Chocolate Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting

I have been wanting to make Chocolate Cupcakes With. Peanut. Butter! Frosting!! for awhile, so when I heard my friend was having a b-day party and she was into that combination I jumped at the occasion. Then I realized two additional friends had birthdays that week, so it was time to get busy.

I'm not so secretly in love with Martha Stewart, so I made her One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes. I made the version from her Baking Handbook- it's a little bit different and calls for a slightly larger quantity of ingredients which worked with my plan of having enough cupcakes for all of my friends.

After filling the cupcake liners to what I believed was 2/3 full, I was horrified when I checked the oven. The cupcakes had risen over the edges and combined to form a cake mass over the entire pan! When it was finally time to take them out, I had to cut each cupcake out of it's blanket. So... that batch ended up at the karaoke bar where people couldn't see the edges of their cupcake. A few batches later and I had the proper amount of batter figured out.

Time for Peanut Butter Frosting. I used a recipe I found online, and I would totes make it again.

Peanut Butter Frosting

• 2 cups confectioner’s sugar


• 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature


• pinch salt


• 1/2 creamy peanut butter


• 2 Tbs milk

Beat together sugar, butter and salt until creamy. Add peanut butter, beating well. Add milk and beat until smooth and creamy. Gradually add confectioners/powered sugar. I used crunchy peanut butter and it was still good.

I had to make 2 batches- this probably is also because I stuffed these cupcakes. WHAT? It's true.

Stuff Your Cupcake

Defy physics and get frosting into a decorating bag. Get yourself some tips- I picked up this cute kit from Joann's. Because I had used chunky peanut butter, I had to use the widest tip in the kit. Then, simply push the tip into the cupcake, a quick squeeze, then spiral to frost the cupcake.

I think "Simply" is one of the funniest words that can be in a recipe so I added it in there. The first few cupcakes looked a little weird- good thing they were headed for that dimly lit Karaoke bar.

Fun!!!