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Rocky Road Bundt Cake! Alternating swirls of peanut butter and chocolate cake with a marshmallow glaze topped off with some candied peanuts.

I don’t usually toot my own horn, but does this cake look amazing or what??

I was brainstorming ideas with Ryan a few weeks ago, about this month’s Bundt Bakers theme: Rocky Road, hosted by the lovely Laura from Baking in Pyjamas. Did you know that the ingredients in Rocky Road vary depending on where you live?? I decided to stick with the American version since it’s the one I grew up with, even though I don’t think I’ve ever had a Rocky Road anything. Crazy, right?

Anyhow, I knew I wanted chocolate and peanut butter to be the focus, but I didn’t want to do a chocolate bundt since I did one last month. I also wanted to use the Heritage Bundt pan, as I thought the spirals would make for perfect “roads” and go with this theme.

We tossed around a few ideas, but nothing was exciting, and then Ryan said the words just as I was thinking them… “you know what would be cool, is if you could alternate chocolate and peanut butter spirals”. Challenge accepted.

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This wasn’t exactly difficult to do, but if you’re a perfectionist like me, you’re gonna have a bit of a hard time trying to make it look perfect.

After making the peanut butter cake batter, I split it in half and added cocoa powder to one of the batches. Then I filled a piping bag with each of the batters, and piped the cake batter into the spirals. I started with the lighter, peanut butter batter and filled in every other spiral, being careful to not overfill them. Really I just needed the “shell” of the cake to look right – the inside was going to be marbled anyhow. I used a skewer to nudge the batter into the thinner areas of the spirals.

Then I did the same with the chocolate batter, making sure that the edges and points where the two batters met were as clean as possible. But I also knew I’d be pouring a glaze down each crack, so I didn’t worry too much if there was some overlap. Once each spiral was filled, I layered the remaining batter in the pan and marbled it with the same skewer. (For a detailed tutorial see here).

Let me tell you, the fact that there is an odd number of spirals nearly had me rethinking this whole idea. My poor OCD. I’m hoping that you’ve gotten to this point in the post and haven’t noticed this. If you have, welcome to my world!

I patiently waited a good 15mins before I turned the cake out onto a cooling rack and removed the pan, holding my breath the entire time. Thankfully, it was perfect. Yay!

And just so you know how crazy I am… there was some noticeable (to me) flour dust on the chocolate parts of the cake from the cake release I used on the pan. So I mixed up a bit of the two cocoa powders I used (black cocoa & Dutch-processed) and used a small pastry brush to brush the cocoa onto the cake. To me, this made a HUGE difference. Ryan likely would not have even noticed the flour dust to begin with :).

Had this been an all chocolate cake, I would have dusted the pan with cocoa powder instead of flour. I could have dusted each alternating spiral with flour and cocoa, but that’s just crazy talk (it did cross my mind, but laziness prevailed).

I made an easy marshmallow glaze to drizzle into the cracks, and sprinkled the top with some chopped up candied peanuts.

Originally published on May 20, 2015