Did you know that this month is national peanut month? I blogged about it a bit earlier but now I am celebrating it!
Of course it helped that IronCupcake’s ingredient this month was nuts and seeds! This is my first time submitting a cupcake to IronCupcake so I’m a little nervous.
I did a yellow cupcake with snickers in the middle. On top is a peanut butter swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate drizzled on top. Mmm. I have to say these are delicious!
Here’s an inside shot:
The snickers snuck further down than I would have liked but it is still delicious!
The recipe for the cake:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of milk – I used 2%
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 fun size snickers bars
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pan with liners.
- Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Set to the side.
- Cream together the shortening and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Add the flour and milk in sections. Bit of flour first, then milk, and so on. Add vanilla and beat to a soft smooth batter.
- Cut the fun size snickers in half. They are best if frozen before baking. After you fill your liners 1/2 to 3/4 full then press your snickers piece into the middle. Make sure there is batter on top. Some of them I had to add extra batter to cover them up!
- Bake 20-30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until tester comes out clean.
- Cool, frost, enjoy!
Frosting recipe:
Ingredients:
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups room temperature unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
Directions:
- In the top of a double boiler set over simmering water, whisk together the egg whites and brown sugar together. Continue whisking until the mixture becomes too hot to touch comfortably which is about 7 to 10 minutes. Or until you can no longer feel sugar granules.
- Transfer the mixture to the electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until the egg whites hold a stiff peak or about 8 minutes.
- Add the butter about 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until incorporated.
- Add the vanilla and peanut butter and beat until combined.
- Frost!
This recipe made about 18 cupcakes nicely.
With this submission I am competing for the following:
- A Bunnycake Easter Plushie by DogboneArt.
- A whimsical piece by Cakeasaurus.
- Cupcake earings from lotsofsprinkles.
- A collection of all new printed cupcake liners, a total of 200 from Sweet Cuppin’ Cakes Cupcakery.
- A fantastic piece by Cakespy.
Also, from the corporate sponsors:
- Head Chefs by Fiesta Products.
- The book Hello Cupcake by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson.
- Jessie Steele Aprons.
- Taste of Home Books.
- a T-shirt from Upwithcupcakes.com.
- 1800flowers also sponsors Iron cupcake:Earth.
- Also thanks to Diana Evans for her help in the February challenge.
Voting begins no later than Sunday, March 29 at 8pm at No One Puts Cupcake in a Corner. Voting goes until Friday, April 3 at noon! Make sure you vote for me!
One more thing, check out the IronCupcake:Earth cuphub to become a part of the excitment!
Also, please note: I’m soooooo sorry about the missing things in the recipe and love you guys bringing it to my attention! Ugh! Thanks!
Tags: chocolate drizzle, entry, IC: Nuts & Seeds, IronCupcake, peanut butter, snickers
Wow these look delicious. Would love to try one
where is the snickers in the recipe?
Whoops! Good eye! That’s what I get for rushing the post late at night! I’ll add that in right now! Thanks!
WOW, my mouth is watering…that is just BEAUTIFUL! I found your site as Cupcakes Take The Cake found me drooling when I saw you photo. Cannot wait to try! I hope you WIN BIG!
These look good. I want to try them out tonight. I have a few questions.
I see milk in the recipe…but i don’t see it on the ingredients list! How much milk…what kind? Also, what kind of butter? and how many does this recipe make?
Thanks.
Ugh! I can’t believe this! This is the second thing I missed! I get all excited and hurry to turn it in and forget all kinds of things.
Would you believe I did the same thing when I made them and had to keep running back and forth? I’m so embarrassed!
It happens. No worries!
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Hi again. Just wanted to tell you that you forgot to say when to add the salt and baking powder in as well. : 0 I am sure you are sick of me telling you the stuff you forgot but it’s important i think. :]
Never sick of it! You know what happened, I took a recipe and tweaked it. Then I guess it was all in my head but didn’t come out while writing. I’m not usually like that! So sorry!
Hi, these cupcakes look terrific! I adore snickers, great idea. Nice to meet you! First ime on your blog and am enjoying it!
what kind of chocolate is the drizzle? It looks like chocolate syrup??
The chocolate drizzle on there is just melted chocolate that you bake with. Although, you couldn’t taste the chocolate much!
What a Delicious and Adorable cupcake!
I just made these today – the second tray is still in the oven. And I’m a little bit disappointed. They came out very salty. It could be the butter (I didn’t have unsalted on hand) so that’d be my fault, but 1 tsp. of salt seems like more than usual. Maybe once they’re iced I’ll be happier with them, but right now, they definitely need some adjustments.
The salt was used to offset the use of self rising flour. If you used salted butter instead of the shortening then you could have left the salt out of the recipe and it probably would have been good.
Hopefully they turn out good when frosted.
Hi! I made this recipe last night with my daughter, but have to agree with Heather. They were much too salty for my liking, even my daughter said so. I followed the directions perfectly especially after reading about the salty comment but they still tasted over the top salty. Any suggestions? I like the idea of salty and sweet but definitely would like advice on how to alter it slightly. The Snicker in the bottom was perfect and I liked the consistency of the cake once it was baked…thanks and thank for the post!
Do you think I could use another candy such as perhaps a miniature reeces cup?
Oh, definitely you could use a mini reeses cup! In fact I bet that would be even better than the snicker! Let me know how it turns out!