Peanut Butter and Jelly Coffee Cake

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Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day! PB & J was one of my favorite sandwiches as a kid and it still is. Whole wheat bread, creamy peanut butter, and sweet jelly or jam-classic comfort food! I never get tired of a good PB & J. To celebrate this fine holiday, I will be eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, but I also made you a special treat, a Peanut Butter and Jelly Coffee Cake. This cake tastes like a PB & J sandwich, but in cake form. Oh yeah!

This cake is easy to make and I bet you have all of the ingredients in your kitchen. There is peanut butter in the cake and in the peanut butter streusel topping. I used creamy peanut butter to make the cake and crunchy peanut butter for the streusel topping because I wanted a little extra crunch. This cake is meant for peanut butter fanatics-like myself:)

The cake is tender and moist with a sweet tunnel of jelly in the middle. I used grape jelly to stick with tradition, but use whatever jelly or jam you like. The cake tastes just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but in dessert form. The peanut butter streusel topping is out of this world and adds a nice crunch to the cake.

Since this is a coffee cake it is perfectly acceptable to have a big fat slice for breakfast. And since it is a PB & J cake it is also perfectly acceptable to eat it for lunch:) Wash it down with a cold glass of milk and you are set!

This Peanut Butter and Jelly Coffee Cake is the perfect way to celebrate National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day! Grab a jar of peanut butter and your favorite jelly and get baking!

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Coffee Cake

If you like Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches, you will love this PB & J coffee cake!
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Instructions
 

  • 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 8x8 baking pan with cooking spray and set aside.
  • 2. First, make the peanut butter streusel topping. In a medium bowl, combine the flour and brown sugar. Mix with a spoon until there are no big brown sugar clumps. Add the peanut butter and melted butter, stirring until the mixture is crumbly. Set aside.
  • 3. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the peanut butter and butter until creamy and smooth, about 3 minutes. Add the brown sugar mix until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla extract. Turn the mixer to low and alternately add the dry ingredients and buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Don't over mix, beat until just combined.
  • 4. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan. Spoon grape jelly evenly over the cake. Take a toothpick and gently swirl in the jelly. Sprinkle the peanut butter streusel over the cake. Bake for 30 minutes, or until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Transfer the cake to a wire cooling rack and cool completely. Slice and serve!
  • Note: I used grape jelly, but you can use your favorite flavor of jelly or jam! Enjoy!

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I'm Maria and my husband is Josh. We share a love of cooking, baking, and entertaining. We enjoy creating recipes that are simple, fresh, and family friendly. We love sitting around the table with good food, good conversation, and good friends and family! Our kitchen is always open!
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  1. Well-done, Maria! This is brilliant! I need to find out about foodie holidays in advance so that I can prepare. This one is right up my alley!

  2. Yum! I would totally make this… I just made a jam from last summer’s frozen raspberries and peaches and it would totally go well in this!

  3. This is the perfect recipe for PB&J Day! I am dying over the pb streusel topping!

  4. PBJ is one of my favorites! If not my favorite! I would LOVE this cake! Wonderful recipe!

  5. I love this recipe and I love your site. I hope you don’t mind, I included a link to it on my PB&J Day post. Have a great day!

  6. there is really no better combination than peanut butter and jelly. this cake looks simply lovely!

  7. Just dove into this cake…it is divine. So much better than I expected. The peanut butter taste is serious – better than a PBJ sandwich by far!!! Love it!!

  8. This looks amazing!!! I didn’t know today was National PB&J Day and since that’s what I bring for lunch everyday, I would’ve made something! I’m def saving this recipe. YUM!

  9. Yummy!

    I didn’t realize it was PB&J Day until 4:30pm today otherwise I may have had a PB&J for lunch. I loved that sandwich as a kid. Still a stellar sandwich in my book!

  10. Yum, I’ve never seen a pb&j combination in coffee cake form. I’m sure I’ll be over the moon once I take that first bite.

  11. Lovely coffee cake — reminds me of delicious tea cakes. And what a great idea with streusel 🙂

  12. This is wonderful Maria! I love anything peanut butter and jelly so I’m sure I’d adore this cake. Thanks for sharing!

  13. This peanut butter and jelly coffee cake looks so delicious. I remember as i was growing up, pb & j was a favorite as well.

  14. I just made this for my family, and they LOVED it. I substituted the chocolate chips for the jelly since my husband doesn’t like any kind of fruit in any kind of cake. Thank you for the delicious recipe that I’ll definitely make again.

  15. PB & J is the ultimate comfort for me! Put it in a cake form, and you’ve got me hooked! What a great post to come back to after being out of the country for 3 months! 🙂 It’s so nice to be back and catching up on all your food adventures! I missed it very much!

  16. I just made this tonight (in a 9-inch cake pan because I didn’t have an 8×8-inch square dish) and it was absolutely delicious! You can definitely taste the peanut butter in the cake; as a peanut butter fanatic myself, I couldn’t have been happier! I made two adjustments: 1) I found the crumble a little too paste-like so I added an additional 2-3 tablespoons of flour and 2) I substituted half of the all-purpose flour with whole wheat pastry flour in the cake.

    Thanks for the wonderful recipe! I’ll be making it again 🙂

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