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PB Choc. Chip Cupcakes w/ Choc. Icing




Source of Recipe


My version of a recipe from Gourmet Magazine February 1992


Recipe Introduction


I have been messing around with this recipe for weeks. I thought the peanut butter flavor was not strong enough – that it was overpowered by the ganache. I think I have them about where I want them now, though. I doubled the peanut butter called for and have come up with a couple of variations that are very, very good. What I do is either make the cupcakes with peanut butter chips (note: do NOT get the store brand – not peanut buttery enough) or with the chocolate chips. If I do the peanut butter chips, I use the choclate ganache, if I do them with chocolate chips, I use the peanut butter ‘ganache’.


List of Ingredients




CUPCAKES:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 ½ t. baking powder
½ c. firmly packed dark brown sugar
½ c. chunky peanut butter
3 T. unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
½ t. vanilla
½ c. milk
½ c. semisweet chocolate chips or peanut butter chips

CHOCOLATE GANACHE:
¾ c. semisweet chocolate chips
¼ c. heavy cream, scalded

PEANUT BUTTER ‘GANACHE’:
¾ c. peanut butter chips
¼ c. heavy cream, scalded


Recipe



Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

CUPCAKES:
In a bowl whisk together the flour, the baking powder, and a pinch of salt. In another bowl with an electric mixer cream together the brown sugar, the peanut butter, and the butter and beat in the egg and the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition, and stir in 1/2 cup of the chips. Divide the batter among 12 paper-lined 1/2-cup muffin tins and bake the cupcakes in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Turn the cupcakes out onto a rack and let them cool completely.

GANACHE:
In another bowl combine the remaining 3/4 cup chips and the cream, scalded, let the chips soften, and whisk the mixture until it is smooth. Let the icing cool completely, whisk it until it is fluffy, and spread it on the cupcakes.

Makes 12 cupcakes.