Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes (Woohoo!) :-)

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Today:

Showed part one of "Nazi Occult Conspiracy" (discover channel, no less, though it sounds like something you'd read about in the 'Weekly World News').


Made Cupcakes. :-D

Woohoo! :-D

They are based on Nigella Lawson's superb and easy brownie recipe, so you know they'll be really, really good. :-)



Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350F.

Cream together:
1/4C margarine (or butter or shortening, etc)
1/4C peanut butter (I used the 'just peanuts' stuff, but I suspect any old kind will do)
1/2C granulated sugar

Beat in:
3 eggs
1/2 tbsp vanilla

Add and blend:
3/4C chocolate chips, MELTED

Stir in:
1/4 C cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder

Add:
1 C flour (I used wheat, but Amaranth, for e.g., would work - you just might need extra flour)

Blend everything together until it is nice and smooth.

Add:
1/4 C (or more) peanut butter chips (or peanuts, or a combination there-of)

Mix well.


Spoon into a well-greased muffin tin, and bake for 20 minutes (or there-abouts - it's 20 minutes for *my* oven).

Allow to cool (if possible) and serve to your adoring fans. :-)

Makes 12 muffin-sized cupcakes. (As in: You could cut them into quarters and call them two-bite brownies. ;-)



Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... They're gooooooood. :-) The peanut butter gives them an extra creaminess, I think. :-)