Indulge your sweet cravings with the delectable Peanut Tunnel of Fudge Cake, a symphony of flavors and textures that will tantalize your taste buds. This irresistible dessert features a moist and fluffy chocolate cake enveloping a rich and creamy peanut butter filling, topped with a luscious fudge frosting that adds an extra layer of decadence. With its captivating presentation and irresistible taste, this cake is sure to be the star of any gathering.
In addition to the classic Peanut Tunnel of Fudge Cake, this article offers a delightful collection of other tempting recipes that showcase the versatility of this iconic dessert. Experiment with the Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake, which combines the flavors of chocolate and peanut butter in a moist and tender bundt cake, perfect for any occasion. Discover the simplicity and deliciousness of the Peanut Butter Fudge, a creamy and decadent fudge that is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.
For those who prefer a no-bake option, the No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie offers a delightful combination of creamy peanut butter filling and a graham cracker crust, making it an easy and indulgent treat. And for a unique twist, try the Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, which blend the classic flavors of peanut butter and chocolate chips into a chewy and satisfying cookie that is sure to be a hit with the whole family.
Embark on a culinary journey with this comprehensive guide to the Peanut Tunnel of Fudge Cake and its companion recipes. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, these recipes provide step-by-step instructions, helpful tips, and captivating images to ensure your baking experience is both enjoyable and successful. Prepare to indulge in a world of sweet sensations as you explore the delightful flavors and textures of these peanut butter and chocolate-inspired treats.
TUNNEL OF FUDGE CAKE IV
The ONLY perfect tunnel of fudge cake recipe I can find - it came from a 1950's flour package.
Provided by AMCLAYTON
Categories Desserts Cakes Chocolate Cake Recipes
Time 1h15m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Gradually blend in 2 cups confectioners' sugar. Beat in the flour and 3/4 cup cocoa powder. Stir in the chopped walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 1 hour, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
- For the glaze: In a small bowl, combine 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa. Stir in milk, a tablespoon at a time, until desired drizzling consistency is achieved. Spoon over cake.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 543.6 calories, Carbohydrate 62.1 g, Cholesterol 69.9 mg, Fat 32 g, Fiber 3.2 g, Protein 7.7 g, SaturatedFat 5.4 g, Sodium 259 mg, Sugar 43.9 g
TUNNEL-OF-FUDGE CAKE
The original tunnel-of-fudge cake won second place in the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest for the late Ella Rita Helfrich of Houston. That version used a fudge icing mix to create a gooey chocolate center. But Pillsbury discontinued the icing mix, and the resulting clamor of home bakers led Pillsbury to release a recipe for making tunnel-of-fudge cake from scratch. In 2004, The Times presented an adaptation of that recipe with the help of Shirley Corriher, a biochemist and the author of "Cookwise" and "Bakewise," books about how scientific principles can be applied to cooking and baking.
Provided by The New York Times
Categories snack, cakes, dessert
Time 4h
Yield 1 cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Place a heavy baking sheet or pizza stone on a shelf in the lower third of the oven. Heat the oven to 350 degrees (see note).
- On a large baking sheet, roast nuts in the oven for 10 minutes. Keep watch that they do not burn. Pour into a bowl, and add 2 tablespoons butter and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Toss well and set aside.
- Generously butter the inside of a large 12-cup Bundt cake pan.
- In a mixer, beat butter to soften until it becomes fluffy. Add sugar, then the brown sugar and continue to beat until airy. While beating, if the bowl does not feel cool, place it in the freezer for five minutes, then resume beating.
- Beat in 3/4 teaspoon salt, vanilla and vegetable oil.
- Beat in two egg yolks. Crack the four whole eggs into a large mixing bowl. With a small knife, cut yolks and barely stir the eggs, minimally blending the whites and yolks.
- With the mixer on the lowest speed, beat the eggs into the batter in three batches. Mix in confectioners' sugar and the cocoa.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir flour and nuts together. Then with a spatula stir the flour-nut mixture into the batter. Pour the batter into the Bundt pan.
- Bake for 40 minutes. You cannot use the toothpick test because the cake contains so much sugar that the center will not set but will remain a tunnel-of-fudge. You are dependent on a correct oven temperature and the 40-minute cooking time.
- When removed from the oven, the cake will have a runny fudge core with an air pocket above the fudge. About 30 minutes after taking the cake out of the oven, press the inside and outside edge of the cake bottom down all the way around to minimize the air pocket. Let the cake, still in the pan, cool on a rack for two to three hours. Invert the cake onto a platter and let cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 727, UnsaturatedFat 20 grams, Carbohydrate 87 grams, Fat 41 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 9 grams, SaturatedFat 18 grams, Sodium 273 milligrams, Sugar 60 grams, TransFat 1 gram
TUNNEL OF FUDGE CAKE
This recipe, arguably the recipe most closely identified with the Bake-Off® Contest, mysteriously develops a "tunnel of fudge" filling as it bakes. Don't scrimp on the nuts, or it won't work!
Provided by Pillsbury Kitchens
Categories Dessert
Time 4h30m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 12-cup fluted tube cake pan or 10-inch tube pan. In large bowl, combine sugar and margarine; beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add 2 cups powdered sugar; blend well. By hand, stir in flour and remaining cake ingredients until well blended. Spoon batter into greased and floured pan; spread evenly.
- Bake at 350°F. for 45 to 50 minutes or until top is set and edges are beginning to pull away from sides of pan.** Cool upright in pan on wire rack 1 1/2 hours. Invert onto serving plate; cool at least 2 hours.
- In small bowl, combine all glaze ingredients, adding enough milk for desired drizzling consistency. Spoon over top of cake, allowing some to run down sides. Store tightly covered.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 570, Carbohydrate 62 g, Cholesterol 80 mg, Fat 6, Fiber 3 g, Protein 8 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, ServingSize 1/16 of Recipe, Sodium 260 mg, Sugar 43 g
TUNNEL OF FUDGE CAKE
So rich and gooey! This cake is made completely from scratch-no mixes required. The secret to the fudgy tunnel is the addition of the nuts-don't be stingy with them! It's from Pillsbury Best of the Bakeoff.
Provided by Kaarin
Categories Dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 16 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan or 10 inch tube pan.
- In large bowl, beat butter and sugar till fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Gradually add 2 cups powdered sugar, flour and cocoa.
- Stir in nuts by hand.
- Spoon batter into pan; spread evenly.
- Bake at 350 F for 58-62 minutes.
- Note: you won't be able to test for doneness since the filling is soft, so accurate temperature and timing is key.
- Cool in pan 1 hour.
- Invert on serving platter and cool completely.
- In a small bowl, combine all glaze ingredients adding enough milk for desired spreading consistency.
- Spoon over cake, drizzling down sides.
- Store tightly covered.
CHOCOLATE-PEANUT BUTTER BUNDT CAKE
This cake version of a peanut butter cup boasts moist devil's food cake wrapped around a soft, peanut buttery cake core. The peanut butter cake batter will stay nicely centered if you enlist the help of a resealable plastic bag or pastry bag to pipe it into a ring in the middle of the batter, but you don't need to be so exacting. If that feels too fancy, spooning it in will yield equally delicious results. The cake is nicely sweet on its own, but take it over the top by adding peanut butter and chocolate glazes. Keep the glazes thin so that they're fluid enough not only to evenly coat the surface and run own the sides of the cake, but also so they combine and marble together to make Instagram-worthy swirls.
Provided by Erin Jeanne McDowell
Categories cakes, dessert
Time 2h30m
Yield One 10-inch cake
Number Of Ingredients 26
Steps:
- Make the peanut butter filling: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the peanut butter, cream cheese and brown sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix on medium speed until fully incorporated. Add the flour and salt and mix on low speed to combine. Scrape the mixture into a large resealable plastic bag (or pastry bag) and set aside. (Alternatively, you can scrape the mixture into a medium bowl.) If necessary, rinse and dry the paddle attachment and bowl before proceeding.
- Make the cake: Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Lightly spray a 10-inch bundt pan with nonstick spray. Add a few spoonfuls of cocoa powder into the pan and tap it around until the pan is fully coated in cocoa.
- Place 1 cup/95 grams cocoa powder in a medium heat-safe bowl, and pour the boiling water over it. Whisk well to combine, then add the buttermilk and whisk to combine.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter, oil and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 4 to 5 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing on medium speed until fully incorporated and scraping the bowl between each addition. Add the vanilla and mix on low speed to combine.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt to combine. Add about a third of this mixture to the mixer and mix on low speed to combine.
- Add half of the cocoa-buttermilk mixture to the mixer and mix on low speed to combine. Continue to alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients until the batter is uniformly combined.
- Pour about 2/3 of the cake batter into the prepared pan and spread into an even layer. Cut a 1-inch opening from one of the bottom corners of the bag and squeeze the peanut butter filling into the pan, making a ring in the center of the chocolate batter aiming not to touch the outer edge or inner tube of the pan. Alternatively, you can gently spoon the peanut butter mixture on top of the chocolate batter, aiming to create a ring shape.
- Pour the remaining chocolate cake batter on top of the peanut butter filling and gently spread into an even layer. Transfer the pan to the oven and bake until a toothpick or skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour or up to 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then use a small offset spatula to gently loosen the cake at the edges and around the inner tube, and invert it onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Make the peanut butter glaze: Heat the cream in a small pot to a simmer. In a small heat-safe bowl, mix the peanut butter and confectioners' sugar to combine, then add the hot cream, and mix until smooth. It should be thick but still loose enough to drizzle easily.
- Make the chocolate glaze: Heat the cream in the small pot to a simmer. Place the chocolate in a medium heat-safe bowl, then pour the hot cream over it. Stir until the mixture is totally smooth. It will be thinner than the peanut butter glaze.
- Place the cake on the cooling rack set over a baking sheet. Spoon half of the chocolate glaze over the cake, letting it drip down the sides, then spoon half of the peanut butter glaze on top. Repeat this process with the remaining glaze, and use the back of the spoon to gently swirl where the two glazes meet in a few spots. Gently remove the cake and transfer to a serving platter. Allow the glaze to set at least 15 minutes before slicing and serving.
FUDGY PEANUT BUTTER CAKE
I clipped this easy peanut butter cake recipe from a newspaper years ago. The house smells fantastic while it's slow cooking. My husband and son enjoy the cake with ice cream and nuts on top. -Bonnie Evans, Norcross, Georgia
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h40m
Yield 4 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a large bowl, beat the milk, peanut butter, oil and vanilla until well blended. In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup sugar, flour and baking powder; gradually beat into milk mixture until blended. Spread into a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker coated with cooking spray., In a small bowl, combine cocoa and remaining sugar; stir in boiling water. Pour into slow cooker (do not stir). , Cover and cook on high until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 1-1/2-2 hours. Serve warm, with ice cream if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 348 calories, Fat 13g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 3mg cholesterol, Sodium 160mg sodium, Carbohydrate 55g carbohydrate (39g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 7g protein.
TUNNEL OF FUDGE CAKE (CAKE MIX)
This is a very rich cake, but using a mix makes it that much easier. Everyone loves it when I make it.
Provided by jamiej
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Place milk in pan and whisk in pudding, cook until comes to a boil, 4-5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in chips and butter until smooth and thick; set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350F; prepare 12 cup bundt pan.
- Mix cake, oil, sour cream, Irish cream, eggs, and vanilla in a bowl.
- Reserve 2 cups of batter. Pour remaining batter into pan; spoon pudding in a ring on top (DO NOT ALLOW PUDDING TO TOUCH THE SIDES!) spoon reserved batter on top.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes (mine is done around 30 minutes, just make sure to keep an eye on it).
- You can frost, drizzle melted chocolate or just dust with powdered sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 670.2, Fat 41.2, SaturatedFat 13.6, Cholesterol 119.8, Sodium 644.8, Carbohydrate 69, Fiber 2.8, Sugar 41.8, Protein 10.3
PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE CAKE
Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, but with what a difference. Peanut butter is the magic ingredient. It is spread between the cake and the frosting.
Provided by MARBALET
Categories Desserts Cakes Sheet Cake Recipes
Yield 14
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Combine flour, white sugar, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl; set aside.
- Melt 1 cup butter or margarine in a heavy saucepan; stir in 1/2 cup cocoa. Stir in buttermilk, and eggs until well blended. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Remove from heat. Mix into flour mixture, stirring until smooth. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour batter into a greased and floured 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes, or until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack. Carefully spread peanut butter over warm cake. Cool completely.
- To Make Frosting: Combine 1/2 cup butter or margarine, 1/4 cup cocoa, and buttermilk in a small sauce pan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Pour over confectioners' sugar, stirring until smooth. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Spread chocolate frosting over peanut butter on cake. Cut into squares.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 683.7 calories, Carbohydrate 87.1 g, Cholesterol 79.8 mg, Fat 35.4 g, Fiber 3.7 g, Protein 11.6 g, SaturatedFat 16.2 g, Sodium 393.1 mg, Sugar 67.6 g
DECADENT FUDGE CAKE
Everyone loves the rich flavor in this decadent cake made with four types of chocolate. -Anna Hogge, Yorktown, Virginia
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h35m
Yield 16 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Cream butter in a large bowl. Gradually mix in sugar. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine buttermilk and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with flour, beginning and ending with flour. Add melted chocolate, chocolate syrup and vanilla. Stir in 1 cup miniature chocolate chips. Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° for 1-1/4 hours or until a toothpick comes out clean. Immediately invert cake onto a serving plate; cool completely., Meanwhile, in a microwave, melt white chocolate and 2 tablespoons shortening; stir until smooth. Cool slightly; drizzle over cake. Melt remaining chips and shortening in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from the heat; cool slightly. Drizzle over white chocolate.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 519 calories, Fat 25g fat (15g saturated fat), Cholesterol 78mg cholesterol, Sodium 192mg sodium, Carbohydrate 63g carbohydrate (44g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 7g protein.
Tips:
- Use high-quality ingredients: The better the ingredients, the better your cake will be. This means using real butter, sugar, and eggs, and avoiding artificial flavors and preservatives.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy: This will help to incorporate air into the batter, making the cake light and airy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition: This will help to prevent the batter from curdling.
- Be careful not to overmix the batter: Overmixing can make the cake tough.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven: This will help to ensure that the cake bakes evenly.
- Let the cake cool completely before frosting it: This will help to prevent the frosting from melting.
Conclusion:
Peanut Tunnel of Fudge Cake is a delicious and decadent dessert that is perfect for any occasion. With its rich chocolate flavor, peanut butter filling, and creamy fudge frosting, this cake is sure to be a hit with everyone who tries it. So next time you're looking for a special dessert to make, give this recipe a try. You won't be disappointed!
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