Name: Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 1/2 sticks of butter; 1 2/3 cup White Granulated Sugar; 1 ts Vanilla; 3 Large Eggs; 2 cups All Purpose Flour; 1 1/4 ts of baking soda; 1/4 ts of baking powder; 1 ts Salt; 2/3 cup of dark chocolate cocoa powder; 1 1/3 cup hot water; Frosting; 1 cup butter; 1 cup peanut butter; 3 cups sifted powder sugar; 2 ts Vanilla Extract; 2 TB Milk; Chocolate Ganache and peanut butter chips ((optional))

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Try this recipe for Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter frosting for an easy dessert.

Oh So Yummy.

This week I made some Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting for a friend’s birthday. I love the fact that we like the same flavors so it made it easy. There is just something about this peanut butter frosting that I could eat it for dinner or the main course. I mean it is protein right?

Her birthday was over the weekend and I surprised her with a dozen cupcakes. She had some company over for her birthday so she was nice enough to share with them. I really like to give cupcakes because they are just the right size and it is like a little gift that you unwrap, just before you eat it.

How are they made?

For the cupcakes I used Hershey’s Dark Chocolate cocoa powder and then topped it off with peanut butter frosting with a chocolate ganache drizzle on top. They were really moist and they were topped with a creamy delicious frosting, and I added a peanut butter chip on top. Yum Yum.

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Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

35 mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12

Author: Candi Elm

Ingredients

1 1/2 sticks of butter
1 2/3 cup White Granulated Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
3 Large Eggs
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 1/4 ts of baking soda
1/4 ts of baking powder
1 ts Salt
2/3 cup of dark chocolate cocoa powder
1 1/3 cup hot water
Frosting
1 cup butter
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups sifted powder sugar
2 ts Vanilla Extract
2 TB Milk
Chocolate Ganache and peanut butter chips (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Line your cupcake pan with greaseproof liners.
Mix your butter and sugar in electric mixer until creamed. Add one egg at a time. Add Vanilla. Start mixing your dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Sift with a whisk. Start alternating your dry ingredients into your butter with water. Stop mixer and scrape bowl and mix again.
Bake cupcakes 18 - 20 minutes and remove from oven and cool.
Frosting:
Start mixing, butter and peanut butter, add powder sugar and vanilla. Mix all ingredients adding milk at the end and using enough to make a good consistency.
Once cool Frost cupcakes.
Add optional ganache with fork or piping bag.

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