Chocolate Peanut Butter Raspberry Bundt Cake

Doesn’t it just look and sound magnificent? Chocolate and peanut butter…married together…in a Bundt! Then, the idea of peanut butter and raspberries – raspberry preserves – like your favorite sammy…and it’s all wrapped into one!

Dark chocolate cake, with a thin layer of peanut butter frosting inside, topped with another layer of sweet raspberry preserves – the sound, the sight, and the imagination can do wonders.

And guess what? It tastes just as glorious as it sounds!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Raspberry Bundt Cake

 

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. sea salt
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup Raspberry Preserves

 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Prepare a Bundt cake pan (or little minis) with oil and then dust with flour.

Add the flour sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the large bowl of a stand mixer and beat on low speed until combined. (A hand mixer is totally fine too).

In a second bowl combine the milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla with a whisk.

Add the wet ingredients to the stand mixer on low and beat until well combined.

 

Pour half the batter into the cake pan(s), filling up about 1/3 of the way.

In another bowl, beat together the cream cheese, peanut butter, and powdered sugar until smooth.

Slather a thin layer of the peanut butter frosting over the partially filled chocolate layer(s) in the Bundt pan(s).

Next, spread a layer of the Raspberry Preserves over the peanut butter layer.

Finally, top with the remaining chocolate cake batter, being sure not to overfill.

Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

 

Allow the cake to cool completely for 20 minutes before inverting.

Once completely cool, slice for a delicious surprise.

 

And guess what else?

Only ONE of my mini Bundt cakes made it out of the pan intact! 🙂
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