Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

A Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcake recipe is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper cups or aluminum cups. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake deco are common on cupcakes. The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simms. Not to be confused with muffin, cupcakes generally are more moist as well as comes with frostings on top. Chocolate and peanut butter, a combination which can be considered as staple diet in certain generations are sure to please your tastebuds and hunger in more than one ways.

Below is a recipe showing you how to bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Recipe
370 gm Soft Flour
300 gm Sugar
115 gm Peanut Butter
3 tsbp Cocoa Powder
3 1/2tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
3 nos Whole Egg
300 ml Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence

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Method
1) Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
2) Using a whisk, mix for about 30 seconds at medium speed until you get a smooth batter.
3) Once smooth whisk at higher speed for about 3 minutes till a little fluffy.
4) Spoon batter into baking cups or paper cups till 3/4 full and bake in oven at 180C (356F) for 20 to 25 minutes till inserted skewer comes out clean.
5) For the frosting, mix 1 tsp instant coffee into 250gm of butter cream. (It can be any flavour of your choice)
6) Decorate Chocolate Peanut cupcakes and serve.

Recipe makes 18 X 2 1/2" (6 cm) Paper Cups