Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, in chunks
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken up
• 1/2 granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 powdered sugar
• 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter (get the kid's stuff)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 and line a standard cupcake tin with papers.
• 2 whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• 3 put butter and chocolate in a bowl over boiling water and stir until melted. remove and let cool slightly.
• 4 whisk into chocolate mixture the granulated sugar.
• 5 add eggs, and stir until smooth. add vanilla.
• 6 lastly, stir in flour mixture.
• 7 in a separate bowl make the peanut butter mixture by combining all ingredients and stirring until smooth.
• 8 assemble cupcakes by spooning in 2 t of the chocolate batter into each cup.
• 9 follow this with 1 t of peanut butter.
• 10 repeat with 1 t of chocolate batter and then 1 teaspoon of peanut butter.
• 11 swirl the batter with a toothpick before baking for 30 minutes or until the point where a toothpick comes out with only a few moist crumbs.
• 12 no frosting necessary here. (or so i'm told!).