Come Together Peanut Butter Cupcake

Cupcakes

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 6 tbsp (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter, room temp
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup milk

Preheat oven to 180C.  Line muffin tin cupcs with paper cupcake liners. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar until smoothly blended and lightened in color, about 1 minute. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed during mixing. Mix in egg. Add vanilla and beat for 1 minute or until batter smooth. On low speed, add the flour mixture in 3 additions and the milk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with the flour mixture and mixing until the flour is incorporated and the batter looks smooth. Fill each liner with a generous 1/4 cup of batter, to about 1/3 inch below the top of the liner. Bake just until the tops feel firm and are lightly browned and a toothpic inserted in the center comes out clean, about 22 minutes. There will be cracks on the top. Cool cupcakes for 10 minutes in the pan on wire rack.

Recipe here.

Chocolate ganache

• 100g dark chocolate
• 100ml double cream
• 50g chopped peanuts

When the cupcakes are cool, break the chocolate for the icing into little pieces and add them to the cream in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, remove from the heat and then whisk - by hand or electrically - till thick and smooth. Ice the cupcakes, smoothing the tops with the back of a spoon, and decorate with peanuts

Recipe here.