For a friend's birthday/congratulations on having a baby boy! gathering a work, I made chocolate cake cupcakes with peanut butter chips topped with a...wait for it...peanut butter buttercream frosting...mmmm!What goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate? Not much. So I was happy to try out the combination. I made a standard chocolate cake batter with coco powder/flour/eggs/sugar etc. Then for the peanut butter frosting, I had thought about making it a chocolate peanut butter frosting--but the thought of trying to dye that blue kind of scared me. So I went for simple. Just your standard vanilla frosting, 2 tbs of peanut butter blended in and voila! The ymmiest frosting ever.
I didn't pile on the frosting on this one becuase it was RICH! plus with the chocolate cake, I didn't want people going into sugar comas at work--not so good. So I just added enough frosting so you'd get some in every bite.
I was glad the birthday girl and mommy to be enjoyed them (she had two--one for her and one for baby :) ).
I still have to try out the cherry coke cupcakes once cherries come into season here. Wondering how that one will turn out, I also have a snickerdoodle cupcake on the request list as well.
So many flavors, so little time.
