Peanut Butter Cake

Sounds good. I'd love a really good PB cake.

This is really a good cake. You should try it. It's so simple to make and lasts a long time. I like it because it's a cross between a coffee cake and a cake. It doesn't have a heavy frosting. I always made it right before the kids came home from school and they ate it with milk but it would make a great morning coffee brunch cake as well.

Just made this recipe and it is absolutely wonderful. All the ingredients are what you normally have in your cabinets. My kids hate frosting, so the crumbs fit with my family just fine. Thanks for the recipe...I saved it to make it again.

I know. Isn't this the best? It isn't like other Peanut butter cakes and it's great with milk or coffee. It's an old recipe. My Mom used to make it and now I make it. I don't even know where it came from.

I didn't mean I don't know where it came from. My hand accidentally hit return too soon and the last post went up before I was done typing. I found it this time in an old Better Homes and Garden Book but my Mom used to make it years ago when I was young so I don't know where it originally came from because it's very old and I have been making it for years as well. She had misplaced the recipe and I found it again in that book. I hope that made sense. I posted that before I meant to as my hand hit the return button.

Perhaps I did something wrong baking them as cupcakes, but these had little to no taste. Except for the crumbled topping, the cake was very bland. Using only the part of the cupcake with no topping, my husband and the other tasters didn't even know the cake was supposed to be peanut butter. I made several subsequent test batches making some adjustments, such as using more peanut butter or a bit of oil or even using half cake flour & half A-P flour; some with and some without chocolate chips. In every case, the texture was dry and had very little taste and not too great an aftertaste. Even the fragrance of the product wasn't aromatic. All my ingredients were fresh and of very good quality. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm simply disappointed in the recipe - but grateful to the poster *blush*. I'm so thankful for all she shares.

This is the first Just A Pinch recipe that was not a big success; I couldn't recommend it. Please, cooks - if you have any suggestions (barring ones that might entail me jumping in a lake LOL), please share. I'd love to figure out what I can do differently to obtain your pleasing results. Thanks in advance, you wonderful people!

I would not bake them as cupcakes. They are not supposed to be cupcakes.

Or perhaps you just didn't like it. I have never had anyone not like it. Even Candy loved it. It is meant to be eaten as a coffee cake not as a cake cake. It is a drier sort of cake if you will so if you made it as a cupcake, you really screwed up.

I might also add thinking about it again.... since it is supposed to be a coffee cake... making it as a cupcake would really make it on the drier side. I'm very sorry you didn't like it. It has been a staple in our home for years with all of my kids eating it after school with milk. It's the perfect snack but I don't think I would ever try it as a cupcake. It would ruin it.

So I wanted to make sure I had the ingredients right and I pulled up Better Homes and Gardens site and was going to google to see if they had the cake and they actually have pulled this cake up to the present again as one of their front runner cakes and the ingredients are right so it is accurate. I think it once again that you baked it as cupcakes.

I made your cake today its very good .I'am sure my husband will love it i made it this morning. I just had to try it . I dont like icing that well so it maks it even better.I put 3 eggs in it and a 1 tsp of pure vanilla. Thank you for the recipe.