MEDITERRANEAN BITES: Peanut Cake With Vanilla

Peanut Cake With Vanilla

I simply adore desserts that contain peanut taste. Like peanut butter cookies, or cakes, but in this cake recipe I will use grinded and baked peanuts. They are great and delicious ingredients for cakes. Especially if the peanuts are baked for about 15 min in the oven, or in a pan on low heat, and then grinded. It gives the cake great, tasty flavor. Also the peanuts should be unsalted. I made this cake for my last birthday and it was a crowd pleaser. A bonus point for this recipe is that there’s no baking for cake batter and filling. Indulge yourself with this lovely peanut cake.

Ingredients For Cake Batter:

· 5 vanilla instant pudding mix powder 200g /1 cup/

· Milk 1 ½ liter /6.3 cups/

· 10 tablespoons white sugar

· Butter, softened 450g /2 cups/

First Cake Filling:

· Ground biscuit 300g /10.5 oz/

· Grated chocolate 50g /1.7 oz/

· Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

Second Cake Filling:

· Coconut powder 300g /10.5 oz/

· Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

Third Cake Filling:

· Unsalted peanuts 300g /10.5 oz/

· Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

· Cold heavy whipped cream 250ml /1 cup/

Directions:

1. Cake batter is not baked. In deep dish cook together milk, all vanilla instant powder and add 10 tbsp of sugar. Cook until milk boils; stir constantly until the mass becomes smooth and compact.

2. When vanilla pudding is cooled, add softened butter. Mix the mass well using electric mixer. Divide into 3 separate deep bowls. We will mix vanilla pudding with 3 different cakes filling and create 3 layers.

3. In a first vanilla pudding bowl add grounded biscuit, grated chocolate and sugar powder. Mix everything good with electric mixer, and make a first bottom layer. Form with your hands, or spoon, layer 1,5 cm high.

4. In the second bowl add coconut powder and sugar powder. Mix all and form the second layer on top of the first one. Form with your hands 1,5 cm high layer.

5. For the last layer bake the peanuts in the oven. Bake only for 15 min until they get golden, brown color. Or if you wish bake them in a pan on low heat. Than take them out and leave to cool. Grind baked peanuts.

6. In a third bowl add grinded peanuts and sugar powder. Mix it well and form last cake layer on top.

7. For frosting mix in a bowl cold heavy cream until it gets tick. Spread it and decorate on top of a cake.

Calories: 610

Preparation time: 1 hour | Cook time: 15 min | Serves: 24

Did You Know? That…in the Middle Ages sugar was extremely valuable and was worth 9 times more than milk