Double Dark Chocolate Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Filling Food

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and prepare a 12-cup muffin tin by lining it with cupcake liners.
• In a measuring cup, mix together the coffee and unsweetened cocoa.
• Into a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• Add the eggs, one at a time until well incorporated.
• Mix in the vanilla and coffee.
• Add half of the flour mixture and combine.
• Add half of the buttermilk and combine. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• Add remainder of flour and remaining buttermilk and thoroughly incorporate.
• With a rubber spatula, fold in the milk chocolate chips.
• Spoon into cupcake liners and fill 1/2 to 2/3 full.
• Bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the middle of each comes out clean.
• Allow to cool completely on a wire rack before filling and frosting.
• In mixing bowl, cream together the cream cheese and peanut butter.
• Mix in the confectioners' sugar.
• Add the heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time and mix until smooth and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl.
• Cream the shortening and butter together in the mixing bowl until well combined.
• Add the cocoa powder.
• Mix in the vanilla extract.
• Add half of the confectioners' sugar and combine well.
• Thoroughly mix in remaining confectioner's sugar.
• Add 4 tablespoons of milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add remaining tablespoons of milk, ONE AT A TIME until desired consistency is reached.
• If you find that the frosting is still too dry add more milk by teaspoons, not tablespoons at a time. If too moist add more confectioners' sugar by one tablespoon at a time.
• Insert an apple corer or cupcake corer into the middle of each cupcake and remove.
• Pipe enough peanut butter filling into each hole to fill and spread a layer of the filling on the top of each cupcake as well.
• Using the Wilton 1M Open Star decorating tip, frost each cupcake with the chocolate buttercream.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE-PEANUT BUTTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 12 regular-size muffin cups with paper baking cups.
• In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, peanut butter, sour cream, egg and egg white with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Beat in remaining ingredients except powdered sugar on low speed just until mixed. Divide among muffin cups.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Sprinkle tops with powdered sugar.

DOUBLE DARK CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH PEANUT BUTTER FILLING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350° and position 2 racks in the lower and middle third of the oven. Line 24 muffin cups with paper or foil liners.
• Put the cocoa powder in a medium heatproof bowl. Add the boiling water and whisk until a smooth paste forms. Whisk in the buttermilk until combined. In a medium bowl, sift the flour with the baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat 1 1/2 sticks of the butter with the granulated sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs and vanilla, then beat in the dry ingredients in 2 batches, alternating with the cocoa mixture. Carefully spoon the cupcake batter into the lined muffin cups, filling them about two-thirds full. Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, or until the cupcakes are springy. Let the cupcakes cool in the pans for 5 minutes, then transfer them to wire racks to cool completely.
• In a medium bowl, beat the peanut butter with the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter until creamy. Sift the confectioners' sugar into the bowl and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Spoon all but 3 tablespoons of the peanut butter filling into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch star tip. Holding a cupcake in your hand, plunge the tip into the top of the cake, pushing it about 3/4 inch deep. Gently squeeze the pastry bag to fill the cupcake, withdrawing it slowly as you squeeze; you will feel the cupcake expand slightly as you fill it. Scrape any filling from the top of the cupcake and repeat until all of the cupcakes are filled.
• In a small saucepan, bring the heavy cream to a simmer. Off the heat, add the semisweet chocolate to the cream and let stand for 5 minutes, then whisk the melted chocolate into the cream until smooth. Let the chocolate icing stand until slightly cooled and thickened, about 15 minutes. Dip the tops of the cupcakes into the icing, letting the excess drip back into the pan. Transfer the cupcakes to racks and let stand for 5 minutes. Dip the tops of the cupcakes again and transfer them to racks. Spoon the remaining 3 tablespoons of peanut butter filling into the pastry bag and pipe tiny rosettes on the tops of the cupcakes.

PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners (for a total of 24 cupcakes).
• For the peanut butter filling: In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and peanut butter until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the granulated sugar. Beat in the vanilla and eggs, scrape down the sides of the bowl and continue to mix until smooth. Set aside.
• For the chocolate cupcake batter: In a medium-sized mixing bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream 1 cup of the granulated sugar with the oil. Slowly add the vanilla extract and egg yolks to the creamed sugar while mixing, and beat until incorporated.
• In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer with a whisk attachment, whip the egg whites and remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar until firm peaks form. Do not over-whip.
• Turn the stand mixer on the lowest speed. Add the dry ingredients and milk, alternating between the two and scraping down the sides after each addition. Mix on medium for 1 minute. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the whipped egg whites into the chocolate batter in three parts.
• Scoop one scoop of the chocolate cupcake batter into each cupcake liner. Top with one scoop of the peanut butter filling. The liners will be about two-thirds full. Bake until the cupcakes are nicely domed and the chocolate bounces back from gentle pressure, about 22 minutes; the peanut butter filling will not be firm. Remove from the pans and cool.
• For the frosting: In the bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, whip the cream, confectioners' sugar and vanilla on medium speed until stiff peaks form. Be careful not to over-whip the cream.
• Ice the cooled cupcakes with the frosting using a pastry bag fitted with the desired tip.