Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cake Recipe

If you remember the peanut butter cake of your childhood, you will absolutely love this old fashioned peanut butter cake.

This vintage recipe is timeless and will always be beloved at whatever gathering you offer it at!

Creamy, moist and incredibly delicious! 

What’s Great About This Recipe

• As most vintage recipes go, this is a classic. Creamy, moist crumb and delicious flavor.
• It’s a very easy cake that looks much more elegant than it was to make!
• Budget friendly cake, inexpensive ingredients.
• It’s a great base cake to then add to and make your own.
• There is so much to love about this cake, you’ll just have to make it yourself!

What do you need for Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cake?

Easy ingredients, and you can make your own self rising flour and your own buttermilk.

For the Cake

• self rising flour
• baking soda
• granulated sugar
• butter
• peanut butter
• eggs
• buttermilk

Make your own self rising flour:

• You will need all purpose flour, baking powder and salt. To make 1 cup of self rising flour, use 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt. (combine thoroughly!)

Make your own buttermilk:

There are four tried and true ways to make buttermilk that are proven to work.

• Do you have lemons or lemon juice? To make 1 cup of buttermilk, use 1 Tablespoon lemon juice + enough milk to equal 1 cup.
• Do you have vinegar? To make 1 cup of buttermilk, use 1 tablespoon vinegar + enough milk to equal 1 cup.
• Do you have cream of tarter in your spice cabinet? To make 1 cup of buttermilk, use 1 3/4 teaspoon of cream of tarter + 1 cup of milk.
• Do you have plain yogurt in your refrigerator? To make 1 cup of buttermilk, substitute with 1 cup of plain yogurt. No milk needed.

For the Frosting

• powdered sugar
• peanut butter
• cream cheese
• milk

Step By Step Instructions

Place sugar, butter, peanut butter and eggs in a mixing bowl and mix up with an electric mixer until well combined and smooth.

It should look like this:

Mix self-rising flour with baking soda.

Add flour to wet mixture alternately with the buttermilk.

This is what it looks like all combined.

Bake in three layer cake pans at 350 for about 35 minutes. 

Allow to cool ten minutes in pan before turning out to cool completely.

For the Frosting:

Combine peanut butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar with two tablespoon of milk.

You may need to add an extra tablespoon or two of milk if the mixture is too thick.

Or, if the mixture becomes too runny for your tastes, add extra powdered sugar.

Beat with an electric Mixer until smooth and creamy. 

Once it’s ready to eat, simply grab a nice mug of coffee, cold glass of milk or hot cup of tea and enjoy a slice of this deliciously peanut buttery cake!

What Can Be Added to this Cake:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cake – Add a layer of jelly or fruit compote and make it a peanut butter and jelly cake.

Peanut Butter Cup – Add a layer of chocolate ganache or frosting, add chocolate chips to the cake mix, drizzle chocolate over the top. Crush up peanut butter cups and sprinkle across the top.

Nut Topping – From peanuts to pecans, or anything in between – crush up nuts and sprinkle across the top of the cake.

Elvis Presley – Take your peanut butter cake to the next level, or rather make it an ode to Elvis by mimicking his favorite sandwich flavors. Add mashed banana in between the layers, add sliced bananas to the top – and if you want to take it all the way, crumble bacon on top.

Are you ready to whip up your own Peanut Butter Cake?

Peanut Butter Cake Recipe

Nicole Cook

If you love peanut butter, you will absolutely adore this easy Peanut Butter Cake recipe. Creamy, moist and incredibly delicious! 

4.50 from 4 votes

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 14

Calories 751 kcal

Ingredients

  

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For the Cake:

• 2 ⅔ cups self rising flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• ½ cup butter or margarine
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups buttermilk

For the Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 ½ cups peanut butter
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 2 tablespoons milk

Instructions

 

• Place sugar, butter, peanut butter and eggs in a mixing bowl and mix up with an electric mixer until well combined and smooth.
• Mix self-rising flour with baking soda.
• Add flour to wet mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
• Bake in three layer cake pans at 350 for about 35 minutes.
• Allow to cool ten minutes in pan before turning out to cool completely.
• For the Frosting: Combine peanut butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar with two tablespoon of milk. You may need to add an extra tablespoon or two of milk if the mixture is too thick. Or, if the mixture becomes too runny for your tastes, add extra powdered sugar.
• Beat with an electric Mixer until smooth and creamy.

Nutrition

Calories: 751kcalCarbohydrates: 93gProtein: 16gFat: 38gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gMonounsaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 61mgSodium: 504mgPotassium: 366mgFiber: 3gSugar: 69gVitamin A: 515IUCalcium: 90mgIron: 1mg

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