Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling are a delicious triage of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana flavor. A moist chocolate cupcake is filled with a peanut butter banana custard filling, then frosted with a peanut butter buttercream. Last week, I did a presentation at my school about this blog. My school’s kinda tiny and…
Pumpkin Mocha Cupcakes
These Pumpkin Mocha Cupcakes are not to be confused with pumpkin spice latte cupcakes. We’re turning the classic PSL cupcake formula inside out. Moist chocolate cupcakes (think Devil’s Food) are filled with a pumpkin ganache, then topped with coffee buttercream. These are not Pumpkin Spice Latte cupcakes. You’ve seen a hundred of those, flooding Pinterest…
Peanut Butter Oreo Cupcakes
Peanut Butter Oreo Cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes swirled with peanut butter and frosted with an Oreo buttercream. I cannot believe that in the almost two years of us doing this blog, we only have one Oreo recipe to show for it! I guess we don’t bake with Oreo that often, but we should because they…
Almond Joy Cupcakes with Cadbury Mini Egg Nest
I’m a sentimental person. I get aggressively nostalgic for past times, and I associate them with certain music, books, movies, tastes… This spring, I’ve been extremely nostalgic for my time in London. The trigger? Sunshine and warm weather. I’m serious. Some of the best times I spent in London happened after the cloudy skies finally…
Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes with Pretzel Frosting
Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes are my new favorite thing. Do you ever think up something wonderful that you just sort of brush aside because you think it isn’t possible? Or you don’t have the means to do it so it lies forgotten in the part of your brain home to all your brilliant ideas? For example:…
Half-Baked Cupcakes
Half-Baked Cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes with brownie batter chunks baked into them, topped with a cookie dough frosting that tastes just like eating raw cookie dough (minus the eggs!). Based on the popular Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked ice cream flavor. Sometimes you just have a stroke of brilliance you can’t let go of. It keeps…
Strawberry Raspberry White Chocolate Cupcakes
Pretty Strawberry Raspberry White Chocolate Cupcakes are naturally-flavored with pureed strawberries and raspberries. Raspberry, strawberry, and vanilla cake batter are layered in the cupcake tins to create an ombre effect, then frosted with white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. Pink is always such an under-credited color. How many people do you know who say that pink is…
Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Moist banana cupcakes with chocolate and peanut butter chips, fluffy peanut butter frosting, and a generous spoonful of rich chocolate ganache make these Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes equally perfect for dessert, breakfast, or afternoon snack. Sometimes I have trouble deciding what to bake next. Audrey and I call it “baking block.” You want to…