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Dark Chocolate-Peanut Butter Dream Cupcakes
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Skruzel
11 years ago
How to make it
- First, make Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 F and line 24 cupcake cups with liners
- Bring the Guinness and butter to a simmer over med heat
- Add the cocoa powder and whisk until the mixture is smooth
- Remove from heat and cool slightly
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt
- Beat the eggs and sour cream on medium speed with electric mixer until combined and fluffy.
- Add the Guinness-chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and beat just to combine.
- Slowly add the flour mixture and beat on slow speed only slightly; using a rubber spatula, fold the batter until completely combined.
- Divide the batter among the cupcake liners.
- Bake for 17 minutes
- Cool the cupcakes on a wire rack
- While the cupcakes are cooling: make the frostings:
- Peanut Butter Buttercream:
- In a large bowl: beat butter and peanut butter until fluffy
- Add vanilla extract
- Add confectioners sugar 1/2 cup at a time until creamy and sweet enough for your taste
- Add the half & half and beat again
- Scrape the frosting into the corner of a small ziplock baggie
- Chocolate Buttercream:
- In a large bowl: beat butter and vanilla extract and half & half until fluffy
- Add cocoa power and beat gently
- Add confectioners sugar 1/2 cup at a time until creamy and sweet enough for your taste
- Scrape the frosting into the corner of a separate small ziplock baggie
- To frost:
- Place both of the small ziplock bags side by side into a larger ziplock bag so that the corners of the small bags are lined up into a single corver of the large bag. Cut the corner off with scissors (make sure to cut through all 3 corners)
- Roll down the top of the gallon bag and pipe frosting onto the cooled cupcakes in a circular motion. See Photo
- Note: You can also use the frosting mixture to fill the cupcakes if you wish
- Chocolate Covered Pretzels: See Photo
- Boil a small saucepan of water
- Turn down to simmer and place a metal bowl on top of the pot so that it is just over the boiling water
- Add 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips to the metal bowl and stir constantly until melted.
- Dip pretzels one at a time and place on parchments paper to set.
- And last, but not least.... Top each cupcakes with a chocolate covered pretzel and enjoy!
Piping the two frostings together
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