So a friend and I decided to participate in a 'Cupcake Wars' event similar to the show on Food Network. You could win for taste, presentation, creativity or all three. We decided to make peanut butter cupcakes with homemade peanut butter frosting with chocolate ganache. They turned out heavenly, and we were the only peanut butter flavored cupcake at the event. We did not win (despite many compliments) and a buzz going around the event about our yummy cupcake.
The recipe was very simple and we eyeballed most of it (and thankfully they turned out amazing). If you're interested in making these divine cupcakes here was our method:
1 box of Betty Crocker vanilla cake mix
A jar of peanut butter
We just added about 2 cups of peanut butter to the vanilla cake mix and kept tasting it for measure.
For the frosting and ganache, we followed the recipe at this creative site Ming Makes Cupcakes. We only used her recipe for the toppings and they came out pretty well. See cupcake #17.
If you'd like to compare ours to Ming's, I'd say it came out looking pretty identical. I was proud.
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