Flourless Peanut Butter Cake With Chocolate Buttercream
- 1 cup natural-style peanut butter
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 12 cup skim milk
- 14 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 34 teaspoon baking powder
- 12 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1 cup salted butter, softened
- 1 34 cups confectioners' sugar
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate or 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted
- 14 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350F Line two cake pans with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together peanut butter, sugar, milk, oil, egg yolks, vanilla, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until combined.
- Thoroughly clean and dry mixing beaters.
- In a small separate mixing bowl, whip egg whites to stiff peaks.
- Gently fold egg whites into rest of ingredients until well-incorporated.
- Divide batter evenly between cake pans.
- Bake for about 24 minutes.
- Remove cake from oven and let cool completely before frosting.
- To prepare buttercream frosting, beat butter until fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar and beat until creamy.
- Add chocolate and vanilla.
- Gently flip one cake over onto serving plate.
- Frost top of bottom layer.
- Gently flip out second layer over the first.
- Frost entire cake and decorate as desired.
naturalstyle peanut butter, brown sugar, milk, canola oil, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla, salt, eggs, butter, sugar, chocolate, vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/flourless-peanut-butter-cake-with-chocolate-buttercream-446643 (may not work)