Archive note — March 2022: This Fake Bake records a £10 Tesco challenge from March 2022. Supermarket products, prices and availability change, so the shopping list below is historical rather than a current Tesco price guide.
Allergen note: This cake deliberately contains peanuts and is not suitable for anyone with a peanut allergy. The ready-made cakes, biscuits, chocolate bars, frosting and other packaged ingredients may contain additional allergens or cross-contact warnings; check every current label before making it.
You already know I don’t play by the rules. So when my poll told me to leave PB&J alone, what did I do? I made the blingiest, most outrageous Fake Bake yet. PB&J? Not a UK thing, apparently. But neither was the Chocolate Orange Fake Bake, and you lot went feral for that. So, here we go again.
Nobody asked for Chocolate Orange, and it became Fake Bake royalty. So, I took another punt: Peanut Butter and Jam. Risky? Maybe. Worth it? OH. MY. DAYS.
At the time, this became one of the biggest responses in the Fake Bakes series and one of my first TikToks to get a lot of love.
For this March 2022 challenge I went to a Tesco Extra armed with my bags for life and Clubcard. The £10 haul included two raspberry sponge layer cakes, crunchy peanut butter, raspberry jam, several peanut-butter chocolate bars, a Madeira cake loaf and Jammie Dodgers.
My favourite bit was the mini PB&J sandwiches made from slices of Madeira cake. They would also fit right into an Alice in Wonderland cake themed afternoon tea.
Fake Bake Recipe - Peanut Butter & Jam Cake
@angesdesucre £10 Fake Bake - PB & J cake from Tesco. No oven, no mixers, broke but bougie cakes. #fakebake
Ingredients
2x ready-made round raspberry sponge cakes (5" or 6" size)
1 tub ready-made raspberry flavour frosting
1 jar crunchy peanut butter
1 jar seedless raspberry jam
1 loaf Madeira cake
1 pack Jammie Dodgers
Peanut-butter chocolate bars
Method
1. Prepare a cake turntable, angled palette knife, cake scraper, cake board, tablespoon, piping bag with a small star nozzle, knife and spatula.
2. Unbox the cakes. Smear a dollop of frosting in the middle of the cake board, place one layer cake on it, then separate its sponge layers and spread an even layer of peanut butter and jam before sandwiching them again.
3. Loosen the frosting, spread a little peanut butter over the top of the first cake and pipe frosting around the edge.
4. Stack the second layer cake on top, pipe frosting around the cake, then smooth the sides and top. Chill until firm.
5. Make the Madeira-cake PB&J sandwiches. Slice the loaf into 1.5–2cm slices. Spread peanut butter and jam over half, cut small hearts from the remaining slices, then sandwich them together.
6. Warm the peanut butter and jam separately in warm-water baths until loose enough to drizzle. If you want a smoother peanut-butter drip, pass some through a sieve. Keep any peanut pieces you want to use for decoration in a clean bowl; there is no need to rinse them.
7. Press some of the reserved peanut pieces around the base of the cake.
8. Chop the peanut-butter chocolate bars into large and small pieces.
9. Spoon warm peanut butter and jam around the edge to make alternating drips.
10. Pipe frosting swirls over the top and decorate with Jammie Dodgers, peanut pieces, chocolate-bar pieces and the Madeira-cake PB&J sandwiches.
Back in 2022 I was delighted that a single jar of peanut butter could do so many jobs in the design: filling, drip and decoration. The original under-a-tenner result is part of the challenge archive, not a promise that the same basket costs £10 now.
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Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
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