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Chocolate Peanut Butter Ganache Cupcakes
Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate ganache When I was a kid, my favorite part of valentine’s day was getting tons and tons of chocolate and sugary candies to eat all day at school. There is no such thing as too much chocolate in my opinion. These cupcakes are a great chocolatey treat for Valentine’s day or otherwise. I adapted a recipe found here. These would be great with another filling (coconut, raspberry, custard, etc.) if peanut butter isn’t your style. Ingredients: 1.5 C Cake flour (sifted) 1/2 C butter 1.5 C sugar 1 t. baking soda 1/4 t. baking powder 1 t. salt 1/2 C unsweetened cocoa powder…
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Be mine (Valentines Day sugar cookies)
In my book Valentine’s day is just a good excuse to eat tons of sweets and chocolate and drink pretty girly pink cocktails. Here is the recipe for some sugar cookies (that my lab is getting to try) Ingredients: 2.5 C Flour (All-purpose) 2 C sugar 1 C butter (at room temp) 1 T vanilla 1/2 t baking powder 1 t baking soda 1 egg 4 T buttermilk Frosting (I will give a few variations of frosting recipes in an upcoming post!) Recipe: 1. Preheat oven to 350 F 2. Cream together butter, sugar, vanilla, and then add in the egg and beat on low. 3. Add in all dry ingredients slowly to mixer and combine 4. Add…
