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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Sweet Melissa Sundays: Fallen Chocolate-Peanut Butter Souffle Cake



This week, the sweet Sarah of Blue Ridge Baker chose our recipe: Fallen Chocolate Souffle Cake from the Sweet Melissa Baking Book. I was pretty excited to make this one, as I'd never done any sort of souffle anything before. Half way through making it, I realized how crazy it is that this cake doesn't need any flour at all! Ahh, the power of egg whites.

Overall, this was very easy to put together. It went very quickly and was rather painless. I halved the recipe and baked up the batter in 2 mini-bundts + 2 mini springform pans. I made only slight variations to change this Chocolate Fallen Souffle Cake into a Chocolate-PEANUT BUTTER Fallen Souffle Cake:

Adaptations:
I Halved the recipe and made some changes:
5 ounces ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate
+ Approx 1 - 1.5 ounces Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
*Omitted Orange Zest
*Reduce the amount of Grand Marnier by a smidge. (Used about 1 teaspoon)





The result was quite nice. The peanut butter flavor was a nice addition. The cake came out almost like a rich, chocolate sponge brownie... if that makes any sense. It has the rich chocolately moist-ness of a brownie, but was light like sponge cake. Yum! Can't wait to try this with ice cream later. :) Be sure to see how the other SMS bakers' Souffle Cakes baked up!!! And see Sarah's wonderful blog for the recipe. Cheers! And happy Labor Day!!

18 comments:

Lauren said...

i'm glad the flavor turned out for you!

Nina said...

OH PEANUT BUTTER! That sounds amazing!

margot said...

The souffles look great and adding peanut butter almost always makes any dessert better! I really enjoyed this one too.

Unknown said...

Oh man, I LOVE that you turned into a chocolate-peanut butter souffle, because really, what's not better with peanut butter? :) The souffles look awesome!

Mrs. G said...

Peanut butter was a good idea!

Sarah said...

Thanks for baking with me this week! Great idea to add peanut butter. Your souffle looks great, and I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much.

k.a.r.e.n said...

WOW! Peanut butter! Looks and sounds wonderful!

Fallon said...

That looks wonderful!

Megan said...

The title alone was enough to make me start salivating. Chocolate and pb is my favorite combo.

Jeannette said...

genius. pure genius! peanut butter and chocolate souffles. my mouth is watering!

Smitten Sugar said...

This looks wonderful! Chocolate is peanut butter---wow!

Ingrid_3Bs said...

The PB addition was a good one as chocolate on it's own isn't a fave!
~ingrid

spike. said...

peanut butter! so nice

Eliana said...

Sounds delish. Great job.

Karin said...

Peanut butter sounds amazing! Will definitely try that sometime.

Melissa said...

I love pb and chocolate! What a great idea!

Palidor said...

Wow, that looks absolutely wonderful! Great idea to add peanut butter.

Anonymous said...

Love the twist with the peanut butter.

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