Is this even possible? Or is the peanut butter too oily? My family no longer cares for powdered sugar icing, which is fine,but I really want to make hubby his chocolate cake with peanut butter icing cake for his b-day this year.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Kathi
Hello,
instead of using peanut butter, why don't you go one better and add the actual peanuts? You can completely grind them down (like when making homemade peanut butter ) or you can leave them a bit crunchy. I bet that is going to taste a whole lot better than just adding something out of a jar in this case. You can also add a bit of butter (or the spread of your choice ) to make it more buttery, if you are not happy with just the peanuts.
I am British, but I've been living in Germany for the last 20 years or so and they are very big on using the "original " ingredients - meaning " you want the peanut butter taste, use peanuts! or, you want the marzipan taste, use almonds!" And there never used to be anything other than scratch baking done over here, but in the last year or 2, there had been a slight interest in packet mixes, not much, but a little. I know that is a whole different ball game, I was just trying to explain the mentality over here.
Have fun experimenting with flavours and I hope it turns out how you would like it to.
Marina x
The recipe for SMBC that I use is: 300 grams granulated sugar,180 grams liquid egg whites, 500 grams unsalted butter, 2 TBSP Madagascar vanilla bean paste. To this I add the 1/3 cup of lemon curd, melted chocolate etc. at the end. As for the peanut butter, I use the Kraft whipped peanut butter. Makes a nice, smooth, great tasting frosting. Great for covering cakes & also for piping.
I just posted on another thread about this, but when I simply added peanut butter to my finished SMBC it made it too loose. Even after chilling it and re-whipping it for many minutes it never regained its consistency. It would just slip right off the spatula. So..for me it was not as easy as just throwing it in..and done. I'm not sure what I did wrong.
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