Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

17 March 2013

I have 10 weeks left before my final deadlines for my degree, hence why the blog has taken a backseat lately. I've even taken photos for blog posts but just not had chance to write them up! But I've given myself the day off from studies today and took the opportunity to do some therapeutic baking.

I've been perfecting this recipe for a little while now, the frosting has always been a perfect peanutty soft whippyness but the sponge has sometimes been a little bit dry. This time I used a recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery which has quite a bit of milk in it and it's much more moist. Perfection!




 Recipe

Ingredients 

For the Cupcakes (recipe taken from the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook)

100g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
140g caster sugar
1 1/2tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
40g unsalted butter, at room temperature
120ml whole milk
1 egg
1/4tsp vanilla extract

For the Frosting

125g butter, at room temperature
125g peanut butter (I used a combination of smooth and crunchy)
250g icing sugar, sifted
drop of vanilla extract
whole milk

Method

Preheat the oven to 170c or Gasmark 3

Put the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, salt and butter in your mixer and beat on slow speed until everything is combined.

Whisk the milk, egg and vanilla extract together in a jug and add half to the flour mixture, mixing until smooth. Add the other half and mix again but don't over mix.

Spoon the mixture into paper cases and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the sponge bounces back.

Meanwhile to make the frosting, cream the butter and peanut butter together with the vanilla extract. Add the sifted icing sugar (to avoids lumps) and mix until smooth, adding milk to reach the desired consistency (you don't want it too runny if you're going to pipe it).

When they are cooled, spread or pipe the frosting onto the cakes.









Let me know if you try it and enjoy your Sunday. 

10 comments:

  1. Peanut butter and chocolate is the perfect combination! I love the Hummingbird cupcake recipes- they come out lovely and moist, so much nicer than a lot of other recipes.

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  2. MMM, these look good and I LOVE PB & chocolate together. I need to start making some desserts!

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    1. They were soo good - they didn't last long!

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  3. Wow, these look soooo good and I bet they tasted amazing.

    Lou

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  4. I feel you girl! I'm been mad busy lately too and have a few photos for blog post but not had the chance to blog about them yet.

    Baking is definitely therapeutic. The cupcakes look delish! Not a fan of peanut but will probably make it vanilla frosting. Will trial the recipe in the weekend. Can't wait! Getting a bit fed up with easter eggs, ha! xo

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  5. These look so yummy, I definitely need to make some!

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