Food blogging isn’t always pretty…not everything I make comes out in the nice little package I envision when starting a new recipe.
Take this Peanut Butter Bundt Cake with Jelly Glaze. I make bundt cakes all the time and think they are one of the most beautiful cakes around. I don’t always blog the cakes I make, but this cake… this cake I had big plans for. My friend Cindy over at Once Upon a Loaf is hosting Project PB&J where she has challenged bloggers to create a baked good of some sort representing the classic PB&J.
Over the weeks I’ve been envisioning a peanut butter bundt cake with a beautiful jelly glaze drizzled over it. What I got was…
This…
Turned this…
What my kids got was an earful of curse words as I swore at the stupid bundt cake pan that held on to huge chunks of my delicious peanut butter cake!
Not so pretty, right?
When life hands you chunked up bundt cake and jelly glaze that has cooled because you’ve been sitting around cussing for to long, what do you do?
You make a parfait, of course! So now, instead of a beautiful Peanut Butter Bundt Cake with Blackberry Jelly Glaze, I give you Peanut Butter Bundt Cake & Blackberry Jelly parfaits. Yummy idea turned failure turned rebound success.
Either way you make it, this bundt cake is a PB&J Lover’s Dream. If you are a big PB&J fan make sure to check out the details and prizes surrounding Project PB&J over on Cindy’s blog. I hope you’ll join in on the fun!
Recipe: Peanut Butter Bundt Cake with Blackberry Jelly Glaze
For the cake:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste (can sub vanilla extract)
- 5 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
For the glaze:
- 1 cup blackberry jelly (or flavor of your choice)
- Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour 10 inch bundt cake pan. (Take it from me… do this really thoroughly)
- In large mixing bowl, combine butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla paste; beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Reduce mixer speed to low. Slowly add flour, baking powder, and salt; mix until well incorporated. Add milk, increase speed, mixing until batter is smooth and incorporated.
- Bake at 350 F until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Cool in pan 15 minutes on wire rack. Carefully remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
- For glaze, simmer jelly in a saucepan until liquified. Drizzle warm glaze over cooled cake. Serve.
I love it when you can turn failures into success. I’ll bet those parfaits are delicious!
It certainly helps when you can salvage something you’ve worked hard on, that’s for sure! Thanks for the kind words
I love reading posts like this — it’s so comforting knowing that I’m not the only imperfect one.
Your parfaits look delicious! I think I’ll give the cake a try — I’ve been craving peanut butter this week. Thanks.
Whenever you need imperfection, just holler. I have plenty of examples to share
It still looks incredibly delicious! Wonderful idea!
Thanks so much, Kristy! After a little recovery time, it all turned out just fine.
HA! You are so right! It definitely isn’t always pretty… but I love these happy accidents. So delicious, Kristen!
Happy accidents are always a great thing, right? Someone on twitter said they won a contest because of a happy baking fail turned recipe success. Gotta love that!
you cuss? oh my! I do too (and so does Levi – sadly). regardless, love your honesty and humility!!!
Oh girl… I never would have pictured you as being a cusser either! It takes a lot, but bundt cakes stuck in their pan can apparently turn me into a swearing sailor
cuss….like a sailor!!!
I’m sorry your bundt cake ended up like that but once you sliced it and slathered that blackberry jelly glaze, you could never know that that happened! It’s still so goddang gorgeous!
It tasted great both ways… I guess that’s all that matters, right? Thanks for the kind comment
Snort. I have so been there. It was Christmas. My stubborn self made another one right there in the middle of a full-on family celebration. Perfectionist much?
Peanut butter and jelly cake sounds like a divine treat.
For some reason, that totally does not surprise me, Shaina!
ohh! that sucks! that really sucks! I hate it when that happens, and trust me, i’m sure it happens to me more than you… a lot more! Indeed, it’s never easy when you’ve placed such high hopes on one cake.. Nevertheless, the pictures you take are amazing! Amazing! I am so adoring you right now!
Thanks so much, Jesica! It’s always good to know we aren’t alone in our bundt cake fall apart stories
I totally know what you mean! You bake all the time and then when you decided to blog it something annoying happens! That said, it still looks and sounds delicious – great photos too : )
That is so the truth… it’s like when you have a good hair day and no one sees it!
This is one reason that I’m always very wary of bundt cakes, the potential for them to mess up is just too high! I love how you managed to save this recipe though, the parfait looks just wonderful!
There has to be some product out there that can save our Bundt’s. Just don’t know what it is! Maybe we should invent something
Awesome rebound, Kristen! This sounds so amazing too. Wish I had a slice for breakfast. Love this!
There was plenty… would have loved to share
I hate to say it but I’m kind of glad that I’m not the only one who curses at her food
Hehehe… it’s so gratifying.
I’m sorry about your cake
However, the little parfait, yaaaaa, that little guy looks DANG good! I’m going to have to make this cake, HOPE it sticks to the pan, and then make a little parfait out of it!
I’ll loan you my pan for a sure fire bundt cake stick fest.
Oh, Kristen, I adore you….because you turn lemons into lemonade, because you are so humble and kind, and because you are real and genuine in every single way.
Feeling is mutual, my friend
oh I love that you turned you fail into something fabulous!!
and PB&J bundt cake sounds delicious!
It was pretty fab… not as fab as your awesome coffee cake, but fab nonetheless.
i think those parfaits look gorgeous
i’ve had my fair share of cakes sticking to the pan – as long as it still tastes good, it’s a success!
The taste is really all that matters, and this tasted so good!
they look so good! although the cake didn’t turn out; i love what you made with what you had!
I am just wondering where you learned the curse words……surely it wasn’t when you were growing up in my house, was it???? Believe it or not, I had an angelfood cake do the same thing the week before you were here. And yes, it was one I was taking somewhere for a dessert for a dinner we were invited to attend. I just stuck the broken part together and went on. (I may have used a few bad words at that time.)
I’ve never heard you cuss a day in my life, mom. Ever.
Love that you posted this. I think everyone’s dealt with a bundt that sticks. It sounds like a fabulous combination.
I’m attracted to messes… especially pictures of them!
What a great way to save a cake! I don’t have kids, so I don’t have to worry about cursing after something didn’t come out right from the oven, but I’m afraid for my neighbors’ kids. I bet they can hear me through the walls, hehe.