Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake

 
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake is a chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling drizzled with chocolate ganache a peanut butter topping and Reeses peanut butter cups. If you prefer all chocolate be sure to try my Death by Chocolate Bundt Cake!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake
If you love decadent desserts this cake is for you! And if you are someone who craves the combination of chocolate and peanut butter you definitely need to try this cake! The chocolate cake is dense and moist and you get the peanut flavor from the filling the topping and Reeses peanut butter cups!

Cake Ingredients Substitutions
There are four parts to this recipethe chocolate bundt cake the peanut butter filling chocolate ganache and the peanut butter topping.
Cake Be sure the ingredients specifically eggs sour cream and buttermilk in this recipe are at room temperature. Room temperature ingredients emulsify blend better and quicker when mixed. The sweet spot of temperatures for most ingredients should be between 65F and 70F unless specified like when adding hot coffee to the cake batter.
Buttermilk Adding buttermilk to cakes gives cakes a softer crumb. If you dont have any on hand make your own homemade buttermilk.
Coffee Yes I added hot coffee to the chocolate cake. Trust me it adds so much depth to the chocolate flavor and you wont get a coffee taste! If you are totally against using coffee in chocolate desserts you can always use hot water.
Peanut Butter Filling The filling is a cream cheese filling with added peanut butter it will be quite a bit thicker than the batter. I do NOT recommend using chunky peanut butter or allnatural peanut butter in this recipe. The chunky just doesnt work in a smooth creamy filling and the allnatural peanut butter is a bit too oily for this recipe.
Bundt Cake vs. Regular Cake
The difference between a bundt cake and a regular cake is that a bundt cake is baked in a bundt pan also known as a fluted tube pan! Well that is true and part of the answer but not the entire answer. 
Another difference is the bundt pans have a cylindrical hole in the middle which means more of the cake will touch the sides of the pan. This results in a crustier edge. This isnt a bad thing it is perfect for supporting any frosting or decorating you may add to the cake.
The hole in the center