Week 5- 'Molt' in the middle peanut butter cake

 Another week, another blog post! This week melt in the middle puddings (also known as Molten puddings). This is the first bake which I actually have had some experience in! One of my favourite desserts is lava cake so I was feeling an odd feeling I have never felt in this technical challenge project... confidence? no surely not.

When I told my family of the bake, many weren't enthusiastic, 'peanut butter? in a pudding?!', others commented saying it was very 'American'- well regardless I think it would do them good to try more 'foreign food'. However, they were not alone, even Paul Hollywood the creator of this recipe criticised ex-baker off star Martha for exactly the same recipe? - well, love or hate it I was baking it.

Pre-bake
Ingredients were very easy to source, all the things you are likely to have in your cupboard so you would be able to just make this pudding whenever, which was nice... nothing worse than a bake having niche ingredients! However, that being said this bake required pudding holders. As you can imagine I was not best pleased to see this after spending 23 quid on a ridiculous wafer maker. So I rebelled, I refused to spend more money on bakes and decided the humble muffin tin would suffice.

The Bake
Relatively easy for once and so quick, at last! I think the only thing that went wrong with this bake was not accounting the different size pudding tins and muffin tins would be. So I ended up with tons of peanut butter and not enough chocolatey goodness. Equally, I baked them the same time do not all of them were molten.. which was a bit of an issue as that tends to be a requirement for these puddings. 

The Result
For me, they were too sweet and dry. I think too much peanut butter may have been the issue, however for my dad, the biggest critic of peanut butter in a pudding.. well he finished three in one night and is fully converted to the Reese's PJ cup life! You win some you lose some.

*Getting into the food photography