Chasing Pavements and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

I hooked some of you with Adele's song Chasing Pavements, and others of you were enticed by the Peanut Butter Cake. Adele + Cake = True Love.

Did you see Adele on PBS' Live from the Artist's Den? I happened to catch only  the second half of it this past weekend. So good. If I had a DVR, I would've DVR'd it, or Tivo'd or whatever is new that I'm not aware of. I still have VHS.
Jealous yet?

Watch Live From the Artists Den: Adele on PBS. See more from FESTIVAL.

Check your local listings to see when it's going to replay. Surely it will, won't it? And I'll have my VHS tape ready.

Pssst. Netflix also has Adele's DVD  Live at Royal Albert Hall ... it's in my Queue with a VERY LONG WAIT next to it's title. Boo.
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Now for the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake...

I have had countless emails, Facebook messages, and one offer for shelter (should I ever need it) if I shared the recipe for the peanut butter cake I serve at Craft Weekend.

The recipe that I use is from Smitten Kitchen.
It's perfect.
Don't change a thing.

I follow the recipe exactly.
I leave out the peanut brittle.
It's rich.
It's wonderful.
It takes your breathe away, and makes you beg for coffee.

I just took another peanut butter cake out of the oven for this weekend's festivities. I will frost it with the peanut butter cream cheese frosting, and then throw it in the freezer. The day that I want to serve it, I pull it out of the freezer to defrost and whip up a batch of the chocolate ganche to pour over. Then I lick the bowl clean while everyone else is crafting their brains out.

Thank you Smitten Kitchen for sharing this with the world.
Thank you for making all my chocolate peanut butter cake dreams come true.
Get her recipe here.