Vegan Peanut Butter Cake
Vegan peanut butter cake - this delicious peanut butter sheet cake with chocolate chips and roasted peanuts is the perfect snacking cake. It is easy to make, moist, fluffy and very more-ish!
Servings 16 people
Ingredients
- 100 g (3 ½ oz) dark chocolate or chocolate chips
- 60 g (2 oz) roasted peanuts
- 150 g (⅔ cup) smooth creamy peanut butter
- 80 ml (⅓ cup) neutral oil (such as sunflower)
- 220 g (1 ¼ cups) light brown soft sugar
- 240 ml (1 cup) unsweetened non-dairy milk (I use soy)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 280 g (2 ¼ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease a 23 x 33cm/9 x 13 in rectangular cake tin and line with baking parchment, leaving some overhanging so that you can easily lift the cake out of the tin.
- Roughly chop the chocolate (unless you are using chocolate chips) and the peanuts. Set aside.
- Whisk together the peanut butter and oil until smooth. Whisk in the sugar until fully combined. Whisk in the milk, vanilla, vinegar and salt.
- Sift together the plain flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir with a balloon whisk until no dry lumps remain.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and spread it level. Scatter the chopped chocolate and peanuts over the top.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 20 minutes then carefully use the overhanging parchment to lift it out onto a wire rack (don't try and remove the parchment, the cake is very delicate).
Notes
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.
- All of my recipes are developed using grams, and as with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup coversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!