! 

triple peanut butter overload cake recipe

It’s Peanut butter lovers day! And boy do I love Peanut Butter.  Choosing to make a cake was an obvious choice.  The biggest question was – what filling and frosting??? Do I balance it with some chocolate? or Raspberry? or stick with peanut butter on top of peanut butter with more peanut butter…

Guess which one I picked… Peanut Butter cake, with Peanut butter mousse and Peanut butter swiss meringue…. then I topped it all off with a chocolate ganache drip and all the peanut butter candy and cookies I could find. YUM!!!!

I used 4 sizes of peanut butter cups, reese’s pieces, peanut butter M&M’s, Reeses sticks, nutter butters, peanut butter oreos and skippy PB bites.  The next big question is HOW to decorate… Swirls of frosting with pretty cookies between and candy on top of the swirls? Or candy/cookie explosion!!!

Clearly I went the explosion route. But can you blame me? if I had gone the prettier route I wouldn’t have been able to use all the types of candy/cookies I collected.

peanut butter overload cake covered in candy and cookies

So let’s talk about the filling.  There are lots of ways to make mousse.  I typically prefer to do the cooked egg custard mousse route.  But I didn’t like how the cooked peanut butter mousse tasted.  So instead I went with the cream cheese, whipped cream method which is basically a no bake peanut butter cheesecake, so YAY deliciousness. 

Also you’ll need to get an acetate cake collar for this cake – to set the mousse up between the cake layers without it making a HUGE mess.  Seriously it seems fancy but it’s super easy and by far the best way to do this so it’s totally worth it.

Kay – the frosting…. This isn’t a classic Swiss meringue – it’s the cheaters version – no cooked sugar – you use pasturized egg whites so they don’t need to be heated. It’s so so so SO much easier and the results are very similar to an authentic Swiss meringue buttercream.  It’s a little sweeter than the classic, and not QUITE as buttery – so for me it’s a great option!

Now I love the straight peanut butter version of this but man oh MAN once you add the cocoa it’s DIVINE.  I kinda wanted to do more of the chocolate than the three thin stripes – but I felt this looked the best… (I did keep all the extra frosting and made it all cocoa and I’ll be enjoying some extra frosting on my slices, on graham crackers, extra cookies, etc… until it’s gone. 

I also recommend practicing scraping the sides of your cake. You don’t want to go into the strips and scrap too much off, or scrape unevenly leaving your cake bottom heavy or worse top heavy! It’s okay to go slow the first time around, the last time around you want to try to do it all in one turn, no pauses or stops, for the smoothest finish.

triple peanut butter cake recipe and video

And now for the cake – this recipe is tweaked from my favorite vanilla cake recipe.  I actually tweak this cake all the time – my caramel cake, my graham cracker cake… all based off this one.  It’s a lighter spongier cake – so I don’t use this recipe for cake carving. 

I  also have a more dense peanut butter cake recipe that is better for carving but I felt this one needed to be lighter.  And it really is – like I said above the mini peanut butter cups you see here in the slice? MAJOR DRAMA – as I sliced the cake they’d get caught in the knife but since the mousse and cake were so soft it would just push through and my slices weren’t coming out very nicely. 

I can’t even tell you how many slices I had to cut off the cake to get a nice looking one.  NOT WORTH IT – just leave the candy for the outside and enjoy the cake and mousse inside.  Sometimes I hit that TOO over the top mark and have to pull back!

And that’s the loveliness of Peanut butter lovers day! What is YOUR favorite peanut butter recipe? What should I try for my next peanut butter recipe? I’m only mildly obsessed…  And of course part of celebrating national food holidays is sharing more amazing recipe!

The Celebrating food bloggers all have new recipes for you today – so click over and check them all out! I’m also sharing some of my favorites from my blog as well as featuring a few of my favorite foodies best peanut butter recipes.

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Tools I use in Making this triple peanut butter cake

  • Acetate cake collar  https://amzn.to/2ET0aHo
  • 7 inch round cake pans https://amzn.to/2EIwFYD
  • 7 inch parchment circles https://amzn.to/2CHaJKV
  • baking strips https://amzn.to/2CEuJO5
  • turntable https://amzn.to/1n2yst1
  • round tips https://amzn.to/2D3bWgl
  • angled spatula https://amzn.to/2D4iuv5
  • drip squeeze bottle https://amzn.to/2CFkr04
  • Long, Sharp, Strong serrated knife (I like the Cutco Santoku-Style 10″ Slicer) https://amzn.to/1TElX3O
  • Bosch Universal Mixer https://amzn.to/210Eyra

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triple peanut butter overload cake

Triple Peanut Butter Cake

This batter makes three 8 or 9 inch cake layers or four 7 inch layers - now I like my layers tall - so I use 3 inch tall cake pans. If you use 2 inch tall cake pans you'll have to use more layers, more like four 9 inch layers
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Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 16 servings
Calories: 1990kcal
Author: Ashlee Marie
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Ingredients

Peanut Butter Cake

  • 1 C granulated sugar
  • 1 C brown sugar
  • 3 1/2 C Cake Flour
  • 1 Tbsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 C butter softened
  • 4 lrg eggs room temperature
  • 2/3 C sour cream
  • 3/4 C peanut butter
  • 2 Tbsp vanilla
  • 1 C whole milk

Peanut Butter Mousse

  • 1 C heavy whipping cream
  • 2/3 C granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1 C peanut butter

Peanut Butter Cheating Swiss meringue Buttercream Frosting

  • 1/2 C pasteurized liquid egg whites
  • 3 1/2 C powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 2/3 C butter room temperature
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp vanilla
  • 2/3 C Peanut Butter
  • 1/4 C cocoa

Ganache Drip

  • 4 oz high quality chocolate don't use chocolate chips
  • 4 oz heavy whipping cream

Decorations

  • all the peanut butter and chocolate peanut butter cookies and candies you like
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Instructions

Peanut Butter Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 350
  • prepare your pans with non stick spray and parchment circles (I used 4 seven inch pans)
  • in mixer or large bowl mix together then sugars, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
  • add the softened butter and beat - it will be sandy
  • in a separate bowl mix the eggs, sour cream, vanilla and peanut butter
  • add the wet mixture to the dry and beat
  • while mixing on low add the milk
  • pour the batter into the prepared pans
  • bake for 25-30 mins - until it bounces back when pressed and is just starting to pull away from the sides
  • let cool before starting the mousse

Peanut Butter Mousse

  • Beat the cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form
  • in another bowl beat the cream cheese and peanut butter
  • add the whipped cream and mix until incorporated

Assembly

  • level the tops (and the bottoms for a nice looking slice of cake) of the cooled cakes
  • wrap some cake collar acetate evenly around the cake on a cake plate or cardboard circle
  • add 1/3rd of the mousse, add another layer of cake and repeat (if your acetate isn't tall enough you may need to add another round, I did)
  • refrigerate until the mousse is set, at least 4 hours

Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting

  • In a large mixer with whisks or large bowl with a hand mixer beat the egg whites, sugar and salt for 5 mins
  • while beating on medium add the butter 1-2 Tbsp at a time
  • once all the butter is mixed in add the vanilla and peanut butter and beat on medium high another 10 mins
  • take out 3/4th of the frosting and set aside - add 1/4 C cocoa to the remaining 1/4 of the frosting and beat until totally mixed in

Ganache

  • bring the cream to a boil and pour over the chocolate
  • let sit 5 mins then stir until smooth
  • let cool at room temperature while frosting the cake

Frosting

  • take the cake out of the fridge and unwrap the acetate
  • frost the top of the cake with the peanut butter frosting
  • then pipe around the outside of the cake alternating as much or little as you like with the chocolate peanut butter frosting
  • scrape around the cake smoothing the sides and creating the stripes
  • let the cake chill 10 mins
  • using a piping bag or squeeze bottle add the drips around the outside of the cake
  • then spread the remaining ganache on the top of the cake (without causing extra drips)
  • now decorate with all the peanut butter cookies and candies

Video

Notes

In the video I thought it would be fun to add mini peanut butter cups to the mousse layer in side the cake - BUT they didn't cut well and ended up ruining my cake slices so I advice NOT to do that

Nutrition

Calories: 1990kcal | Carbohydrates: 192g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 127g | Saturated Fat: 62g | Cholesterol: 242mg | Sodium: 1575mg | Potassium: 996mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 138g | Vitamin A: 2900IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 271mg | Iron: 3.4mg
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And that’s the loveliness of Peanut butter lovers day! What is YOUR favorite peanut butter recipe? What should I try for my next peanut butter recipe? I’m only mildly obsessed…  And of course part of celebrating national food holidays is sharing more amazing recipe! The Celebrating food bloggers all have new recipes for you today – so click over and check them all out! I’m also sharing some of my favorites from my blog as well as featuring a few of my favorite foodies best peanut butter recipes.

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  7. Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies – The Baker Upstairs
  8. Easy Peanut Butter Fudge – Savory Experiments
  9. Peanut Butter chocolate chip blondies – 365 Days of Slow Cooking + Pressure Cooking
  10. No Bake Peanut Butter Protein Balls – Heather Likes Food
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  8. Peanut butter chocolate brownies
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A few more of my favorite Peanut Butter recipes from other fabulous foodies!

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  2. peanut butter cup brownies – Chelsea’s Messy Apron
  3. Peanut Butter Chocolate Heaven – Recipe Critic
  4. Flourless Peanut Butter bread – Kirbie’s Cravings
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  1. Download Xender for Mac

    May 9, 2019 at 2:26 am

    its so amazing i would love to try that at home

    Reply
  2. Donna

    May 20, 2019 at 4:31 pm

    You had me with the peanut butter cups on top. I think l’ll

    make this cake for my birthday next month.

    Reply
  3. Lyanna

    September 4, 2019 at 12:08 am

    Hey Ashlee!I just wanted to know how many cups one recipe makes and if can I use the traditional method as I don’t really like my cakes dense. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      February 2, 2020 at 11:10 pm

      if you don’t want a dense cake this will be just fine, it’s not a dense cake, it’s traditional. My dense cake is a different recipe.

  4. Lyanna

    September 4, 2019 at 12:15 am

    Also, can I use natural peanut butter? My mum likes to make homemade peanut butter and would probably be less than pleased if I don’t use hers…

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      February 2, 2020 at 11:08 pm

      I don’t recommend natural peanut butter for this – it is much runnier and would effect everything

  5. Laura

    March 25, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    You mention granulated sugar in the mousse. Mine didn’t form peaks. When I used powdered sugar like other recipes it worked. Maybe it’s supposed to say powdered sugar?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 18, 2020 at 6:21 pm

      I’ve always used granulated sugar, if you want to use powdered sugar make sure to double the amt as 1/2 C granulated sugar is equal to 1 C powdered sugar.

  6. Emily

    May 9, 2020 at 7:08 pm

    Hi Ashlee!! Quick Q – can I make the peanut butter mousse ahead of time and refrigerate until the next day?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 27, 2021 at 8:20 am

      Yes you can! That is a great way to save time, just make sure you keep it sealed in an airtight container.

  7. Lola

    June 2, 2020 at 5:35 am

    Hi how do I convert the cups to grams because when I tried it online it’s difference measures on each website so how should I measure each cup as grams

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 27, 2021 at 8:23 am

      At the bottom of my recipe I have a metric converter, if you hit the word ‘metric’ it will automatically adjust all of the ingredients.

  8. GaGaL78

    October 19, 2020 at 2:00 pm

    This cake is soooo pretty!!!! My oldest son is getting married this June. Is this a cake that can be made ahead of time and frozen?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 27, 2021 at 8:19 am

      I always recommend freezing the layers before you decorate them, I have a post about freezing cakes here, https://ashleemarie.com/freezing-cakes-moist/.

  9. Teri

    February 14, 2021 at 6:17 am

    5 stars
    We’ve done everything but eat this cake so far. That happens today for my son’s birthday. He requested a peanut butter cake and I found your recipe. I got sucked in when I saw how beautiful the cake was. I made mine 3 layers instead of 4 because my Tupperware cake carrier only fit a 3 layer cake. It came out as beautiful as yours and I thank you for the wonderful recipe. Looking forward to tasting this.

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 27, 2021 at 8:18 am

      I am so glad it worked for you!! I hope it tasted as delicious as it looked:)

  10. Andrew @ YouNetworth

    February 15, 2021 at 9:42 am

    5 stars
    Looks really good. I’d try making it but some of the ingredients (cocoa) aren’t available where I live. I’ll probably have to buy on Amazon.

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 27, 2021 at 8:17 am

      Yes I always recommend amazon for things like that! I hope it works well for you!

  11. Lee

    April 17, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    How do you attach the goodies on the side of the cake without them falling off?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      April 26, 2021 at 8:16 pm

      You can attach them with frosting, some of the smaller pieces are just stuck into the cake but the bigger ones are cut and put on with frosting, start at the bottom and work your way up to the top

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