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Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake

Stacey – February 23, 2022 – 35 Comments

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This recipe for Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake makes a dense, moist pound cake with a crusty exterior that’s lightly flavored with peanut butter. It’s topped with a decadent peanut butter glaze made with sweetened condensed milk.

Overhead shot of Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake

As part of my ongoing partnership with the Alabama Farmers Federation, I get to share some of the amazing recipes that have been featured in previous editions of their monthly magazine, Neighbors.

This month, I’m sharing this absolutely amazing Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake from Lyn McDaniel. And when I say absolutely amazing… I mean it. I’m a big pound cake fan and this has to be one of my favorites!

Drizzle of glaze on Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake

To start, this cake is made with peanut butter. And as peanut butter is one of my most favorite things in the world, I was destined to like this from the get-go.

Next, the glaze on this dense, moist pound cake is made with more peanut butter and another favorite ingredient of mine… sweetened condensed milk. Seriously. It’s crazy delicious!

And while this recipe is super easy, I’ve got a few tips to make sure your pound cake turns out perfectly every single time.

Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake with glaze

Tips for the perfect pound cake:

Start with room temperature ingredients. Make sure your eggs and fat (in this case shortening, butter, and cream cheese) are at room temperature. A cake is an emulsion of ingredients and those ingredients are going to combine more easily and evenly when they’re all at the same temperature.

When it says to cream the fat and sugar, do it. Nearly every pound cake recipe is going to tell you to cream the fat and sugar together. This doesn’t just mean until it’s combined. You’ll want to mix in for about 5 minutes until the color has lightened and it’s fluffy. Yes, I’m serious. 4 to 5 minutes – depending on the speed of your mixer.

But don’t over-mix! I know what you’re saying… you just said mix it really well. Well, once you add the eggs and flour, you don’t want to over-mix the batter. You can end up with a cake that has a fragile crust and it can get dense, rubbery, and might even shrink when it comes out of the oven. So, to recap… mix the fat and sugar like crazy, but only mix it enough to combine once you add the eggs and flour.

Prep your pan the right way. I have some old school pans that rarely stick. Some of my newer pans are notorious for sticking. The one thing that always works for me is to coat the pan in vegetable shortening, like Crisco, and flour it – being sure to get all the little crevices. Sometimes the baking sprays with flour work, many times they don’t.

Don’t over fill your pan. Most pound cake recipes are formulated for a 12 cup bundt pan. The problem with that is that some of the newer, more decorative pans won’t hold that much. So, be sure not to overfill your pan or you’ll be scraping burn cake off the bottom of your oven. For a little insurance policy, you can always place a baking sheet on the oven rack below the cake to catch the overflow. It’s a lot easier to clean a pan than the oven.

Sliced Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake

There’s nothing worse than putting all that work into a pound cake to then find that it’s overcooked and dry. Likewise, you don’t want it to be undercooked either. Undercooked cakes can still be liquidy or they can seem fully cooked but still have a dense middle section that didn’t get cooked. Here are my tips for making sure your cake is cooked properly…

How to tell when your pound cake is done:

The sides pull away from the pan. This is a visual cue that your cake is nearing being done. The edges of the cake will start to pull away form the sides of the pan. This isn’t a foolproof method, but one of the cues I use.

A cake tester comes out clean. Use a toothpick or skewer to test the cakes doneness. When inserted in the center of the cake, it should come out with no signs of wet batter. If a few crumbs come out on the tester, that’s ok.

The cake temp is around 208° to 210°F. Yes, I use a use a kitchen thermometer to test my cake’s doneness. Inserted into the center of the cake, it should register above 200° but no more than 212°F. I shoot for the range between 208° and 210°F.

Again, none of these methods are foolproof all by themselves, but a combination of them should yield a perfectly cooked cake.

Slice of Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake
Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake with glaze
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Recipe Card

Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake

Course Dessert
Cuisine American, southern
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 10
Author Stacey Little | Southern Bite

Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 1/2 cup butter flavored solid shortening
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For the glaze icing:

  • 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 3 tablespoons milk

Instructions

  • Grease and flour a 12-cup bundt pan. Set aside. DO NOT preheat the oven.
  • In a large bowl, use a mixer to cream shortening, butter, cream cheese, and peanut butter until smooth. Gradually add the sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, blending well. Add the vanilla and mix well.
  • Pour into the prepared pan. Place in a cold oven. Bake at 325°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to rest in the pan for about 10 minutes, then invert onto a serving platter.
  • Make the glaze icing by mixing the sweetened condensed milk, peanut butter, and milk together until smooth. Pour over cooled cake.
Peanut Butter Cream Pound Cake with glaze
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  1. ERIC CRUMBLE

    January 20, 2023 at 8:44 pm

    I am gonna make this tomorrow. Is it okay to use cake flour?

    Reply
    • Stacey

      January 23, 2023 at 12:32 pm

      Yes, but you’ll need to make some adjustments to the amount of flour if using cake flour as cake flour is finer. To substitute cake flour for all-purpose flour use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour for every cup of all-purpose flour.

      Reply
  2. Richard crews

    January 8, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    Made it for a Church eating meeting didn’t put all the icing on, thought it was a little too much, people loved it but thought it needed more icing, lol, so I am making it again for another meeting and it will have all the icing on it this time!

    Reply
    • Stacey

      January 9, 2023 at 12:30 pm

      Ha! Glad to hear it turned out great for you, Richard!

      Reply
  3. Melissa Sinyard

    November 22, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    Cant wait to try out this version tomorrow!!

    Reply
    • Stacey

      November 23, 2022 at 9:28 am

      Hope you’ll enjoy it!

      Reply
  4. Janice Brady Gill

    June 28, 2022 at 11:49 am

    I will be making this PB pound cake this afternoon and topping it with a chocolate glaze! My husband loves a Reeces cup… so this is for him. ❤️

    Reply
    • Stacey

      June 29, 2022 at 11:31 am

      Sounds amazing! Sure hope he enjoys it!

      Reply
  5. Becky Young

    June 18, 2022 at 1:17 pm

    Going to try this cake this evening…

    Reply
    • Sandra zHicks

      June 20, 2022 at 7:45 pm

      Do you have a recipe for Apple and pecan pound cake?

      Reply
    • Stacey

      June 21, 2022 at 9:06 am

      Great! Let us know how it goes!

      Reply
  6. Amy McConnell

    April 29, 2022 at 9:42 am

    Stacey, I made this for Easter and it was a huge hit. My husband loves my cream cheese pound cake but says to tell you he may have a new favorite pound cake!

    Reply
    • Stacey

      May 2, 2022 at 9:33 am

      So glad he liked it!

      Reply
  7. Jen

    March 6, 2022 at 10:40 am

    Does this work with creamy pb? Also I used natural peanut butter so it doesn’t have emulsifiers, will that effect the cake?

    Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 12:33 pm

      Creamy peanut butter should work just fine. But the natural peanut butter is very different, so I’m not sure you would have the same outcome. I’ve just not tested it with the natural peanut butter.

      Reply
  8. Muchelle

    March 5, 2022 at 6:51 pm

    Does this cake require refrigeration with the glaze containing milk?

    Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 12:34 pm

      If it is eaten within a few days it should be just fine, otherwise you would want to refrigerate it to extend the life of the cake.

      Reply
  9. Barbara Melvin

    February 27, 2022 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks for the tip cause I would have never thought of put this cake in a cold oven ,I gonna try it with my other cakes to see how it comes out I will bake this cake cause I love pb🎂

    Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 1:17 pm

      Starting the cake in a cold oven allows the leavening more time to let the cake rise. This works especially well with the long cook time for pound cakes.

      Reply
  10. Roni

    February 27, 2022 at 11:16 am

    Can you use smooth peanut butter instead of crunchy.

    Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 1:17 pm

      Absolutely!

      Reply
  11. Ashton Laurent

    February 25, 2022 at 4:36 pm

    I’d love to make this, but I can no longer tolerate shortening – like Crisco. Can I substitute butter for the shortening? I don’t know about you, but I think natural peanut butter and pure vanilla extract would work best here. After all, with pound cake, the better the ingredients, the better the cake. Just saying…

    Reply
    • Linda

      February 25, 2022 at 5:37 pm

      I’m wondering the same…maybe substituting extra peanut butter for the shortening might work?

      Reply
      • Stacey

        March 7, 2022 at 1:19 pm

        I wouldn’t recommend that due to the difference in fat content.

        Reply
    • Harlee

      February 26, 2022 at 10:58 pm

      Margarine and butter can both be used as a substitute for shortening, though their moisture contents should be taken into consideration before making the swap.

      Reply
      • Stacey

        March 7, 2022 at 1:18 pm

        Thanks, you’re absolutely correct.

        Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 1:23 pm

      You can use butter but it won’t be an equal swap due to butters water content. When it comes to the peanut butter, natural peanut butter is quite different than most commercially produced peanut butters. But, I haven’t tried it using natural peanut butter so I can’t say for sure.

      Reply
  12. Barbara

    February 25, 2022 at 8:34 am

    Hi can this be made with creamy instead of crunchy peanut butter?

    Reply
    • Stacey

      March 7, 2022 at 1:26 pm

      Absolutely!

      Reply
  13. Deborah kilpatrick

    February 24, 2022 at 1:48 am

    It needs to be a deep cake pan like a bundt pan . A 9×13 is to thin

    Reply
    • Moe

      May 7, 2022 at 11:12 pm

      I can’t find butter flavored shortening, can I use regular shortening? Add butter extract to it?

      Reply
  14. pc reis

    February 23, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    This looks awesome, I would love to make this for my guild but I don’t have a bundt pan. Can it be made in a 9 x 13 pan? Thank you Stacey, I SO look forward to your emails and delicious recipes, thank you!

    Reply
    • Stacey

      February 24, 2022 at 10:53 am

      Thank you! I think it might work, you’ll just want to be sure to not overfill the pan.

      Reply
  15. Kimberly Ritze

    February 23, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    All I can say is yum, hope to make this soon!

    Reply
    • Stacey

      February 24, 2022 at 10:53 am

      Sure hope you’ll enjoy it!

      Reply

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