Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Crumble

Peanuts and peanut butter are always in my pantry, thanks to my husband's love for all thing peanuts. So, when he asked me why I hadn't baked anything with peanuts/peanut butter yet, I had to rectify my oversight one weekend.

And this cake was born. Peanut butter features both inside the batter and in the crumbly topping. And for an extra notch of decadence, there's chocolate chips as well. My husband wants to marry this cake and live with it forever.

Ingredients:

1. 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
2. 1/2 cup sugar
3. 1/2 cup honey
4. 2 cups all purpose flour
5. 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
6. 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
7. 1/2 teaspoon salt
8. 2 eggs, at room temperature
9. 3/4 cup buttermilk
10. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
11. 1/4 cup peanut butter

Topping:

1. 3/4 cup sugar
2. 2 tablespoons flour
3. 1/2 cup peanut butter
4. 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 13 by 9 inch baking pan 
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in honey until well mixed
3. Add eggs and beat until mixed
4. Add vanilla extract and peanut butter and beat
5. Mix dry ingredients separately - flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt
6. Starting with the dry ingredients and ending with it, alternately add the dry ingredients and buttermilk to the butter-sugar-honey-eggs-peanut butter mixture and mix until just combined
7. Transfer batter to pan and smooth the top
8. Prepare the crumble topping - with your fingers, break down and mix - sugar, flour and peanut butter until it forms a even mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips
9. Evenly spread the crumble topping on top of the batter. Bake for 25-30 minutes until a tester comes out almost clean. 
10. Let it cool and cut into squares and serve