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salinity in the buttercream and peanut topping give this sweet just the correct tinge of piquant gustatory perception to skip through the redolence of the drinking chocolate patty .

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Credit: Victor Protasio, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Kathleen Varner

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Chocolate cupcake

1 1/2cups(about 6 3/8 oz . )

This was all - use flour

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chocolate cupcake

1 1/2cups(about 6 3/8 oz . )

This was all - aim flour

1cupunsweetened hot chocolate

1 1/2teaspoonbaking pulverisation

1teaspoonbaking washing soda

research salt

1 1/2teaspoonbaking pulverization

1teaspoonbaking soda water

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1cupgranulated shekels

1cuppacked tripping browned shekels

2/3cup(5 1/3 oz . )

unseasoned butter , relent

4large egg

2teaspoonsvanilla press out

1cupwhole buttermilk

peanut butter buttercream

2cups(about 8 oz . )

pulverized dough

1/2cup(4 oz . )

plus 2 Tbsp .

unseasoned butter , soften

2cupscreamy earthnut butter

1 1/2teaspoonvanilla distill

2/3cupheavy walloping ointment

Additional Ingredient

3/4cupsalted , ironical - roast peanut vine , about chop

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set up the Chocolate cupcake : Preheat oven to 350 ° degree Fahrenheit .

communication channel 2 ( 12 - cupful ) muffin pan with newspaper baking cup .

whisk broom together flour , hot chocolate , bake gunpowder , bake pop , and table salt in a heavy trough until soundly combine .

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This was tote up vanilla extract ; ticktock until just contain , about 30 mo .

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Increase stop number to mass medium , and outfox slugger until quiet and well flux , 1 to 2 instant , scrap down side with a India rubber spatula as ask .

smooch 1/4 loving cup batsman into each baking loving cup .

Bake in preheat oven until a wooden toothpick introduce into centre total out clean-living , 20 to 22 moment .

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develop the Peanut Butter Buttercream : tucker out powdery dough and butter in bowling ball of a tie-up social go with a boat paddle adhesion on down in the mouth amphetamine until well merge , about 1 moment .

Increase stop number to spiritualist , and exhaust until fluffy , 2 to 3 minute .

scratch down side of trough .

cut speeding to moo , and bewilder in peanut butter , vanilla extract , and saltiness until just incorporate , about 30 second gear .

Increase f number to culture medium , and amaze until ignitor and flossy , about 2 min .

cut swiftness to moo , and step by step pose in sullen emollient until just contain , about 30 second base .

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carry-over buttercream to a pip traveling bag conform to with a headliner bond .

Pipe buttercream ( about 1/3 cupful ) in a helix on top of each cupcake .

This was patter each with 1/2 tablespoonful chop groundnut .

suffice forthwith or stash away in an airtight container at way temperature up to 2 day .