Peanut, Peanut Butter. And Cupcakes!

Ten points to you if you knew that title was a play on the childhood "Peanut Butter & Jelly" song. A classic.

The other night I made some devil's food chocolate cupcakes (I confess, it was a box mix) with white buttercream frosting (that part was from scratch). They were delicious! However, at the end I had about six extra cupcakes with not enough frosting left to cover them. I decided I wanted to try a peanut butter frosting.

I've never done that before, so I just threw one together myself. Not much can go wrong when the working ingredients are peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, and milk. At first the frosting was very very thick, almost like cookie dough. It was delicious but didn't pipe onto the cupcakes very well. I added some more milk and voila! It worked!



They looked so cute and tasted very nice. The peanut butter frosting was not overly sweet, which was a nice combination. I think however that next time I would pipe on a smaller amount, or just put on a normal layer with a knife. The swirl of frosting was very pretty but I mostly tasted peanut butter with a little chocolate, and I was going for a more moderate balance. One thing that I feel sort of adamantly about is that above all else, dessert is supposed to be delicious. Looks are secondary... the icing on the cake, if you will. Ba-dum-bum-ching!

I made them late at night but I wanted to take their picture without having to use my flash. Enter Ben with his nifty new light rig that he uses for his video projects at work! Thanks babe for making my cupcakes look so good!

PS. By the way, I have a separate blog that I was posting my crafty and baking stuff on, but in the interest of simplifying I think I'm going to dismantle that and just post all that stuff here instead. So I might switch some of the posts over so they don't get lost in cyberspace. Be prepared!