Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

I made these for a going away party for one of my best friends last night.  Kind of a bitter-sweet night.  We had so much fun but it's never easy saying goodbye.

This is a Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake with a Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting (say that 5 times fast), topped with a Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch.  If I had had the time, I would have bought the new Reese's Minis and topped it with that.  But I didn't and I had Cap'n Crunch in my pantry!  Someone made the comment at the party that you know that if it has Cap'n Crunch on it, it's good.  I liked hearing that.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake:
1 Devil's Food Cake Mix
Ingredients on box
1/2 - 1 cup Peanut Butter, depending on how much you like.
I used 1/2 cup and thought it was perfect.  I wanted the chocolate to still be the main flavor.

Bake according to directions on box.

Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting:
1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter, room temperature
2 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 - 1 cup of creamy Peanut Butter (again, you decide how much you like)
4 cups Powdered Sugar
2 Tbsp Milk, if you need to make it a little thinner.  I actually like the consistency that it was.  Perfect for piping.

Carson's Kindergarten Graduation Cake/Cupcakes

There are always things that I wish I could have done better but I do love how this turned out.
However, the one thing I really wish would have worked was that I planned on having fondant stars on wires sticking out of the top of the cake.  But apparently the wires that I used weren't strong enough and of course I didn't put them in until last minute so I didn't have enough time to properly fix the problem so I ended up just putting the fondant stars on top of the cake to cover the holes that I had made with the wires.

I used my pudding cupcake recipe and my marshmallow fondant recipe

Me and the graduate, Carson.

My husband cut out the wood for me to make the cupcake stand.  He said he felt like he was on Cupcake Wars.  We would make a good team on that show.

Jr. Mint Cupcakes

Sorry for the recipe overload today. I was having such a hard time last week and then I did all of this and needed to put them up.

I've already put this recipe on my blog but I made them again and they're pretty cute so I wanted to add the pictures.
Click here for the recipe.

Pudding Cupcakes

Pudding Cupcakes:
1 Box Devils Food Cake Mix
4 Eggs
1 Cup Veg. Oil
1/2 Cup Water
1 Small Box Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
1 Cup Sour Cream

Topping:
1 Can of Chocoalte Frosting
Crushed Oreos
Marshmallow Fondant Recipe
 or
Your favorite frosting and crushed up candy bar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the cake mix, eggs, oil, water, pudding mix, and sour cream together. Scoop into paper lined muffin cups. Bake for 22-25 minutes. Let cool. Frost with chocolate frosting.
Crush Oreos and dip cupcakes in the crumbs.
Make Marshmallow Fondant Recipe. Roll out and cut out with cookie cutter. Place on cupcakes. You can also use gummy worms.

Jr. Mint Cupcakes

I got this recipe from another blog called Picky Palate

1 Box Devils Food Cake Mix
4 Eggs
1 Cup Veg. Oil
1/2 Cup Water
1 Small Box Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Cup Chocolate Chips
1 12 oz. Box Jr. Mints
1 Can of Vanilla, Cream Cheese, or Chocoalte Frosting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the cake mix, eggs, oil, water, pudding mix, sour cream, and chocolate chips together. Scoop into paper lined muffin cups. Press 3 Jr. Mints into the center of each one. Bake for 22-25 minutes. Let cool completely, frost, and top with another Jr. Mint.