Reeses Cupcakes

Last week I learned that peanut butter and chocolate can really cheer up teenage girls.  Really.  Enter Reeses cupcakes. 

I used an old chocolate cake recipe and adapted my butter cream recipe for these cupcakes.

Crazy Cake: Makes 24 cupcakes or one 9x13 cake.
3 c. flour
5 heaping tablespoons baking cocoa
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 c. oil
2 c. cold water
2 tsp. vinegar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a fork mix together all dry ingredients until there are no big lumps. Stir in wet ingredients. Bake in cupcake liners for 18-22 minutes or an UNGREASED 9x13 pan for 26-30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

Peanut Butter Icing:
1/3 c. creamy peanut butter
1/4 c. milk
Confectioner's sugar
Slowly blend powdered sugar into peanut butter and milk until icing reaches desired consistency.

This is the recipe I used when I was teaching the pastor's wife how to make cupcakes from scratch last week, and when she picked up her kids from school their teachers asked if she was starting a cupcake business.  They were thrilled when she sent in samples the next day.  It was so much fun to spend a day baking with her.

I always appreciate how food brings people together and cheers people {teenagers included}.  Peanut butter and chocolate will definitely bring people together!

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