Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Holy HELL! I'm back, people :) Kind of, anyway. During my hiatus from the baking world, I realized just how much I freakin' missed it so I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things. What better way than starting off with a new recipe?

And look at that, it's not even Tuesday :)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes:

1 package chocolate cake mix

1 1/4 cups of water

1/2 cup of peanut butter

1/3 cups of canola oil

3 eggs

24 mini peanut butter cups

Frosting:

6 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

2/3 cups of heavy wipping cream

1/3 cup of peanut butter

Additional mini peanut butter cups, chopped

Directions:

1.) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line muffin tins with papers.

2.) In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, water, peanut butter, oil and eggs.

3.) Beat on a low speed for 30 seconds, then beat on medium for 2 minutes or until smooth.

4.) Fill the paper-lined cups half full.

5.) Place a peanut butter cup in the center of each cupcake.

6.) Cover each with 1 tablespoon of batter.

7.) Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

Frosting

1.) Place chocolate in a small bowl.

2.) In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil.

3.) Pour cream over chocolate and whisk until smooth.

4.) Stir in the peanut butter.

5.) Cool, stirring occasionally, to room temperature or until ganache reaches a spreading consistency.

6.) Spread over cupcakes and immediately sprinkle with additional peanut butter cups.

Notes: This makes a very yummy cupcake (so I'm told), however, it does make a bit of a mess when being eaten. Apparently, thanks to the peanut butter cup in the center, it makes the cupcake heavy so it falls apart! But a good recipe nonetheless.

Also, for anyone who misses my amazingly funny (har har) blog posts, you can find me over at See Britt Run. That's what I now consider my "main blog" and I post there pretty frequently! Hope to see you guys there :)