Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes

Name: Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes
Total time: 2100 s
Yield: 33 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cup cake flour; 2 cup sugar; 3/4 cup cocoa; 2 tsp baking soda; pinch salt; 1 cup vegetable oil; 2 tsp cider vinegar; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 tsp chocolate flavoring; 2 cup cold water; 2 1/2 cup powdered sugar; 1 stick butter, soft; 3/4 cup peanut butter; 1 tbsp vanilla; 2 tbsp milk.. to thin. may need more.

kate @cook_3478240

My friend asked me to make 250 cupcakes for her child's graduation out of her grandma's cake recipe. It was too soft to hold up the frosting and lacked depth of chocolate flavor. After some tweaks and trials, Here's the end result!

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Ingredients

35 mins

33 servings

3 cupcake flour
2 cupsugar
3/4 cupcocoa
2 tspbaking soda
pinchsalt
wet ingredients
1 cupvegetable oil
2 tspcider vinegar
1 tspvanilla
1 tspchocolate flavoring
2 cupcold water
frosting
2 1/2 cuppowdered sugar
1 stickbutter, soft
3/4 cuppeanut butter
1 tbspvanilla
2 tbspmilk.. to thin. may need more.

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Steps

35 mins

1

Mix all dry ingredients well.
2

Mix all wet ingredients. Dump into dry ingredients. Mix well.
3

Fill cupcake pans 2/3 full. I use a 2 tablespoon scoop to do this quickly.
4

Bake at 350 for 19 minutes.
5

In mixer bowl beat butters together. Add vanilla. Add in sugar and Mix well. Add milk to thin frosting to desired consistency. Beat on high for 3 minutes to make it fluffy.
6

Once cool, frost cupcakes. I use a piping bag with no tip inserted to do it quickly.