peanut butter filled cupcakes.

peanut butter filled vanilla bean cupcakes with dark chocolate icing.

whew. that’s a mouthful.

literally.

ingredients:

• 1 cup organic sugar
• 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
• 2 cage free eggs
• 1 vanilla bean (scraped) or 2 TB pure vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 2 TB peanut flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk of choice (i used skim)
• 3/4 cup natural peanut butter
• dark chocolate icing (confession: i was in a hurry so i used pillsbury, but next time i will make it from scratch)

directions:

combine sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. mix well.

in a separate bowl, combine flours and baking powder.

slowly add your dry mix to your wet mix.

add milk.

spoon batter into muffin cups, filling about 1/3 of the way full (using half of the batter).

spoon 1 TB peanut butter into each cup.

top each cup with the remaining batter.

bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until tops are golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

when the cupcakes are cool, top with dark chocolate icing.

enjoy!