Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake in a Mug

I saw this recipe on Pinterest and HAD to try it.  But we didn't have Nutella so I used creamy peanut butter instead, and added some semi sweet chocolate chips.

I'm not really a cake fan, so I wouldn't make this over and over.  But if you enjoy cake, this is a quick and easy way to fix your cake craving! 

Be sure to use a very large mug if you decide to only use one.  I filled one mug about 3/4 full of batter and it still over flowed. :)

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons self rising flour
4 tablespoons white granulated sugar
1 egg
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
3 tablespoons peanut butter
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons vegetable oil

3 tablespoons semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients in a small mixing bowl.  Coat either 1 large or 2 normal mugs with non stick cooking spray.  Pour batter into mug(s).  Microwave on high for 1 1/2 to 3 minutes, until baked through, and not runny.  Top with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Enjoy! 

Peanut butter coffee cake

Ingredients:

Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar,
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 Tablespoons butter, melted

Cake:
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup butter, or margarine
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour (I used whole wheat pastry flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 375.
In a small bowl mix topping ingredients until crumbly.  Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, cream peanut butter and margarine/butter.  Slowly beat in brown sugar.  Add eggs one at a time, beating until fluffy.  Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and chocolate chips.  Add alternately with milk to the creamed mixture, beating after each addition.  Spread batter in a greased 13 x 9 pan, top with crumb topping.  Bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until a toothpick come out clean.

Flourless peanut butter cookies

Flourless Peanut butter cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

(plus granulated sugar for rolling dough)

Mix first 6 ingredients with a mixer, on medium/high.  The dough should be sorta fluffy.  Roll into tablespoon sized balls (yes, it will be sticky, just try your best :)  Roll each ball in sugar.  Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes, until bottoms are lightly brown.

So I've made these before, but I couldn't remember what the recipe was exactly..I looked it up online, and found a bunch of recipes calling for baking soda, and bunch calling for baking powder, and a bunch more not asking for any leavening at all...hmm

So Emily and I did an experiment.  One batch with baking powder, one without.  On the pan, the cookies on the right have baking powder; in the other picture, the cookie on the bottom had baking powder.  Definitely go WITH baking powder, the cookies looked better, were softer, and just overall better.

Peanut Butter Scones

So I really wanted to make peanut butter scones.  There aren't very many recipes online for them, but I found one, and decided to give it a shot.  I kept the ingredients exactly the same, except I did not put a piece of chocolate bar on each scone, but changed a few of the steps.  =D



Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsalted butter, chilled
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup milk
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Step 2: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt. (I really did use a whisk, and it worked well.)
Step 3: With pastry blender or two knives, cut butter into flour mixture.
Step 4: In a small bowl, stir together the peanut butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract. (I used a whisk again for this step, it took some stirring but mixed together eventually)
Step 5: Add the peanut butter mixture to the flour mixture and stir to combine. (The dough took awhile to mix all together but eventually it came together, just keep mixing)
Step 6: Grease a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray
Step 7: Dump dough onto cookie sheet and pat into an aprox. 10 inch circle.
Step 8: Spray non-stick cooking spray onto a pizza cutter.  Cut dough into 8 wedges.
Step 9: Sprinkle with sugar. (I used granulated and large-sprinkle sized clear sugar)
Step 10: Decrease oven temperature 350 degrees F. Bake for 17-19 minutes, or until lightly browned. Transfer to cooling surface.

Makes 8 scones.

Peanut Butter Bread