Flourless Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing

ByShashi CharlesUpdated on August 11, 2025

A flourless chocolate cake with peanut butter icing and a decadent chocolate “ganache”. This seven-ingredient cake is delicious served topped with some raspberries and bananas!

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In my humble opinion, chocolate + peanut butter = a marriage made in heaven.

Though chocolate and peanut butter have been enjoyed here in the States for more years than I have circled the sun, my love affair with the combination started about 5 years ago.

Growing up, I never had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; in fact, I don’t recall ever having a peanut butter and chocolate cup back then, either.

When I came to Atlanta to attend college, I was always puzzled by the jars of peanut butter my roommates worked their spoons through.

But, a few years ago, I finally gave in to curiosity and grabbed a jar of peanut butter to add to my oatmeal.

As fate would have it, a few chocolate chips fell off of a chocolate oatmeal muffin I had made for my daughter, and landed in my oatmeal! While I don’t believe in love at first sight…this was LOVE at first bite!

As my daughter and I have a nasty sweet tooth, I try to come up with some somewhat better-for-us treats.
After trying Paul Hollywood’s Flourless Almond Chocolate Cake, I figured I would make some adaptations, and that’s what led to this delicious Flourless Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing.

This cake isn’t the prettiest (I think I am gonna need to sign up for some cake decorating classes soon). What this cake is is a simple flourless chocolate cake. No oat flour, no rice flour, no flour – period. Just eggs, cocoa, brown sugar, melted dark chocolate, and butter (and some vanilla and salt – which are optional).

Enjoy this cake with a cup of coffee, a tall glass of cold milk, or a milkshake.

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I have substituted coconut oil for butter in some versions – with the result being a less dense, though still tasty, cake.

The icing on this is simply a peanut butter, confectioners sugar, and coconut oil concoction – topped with some decadent chocolate and coconut oil “ganache”.

My daughter suggested topping this with some fruit, to make it seem that this would be truly “better-for-us”, but those bananas and raspberries certainly upped the taste factor of this cake!

Flourless Peanut-Butter & Chocolate Cake

If you happen to be just as psyched as I am about chocolate + peanut butter, please check out these other fabulous chocolate and peanut butter recipes by fellow bloggers! Don’t worry, I won’t think you are psycho to make them and eat them all – unless you don’t invite me over!

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