FAQ #1: What's My Favorite?
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FAQ #1: The question I’m asked in about 98.3% of my conversations is “What’s your favorite thing to make?”
That’s a tough question. Every order is unique and special and delicate and charismatic etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. How I respond to this question is by answering with my favorite thing to eat.
Now, I don’t know if this is the answer people are looking for, but it’s an absolute no-brainer for me. In fact, it’s so obvious, I’m just going to let you look at this picture before diving into the answer.
Okay but like seriously, as long as this Peanut Butter Cup cake exists, I have literally zero other cares.
I consider this my signature cake. I started making it when I was about 13, and have only improved since (thankfully). It’s the cake I made on our local TV segment when I was 15, and it’s the cake I featured in my big-girl marketing campaign, Stay Celebrating, as a 22-year-old. It’s tried-and-true throughout the years, and I plan on keeping it on my menu forever, or else I think there would be riots in the streets from my loyal peanut butter cup customers!
This cake is just so good.
It’s so good that I’m delighted whenever a customer orders any variation of a peanut butter & chocolate dessert because (cue the embarrassment) that means I get to eat whatever is left over.
I have systems for everything I do. The clean-up system for this cake is very strategic and not to be messed with. I get the cake or cupcakes all done, making certain everything is accounted for and won’t need any more icing or ganache, and then get all the boring dishes washed and tools put away. Then…then the fun part.
I save the leftover piping bag with a few tablespoons of peanut butter buttercream left in the tip along with the almost scraped-down bowl of chocolate ganache until the very end of my cleaning. Then I proceed to stand at my sink, take the spoon I use for the ganache, and pipe the last ounce of frosting onto that chocolate covered goodness and literally eat it like I’ve never tasted anything good in my entire life.
Oh. My. Gosh. I would be lying if I said that hadn’t served as my dinner a time or two (college student budgets, am I right?). It’s also been nearly every birthday cake for my family because they love it equally—if not more than—I do. Customers order groom’s cakes, wedding cakes, surprise cupcakes, baby shower cakes, and basically every other kind of cake you can imagine in this flavor.
Let’s break it down, shall we?
In its most basic form, this is a chocolate cake, filled and frosted with peanut butter buttercream, dripped with Chocolate ganache, and topped with chopped peanut butter cups.
But that description doesn’t do nearly enough justice to convey HOW FREAKING DELICIOUS this peanut butter/chocolate cake is. So here’s my ultra descriptive-marketing guru-food show host description for you (and I’m kicking myself that I don’t have a picture of the inside of this cake! We must eat it too fast for that to happen):
Four layers of the most decadent and satisfying fudgy chocolate cake you’ve ever had are filled with a simultaneously airy and rich peanut butter-y buttercream that you’ll wish you could substitute for Jif on your sandwiches every day. The liberal layer of peanut butter frosting around the outside of the cake ensures every bite is saturated with the perfect ratio of peanut butter and chocolate. But, wait! Those bites wouldn’t be complete without themselves being covered in a thick, shiny chocolate ganache coating that serves as the base for swirls of more buttercream to hold chunky pieces of chopped peanut butter cups.
This is the kind of cake that leaves you salvaging every last crumb off of your plastic party plate. It will have you standing in the refrigerator light well past midnight, or maybe even for breakfast at 8am, with only a fork in hand as you go for one more bite, trying to be discreet so no one else in the house will notice. This cake is seriously as good as it sounds, guaranteed.
Don’t overlook the cupcake version, either. These babies are just as good as the real thing, especially if you make a cupcake sandwich out of them (more on that later!).
Now that I’ve successfully made you crave this Peanut Butter Cup Cake, and have most likely made you mad at me for sharing these mouthwatering pictures and ultra-visual descriptions with no samples, I think it’s time for me to sign off.
If you would like to place an order for my signature cake, please do! Because that means I get the leftovers. Well, and you get this cake. Which makes this a win/win! Visit the Contact tab up top to submit a form, and you’ll have your cake in no time!
Cheers!
jorie
