Peanut Butter Lemon Layer Cake #1

[cimorene]

Wax made this peanut butter layer cake, with the addition of a tablespoon of lemon zest and two tablespoons of lemon juice, and it's delicious!

It's got the lemon syrup and lemon cream cheese frosting from this recipe (just way less of the frosting), though, and while it is really good, it's not perfect: it should have more peanut butter flavor and less lemon. We may try a peanut butter frosting next.

The peanut butter cake recipe calls for garnish with peanut butter chips and drizzled peanut butter ganache made of peanut butter chips, but... we've never seen peanut butter chips for sale here in Finland. That doesn't seem to really be an ingredient worth hunting the world over for, but it may mean seeking an alternative recipe for peanut butter ganache. We don't really love traditional buttercream either though, so we might have to do some comparison shopping and not use the other frosting here either.



I'm pretty sure the lemon cake with lemon frosting would be really delicious without the peanut butter too.

Comments

[conuly]

we've never seen peanut butter chips for sale here in Finland. That doesn't seem to really be an ingredient worth hunting the world over for, but it may mean seeking an alternative recipe for peanut butter ganache.

Incorrect! Peanut butter chips are addictively delicious. My parents used to sometimes give us a little cup of peanut butter chips (or butterscotch chips, or chocolate chips, but I liked pb the most) as dessert.

[cimorene]

I mean, I've had them, I just don't think they're delicious enough or distinct enough from other peanut butter to be worth it. Importing rare stuff is likely a bigger pain in the ass (and more expensive) than whatever modifications we'd have to do to substitute - presumably some combination of peanut butter and sugar...

[james]

Thank you for sharing!