The classic combination of peanut butter and chocolate gets a fun update in this delicious Peanut Butter Coffee Cake. Layers of peanut butter cake with creamy Nutella sandwiched in between, all topped with a crunchy peanut streusel topping and a drizzle of dark chocolate. This heavenly coffee cake will be the highlight of your day.
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Freaky Friday Blog Hop
I’m very excited to be participating in this Cookie Exchange 2019 edition of Freaky Friday with a wonderful recipe for Peanut Butter Coffee Cake from Hostess at Heart!
What’s Freaky Friday, you ask? Michaela at An Affair from the Heart came up with the idea for this old-fashioned blog hop a few years ago, and I’ve been participating for many of those years!
In a nutshell Freaky Friday is … I’ve made and shared a recipe from Julie at Hostess at Heart, and she’s made a recipe from someone (a secret that I don’t know who it is yet), and she’s made a recipe from someone, and if you clicked through all the way around all the blogs participating, you would get back to my blog. Thus, a blog hop!
So, if you would be so kind as to hop around and take a look at everyone participating, I promise it’ll be fun, and you’ll get lots of new recipe ideas!
Hostess at Heart
I’ve known Julie at Hostess at Heart for many years. Her baking skills are superb! When I got assigned to bake from her blog, I knew I’d have no problem finding delicious recipes.
Of course, there were so many to choose from!
Besides this coffee cake that we choose, we debated on making her Spiced Coffee Cookies with Caramel-Vanilla Glaze which not only sound amazing, they are so cute!
And since my family loves bread, I’ll have to try her recipe for sourdough bread or the beautiful Honey-Oat Pain de Mie Sandwich Bread.
The awesome recipes in the 2019 Freaky Friday Holiday Cookie Exchange:
- An Affair from the Heart – Funfetti Sugar Cookies
- Bowl Me Over – Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons
- Hostess at Heart –Pan Banging Homemade Sugar Cookie Recipe
- House of Nash Eats – Lime Meltaways
- Life Currents – Peanut Butter Coffee Cake
- Lisa’s Dinnertime Dish – Chocolate Cashew Candies
- Or Whatever You Do – Caramel Pecan Bites
- Take Two Tapas – Chocolate Fudge with Almonds and Coconut
- The Fresh Cooky – Oatmeal Rolled Sugar Cookies
- The Speckled Palate – Shortbread Brown Butter Cookies
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Blackened Shrimp Pasta
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Chocolate Marshmallow Moonpies are soft rich chocolate cookies surround sweet marshmallow fluff, and then you can drizzle this amazing mocha glaze over the whole thing. Swoon!
French Onion Tart
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It’s a fancy French dish that you can easily make in your own kitchen,
no matter where you live.
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delicious. It makes a great dinner, and a wonderful lunch for a brown
bag. It’s also a great recipe for a potluck; anything that’s already
made, delicious, and can be served cold is perfect for a potluck or
family holiday gathering in my book
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full of flavor and really impressive, but super easy to make. Shhh,
don’t tell anyone how easy it is; all they’ll know is how delicious it
is!
Mexican Cheese Ball with Spicy Tortilla Chips
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delicious! And no high fructose corn syrup, no weird unpronounceable
ingredients.
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Peanut Butter Coffee Cake Recipe
Peanut Butter Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Streusel Topping
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup roasted salted peanuts coarsely chopped
Cake
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 &½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup whole milk
- ¾ cup Nutella
Garnish
- Melted dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° Spray 3 smaller 6-inch cast iron skillets, or a 10-inch cast iron skillet with non-stick cooking spray.
Prepare Topping:
- Using a stand mixer or a hand held mixer and a medium bowl, mix the 2 tablespoons softened butter and 1 tablespoon peanut butter on medium speed until combined. Mix in flour and brown sugar, and mix until crumbly. Stir in the peanuts and set aside.
Prepare Cake:
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer or using a hand mixer and a large bowl, beat ½ cup butter, ½ cup 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, baking powder, and salt together. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with milk, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Scrape the sides of the bowl down occasionally as you mix the ingredients in.
- Pour half of the batter in the skillet, and spread with an offset spatula. Spoon Nutella over the top of the batter, and spread with an offset spatula. Top with remaining batter, smoothing the top with the spatula. Sprinkle the topping over the batter.
- Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 23-25 minutes for the 6-inch skillets or approximately 40 minutes for the 10-inch skillet. Loosely cover with foil to prevent excess browning if necessary.
Garnish with melted chocolate.
Michaela Kenkel says
My son-in-law to be would FLIP over this coffee cake! Peanut butter and chocolate are his FAVORITE! I think I will be making this for Christmas morning as a surprise for him, and a treat for all of us! Thanks for participating in our group, Debi! I love having you here. Merry Christmas to you and Dan!
Lisa Hitzeman says
My family will go crazy for this coffee cake! We all love the combo of chocolate and peanut butter. It’s going to be perfect for our Christmas morning brunch!
Deb Clark says
My goodness, this looks amazing! The streusel is spectacular and that tender cake? Mouthwatering! I know this will be a huge hit and devoured in no time. On the “must make” list!
Kathleen Pope says
I cannot wait to make this coffee cake, like Reese’s and Nutella bumped into each other for a cup of coffee! Yes please!!!
Julie Menghini says
You picked one of my favorite recipes and this treat came out beautifully!
Jennifer Ann Stewart says
I miss the days when people brought over coffee cakes and just hung out for coffee and a piece with some great conversation. I know that making this will bring people back together for some much needed social face time instead of all the rushing around we do now.
Erin Parker says
I am OBSESSING over this coffee cake! Seriously. I love all things peanut butter, and you went and upped it a notch with the addition of Nutella. This won’t last long for us during the holidays, that’s for sure.
Nicole Johnson says
This cake looks like it is right up my alley. Great post!
Nikki says
My friends loved this when we met for coffee this month! Delicious!