Next in Aldi's Strawberry-ful recipe series, recreate the supermarket's show-stopping Peanut Butter and Homemade Strawberry Jam Cake. Combining the crunchy peanut butter with the sticky yet sweet strawberry jam, this dessert is bursting with sensational flavour, and texture. Once baked to fluffy perfection, enjoy a slice with a splash of warm custard and a rich americano coffee.

Rather than using a ready-made jam for the filling, you can make your very own by following Aldi's exquisite homemade recipe. All you need are some of Aldi's fresh British strawberries, caster sugar and a dash of zesty lemon juice, and your own homemade jam will be bubbling away in no time. Once melted and brought to the boil, this will be ready to use in your cake recipe, with any leftovers perfect for spreading on some buttery toast in the morning!

Aldi's Peanut Butter and Homemade Strawberry Jam Cake

Homemade Strawberry Jam

Ingredients

1kg Strawberries – hulled and washed

850g The Pantry caster sugar

75ml The Pantry lemon juice

1 x eating apple – cut into quarters

Method

Crush the Strawberries with a large fork – put into a Maslin or large heavy bottom pan along with the sugar, lemon juice and the quartered apple.

Slowly heat until the sugar has melted, increase the heat and bring to the boil.

Boil until you reach 105⁰C with a cooking thermometer, if you don't have one then boil the mixture hard for about 15 minutes.

Remove the apple quarters then put the jam into 4 sterilised jars. If you are going to refrigerate then no need to sterilise the jars.

The jam will be soft and spreadable.

Peanut Butter and Homemade Strawberry Jam Cake

Ingredients

25g Grandessa Crunchy Peanut Butter

140g Homemade Strawberry Jam (recipe above)

240g The Pantry Plain Flour

½ tsp The Pantry Baking Powder

¼ tsp The Pantry Bicarbonate Soda

1 x tsp Salt 

50g Butter

3 x Large Eggs

170g Caster Sugar

60g Dark Brown Sugar

100ml Milk

1 x tsp Vanilla Extract

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.

Line the base and sides of the tin with the baking paper.

Sift the flour, baking powder, soda and salt into a bowl.

Put the peanut butter, butter and sugars into a food processor – pulse for about 5 minutes until blended.

Add the eggs one at a time, blending as you do.

Add half the flour and continue to blend.

Then add the milk and the vanilla essence and pulse again.

Add the rest of the flour – blend again until well mixed.

Pour half the mixture into the tin and then put the jam on top in dollops and cover with the rest of the cake mix.

Bake in the oven for 60-65 minutes, until a skewer stuck in the middle comes out clean.

Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

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Notes to editors:

Aldi is Britain's fifth largest supermarket with 880 stores and more than 34,000 employees.

Aldi is attracting hundreds of thousands of new customers every year with its range of exclusive brands, passing low operating costs on to customers in the form of low prices.

The supermarket believes in making every day amazing and that's why every single day Aldi delivers on the best possible value for millions of families throughout the UK and Ireland across everything from award-winning fresh produce to world class gin.

Aldi won't be beaten on price; consistently racks up award after award for quality; treats its suppliers with fairness and respect and recognises the responsibility of supporting valued institutions such as Team GB to demonstrate the importance of health and wellness. That's Aldi. That's everyday amazing. The reason they do this? Because Aldi believes that everyone should have access to fresh, healthy, affordable food…it's a right, not a privilege.

 The company's current achievements and initiatives include:

• Aldi is the UK's lowest priced supermarket. Research released by Which? showed that Aldi is 19% cheaper, on average, than the Big Four supermarkets. It tracked the price of more than a hundred items at the UK's eight biggest supermarkets throughout March 2020.
• Aldi has a five-year partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust – its fundraising target of £5m will go towards helping the trust to reach out to every young person with cancer in the UK. 
• Aldi's rates of pay are significantly higher than the Government's National Living Wage and also above the Living Wage Foundation's recommended national rates. Store Assistants receive a minimum hourly rate of £9.40 nationally and £10.90 in London. 
• Aldi is the official supermarket partner of Team GB and ensures every member of the team has access to fresh healthy Aldi food via monthly shopping vouchers, and that 1.2 million 5-14 year olds will learn about the benefits of cooking fresh, healthy food via its Get Set to Eat Fresh education initiative. Aldi has been a partner since 2015 and has extended its commitment to the 2024 Olympic games in Paris.
• In June 2019, for the sixth consecutive year, Aldi was ranked the best-performing supermarket for compliance with the Groceries Supply Code of Practice, underlining its commitment to maintaining fair, predictable and sustainable prices within its supply chain.

Full details of Aldi's awards and achievements are detailed at www.aldi.co.uk/awards