Jam Cake With Peanut Streusel Food

JAM CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Make cake:
• Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle. Generously butter a 9-inch square or round cake pan.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Whisk together butter, milk, and egg in a large bowl, then whisk in flour mixture until just combined. Pour batter into cake pan. Dollop jam all over surface, then swirl into batter with spoon.
• Make crumb topping:
• Whisk together butter, sugars, cinnamon, and salt until smooth. Stir in flour, then blend with your fingertips until incorporated. Sprinkle crumbs in large clumps over top of cake.
• Bake cake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and sides begin to pull away from pan, about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 5 minutes.

STRAWBERRY COFFEE CAKE WITH PEANUT BUTTER STREUSEL

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Coat 9x9-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray.
• COMBINE sour cream, milk and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract in medium bowl. Stir in muffin mixes until blended. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
• COMBINE peanut butter, brown sugar, flour and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract in medium bowl with a fork until crumbs form. Stir jam until smooth. Drop small spoonfuls over top of batter. Swirl with a knife. Crumble streusel over jam.
• BAKE 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 15 minutes before serving.

CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER STREUSEL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan. Combine first 4 ingredients in large bowl. Using electric mixer, beat on low speed until streusel is blended and crumbly. Transfer 1 cup lightly packed streusel to small bowl and reserve. Add eggs, milk, vanilla, baking powder, and baking soda to remaining streusel in large bowl. Beat at low speed until evenly moist. Increase speed to medium and beat until well blended, scraping bowl occasionally, about 3 minutes. Stir in 1 cup chips. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Sprinkle with reserved 1 cup streusel and remaining 1 cup chips.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack.

PEANUT BUTTER & STRAWBERRY JAM CAKE WITH PEANUT BUTTER WHITE

Steps:

• MAKE THE CAKE: Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350°F.
• Line the bottoms of 2 9x2-inch round cake pans with rounds of parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and peanut butter with an electric mixer on medium speed about 45 seconds, until the mixture is lighter in color.
• Add the sugar in a steady stream, then stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Return the mixer to medium speed and beat, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of the bowl, until the mixture is very light in color and texture, 4-5 minutes.
• Gradually pour in the eggs, about 1 tablespoon at a time.
• (If the mixture looks curdled, stop adding the eggs, increase speed to high, and beat until it looks smooth and shiny. Return mixer to medium speed and add the remaining eggs.) Continue beating until the mixture is ivory colored.
• The entire process of adding and beating the eggs should take 3-4 minutes.
• Reduce mixer speed to low.
• Add the flour mixture in 4 additions, alternating with 3 additions of the milk.
• After each addition, beat until smooth and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Add the vanilla toward the end of mixing.
• Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pans.
• Bake until the tops spring back when the cakes are lightly pressed in the centers and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean, 30-35 minutes.
• Cool cakes in pans for 10 minutes; invert onto wire racks and cool completely.
• MAKE THE GANACHE: Heat the cream in a small saucepan over low heat just until warm.
• Add the peanut butter and whisk to blend.
• Place the white chocolate in a medium bowl and pour the warm cream on top.
• Let stand for 1 minute, then stir until melted and smooth.
• Let stand at room temperature until cooled, thick, and spreadable, about 1 hour.
• Using a long, serrated knife, cut each cake layer in half horizontally.
• The tops will become the bottom and top of the cake, and the remaining layers will become the center.
• Place a dab of ganache in the center of an 8 1/2" cardboard cake round.
• Place a cake layer, top side down, on the cardboard.
• Spread with 3 tablespoons jam, spreading to the edges.
• Top with another layer and spread with 3 tablespoons ganache, spreading to the edges.
• Top with the remaining layer, top side up.
• Frost with remaining ganache.
• Place the chopped peanuts in a jelly-roll pan.
• Hold the cake in one hand directly over the pan and tilt the cake slightly.
• With the other hand, pick up some of the peanuts and press them into the sides of the cake.
• Rotate the cake as you apply the peanuts until the sides are completely covered.
• Using a clean metal spatula, press the peanuts into the ganache to make them more fully adhere.
• (The cake can be stored at room temperature, under a cake dome, for 1 day.) No more than 1 hour before serving, starting at the edge of the top of the cake, arrange the strawberry slices in concentric circles until the surface is covered.

OLD-FASHIONED JAM CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine raisins and pineapple; let stand for at least 30 minutes. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with jam and buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Stir in raisin mixture and nuts. , Spread into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , For icing, in a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in sugar and milk. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; cool until just warm. Pour into a large bowl; beat in enough confectioners' sugar to achieve a spreading consistency. Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake.