Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
I’ve been tinkering with my chocolate cupcake recipe lately, because my original one, while delicious, made slightly too much batter for 4 cupcake liners. I love the new version I’ve come up with because it has even more chocolate flavor. I hope my niece and nephews approve this recipe–they’re my biggest fans and they are the true authorities on cupcakes!
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Makes 4 cupcakes.
Ingredients
For the cupcakes:
- 2½ ounces bittersweet chocolate (60% cacao)
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 6 tablespoons unbleached flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¼ + ⅛ teaspoon vanilla
For the frosting:
- 3 ounces cream cheese (I used light), at room temperature
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°. Place 4 paper cupcake liners in a muffin tin.
- In a small bowl, add the chocolate and canola oil. Microwave on 30 second pulses, stirring between each pulse, until chocolate is completely melted. Set aside to cool slightly.
- In a medium bowl, add the flour and baking powder and stir with a fork to combine.
- To the chocolate mixture, whisk in the sugar, followed by the egg and vanilla. Whisk this mixture together very well. Add all of the flour at once and stir with a spoon or spatula to combine.
- Divide the batter between the cupcake liners and bake the cupcakes for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes before moving the cupcakes to a wire cooling rack.
- To make the frosting: In a medium bowl, add all ingredients and beat together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes). Once the cupcakes have cooled, frost and serve.
This recipe makes 4 cupcakes? How perfect is that! It sounds delicious
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four cupcakes, oh how cool ..perfect for portion control…
sweetlife
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yum! did you have trouble mixing that little frosting in your mixer?
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Christina Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 7:22 am
Hi Lauren,
No, I used a small bowl and my hand mixer. I imagine if you were trying to use a stand mixer, it would be difficult. Did that happen to you?
Christina
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Heather Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I just mixed the frosting in a small bowl with a spoon. It probably would be prettier with a hand mixer, but it mixed up fine and tasted great.
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Happy Birthday! Get your eat on!!!
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I was just working on a post for this weekend for peanut butter cup cupcakes, which are basically a chocolate cupcake with a peanut butter cup and peanut butter frosting. Great minds must think alike…
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Tim–thanks! Hows it goin? Hows San Anton treating you?
Laura–Yes they do! I can’t wait to see your version with peanut butter cups in it! Yum!
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i love the idea that this makes only 4 cupcakes! yay! thanks sweetie:)
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Love love LOVE peanut butter and chocolate!!! So perfect that it yields just 4 muffins. I need responsible supervision when in the presence of a dozen cupcakes like this
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Just letting you know that the recipe on Tasty Kitchen is missing the instructions. Perhaps you could edit it? I’m glad you have it on your website.
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These look great! I’m going to make them today for me and a friend. Just a head’s up, your directions do not include the vanilla–I’m assuming you add it in with the sugar and the egg, though.
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It’s a miserable, rainy day, complete with thunder storms and lightning. To complete the mood, the only outing we had today was to go to a funeral. Then I Stumbled! across this fabulous website and recipe. I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to post this recipe on my website, and, of course credit you and put a link to your website!
Thanks for lifting my spirits!
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Ack! What did I do wrong?! These blew up. BUT…they were delicious. Had a wonderful little crust on the top. And I didn’t make the frosting because I was sans cream cheese, but they were great with just peanut butter smeared on them lol. Thanks!
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Christina Reply:
October 19th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Aww, honey! So sorry to hear that! How’s your oven temp?
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Yesterday I made the chocPB bars, and today I made these. It’s tough to say which I liked more! Deeeeeeelicious.
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