I just made Toba Garrett's Peanut Butter Cake from The Well-Decorated Cake book. I love peanut butter and this cake seemed like it would be a hit.
It was a disaster.
The cake had really good peanut flavor and smell, just like a peanut butter cookie. In fact, I could not help but smell it as it cooled, however, it was the driest cake I have ever made, ever. The saddest part was I used my jar of real Italian hazelnut/chocolate filling a friend brought back from Italy, just for me. I also made a delicious peanut butter/dark chocolate frosting to cover, yum. However, with the cake resembling the texture of the driest bread on this planet, it ruined the overall appeal.
I thought RLB's Velvet White Cake was the driest, but this takes the cake, excuse the pun. I bake most of my cakes at the 325-335 degree range so they end up being extra moist. It still did not help this cake. I would hate to think what it would have tasted like had I baked it at the required 350F. I also pulled the cake when there were crumbs on the toothpick but no moisture, like with all my cakes.
My conclusion is that the recipe is faulty, having not enough fat in the recipe, plus she uses a lot of sugar in all her cakes. Sugar is great for that perfect brown crust, but it produces a very sweet cake, as one can imagine.
So, does anyone have a moist, tender and deliciously flavored peanut butter cake recipe they would like to share?
i just made a peanut butter cake bout an hour ago... but i used a recipe i found on here.... i added a lil sourcream to mine coz i was afraid it would be dry.. seems to be ok so far... ill have to taste it soon to see how it taste 
ok i decided to cut into the cake... its awsome!! and moist
magentaa23, which recipe on here did you use? I see there are about 5 or 6 peanut butter cake recipes.
I got from the library today the best cake book ever entitled, Death by Chocolate Cakes by Marcel Desaulniers. There are some awesome chocolate cake and buttercream recipes in this book. The surprise find was his peanut butter and chocolate chunk-like cupcake recipe and it looks so moist in the picture and not at all like Toba's in texture. I may try converting this one to a cake recipe.
i used the very first one called peanut butter cake.. but i added about 1/4 cup sourcream just incase
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