Cake Three: Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

This cake is made in honour of the second birthday of a little friend of mine. His mum and dad love The Princess Bride so much that one of his names is that of a character in the film. No, not Buttercup. Now, I’ve never been a huge fan of the PB, the one time people tried to get me to watch it I fell asleep and everyone was quite cross. (I fall asleep all the time when watching films, people shouldn’t take it personally. I just get tired.) Anyway, I decided that I’d make a themed cake for my little friend, and I did some googling of “Princess Bride” and “Food” and there’s a joke about peanuts, and another about mutton and tomatoes. My themed choices were limited.

I did a spot of googling and came up with some very weird American PB cake recipes and then I came…