Peanut Butter Coca-Cola Cupcakes
Peanut Butter Coca-Cola Cupcakes
Are any of you still snowed in? I sure hope not. This winter those of us on the west coast of British Columbia got a taste of real winter. You know the kind with several feet of snow on the ground; school closures; freezing rain; stuck cars; power outages, and then some. Well, for those of you who put up with this every winter, I take my hat off to you! I can’t do it. I am so accustomed to mild, gentle winters that my body goes into shock, and something akin to depression sets in. And when the frigid conditions endure on for a month like it did this year, well, I have to do something desperate…. Like bake the most decadent thing I can dream of. Only then does the gloominess begin to abate. This recipe was the ticket this year! The creamy, salty-sweet, chocolate-peanutty mélange of these cupcakes went straight to my brain and hit the “re-wire” button. Poof – depression gone! And the most wonderful thing was that the recipe made enough cupcakes for subsequent dosages, just incase the depression started to creep back in!
I found this recipe in the most delightful little cookbook called “Sea Salt Sweet” by Heather Baird. Ms. Baird topped her cupcakes with a dusting of Sel Gris, which would be wonderful, but my peanuts were nice and salty so it worked for me.
One note: The quantities for the frosting are huge. You can either cut it back, or make it as it is written and store the remainder of the frosting in the fridge to recharge your batteries after hours of shovelling snow!
I will be sharing this decadence with my buddies at Fiesta Friday (Co-hosted by Anugya @
The Indian Curry Shack and Margy at La Petite Casserole ) and at Saucy Saturdays this week.
This is the cure for your mid-winter blues!
Peanut Butter Coca-Cola Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 cup (240 ml) Coca-Cola
½ cup (50 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
4 tablespoons (60 g) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
½ cup + 2 tablespoons (120 g) granulated sugar
¼ cup (60 g) firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon + 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
1 large egg
Salted Peanut Butter Frosting:
4 cups (480 g) confectioner’s sugar
8 ounces (230 g) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup (260 g) natural creamy peanut butter
¼ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
3 to 4 tablespoons ( 40–60 ml) heavy whipping cream
Chocolate sprinkles
Salted peanuts
Sel gris for sprinkling
Method:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Line 12 wells of a standard cupcake pan with paper liners.
In a small saucepan, heat the Coca-Cola, cocoa powder, and butter over medium heat until the butter is melted. Add the two sugars and whisk until dissolved. Remove from the heat and let cool for 5 – 7 minutes, until it stops steaming.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
In a small bowl, whisk the egg until foamy. Then whisk in the cooled Coca-Cola mixture. Gently stir the flour mixture into the liquid mixture.
Divide the mixture evenly among the cupcake liners, filling no more than ¾ full. Bake for 25 minutes, or until the cakes spring back when pressed in the middle.
Transfer the cakes to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before frosting.
To make the frosting, combine the confectioner’s sugar, butter, peanut butter and salt in a large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until just combined, then switch to high speed and beat until light and fluffy.
Add the whipping cream 1 tablespoon at a time and beat until the mixture is lightened and smooth. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a ½ inch plain decorator tip. Or just use a zip-lock bag with the corner snipped off. Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes.
Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles, salted peanuts and/or a sprinkling of sel gris.
Guaranteed to get you through winter!
Foodie On Board 
31 Responses to “Peanut Butter Coca-Cola Cupcakes”
Always look forward to your postings! These look fabulous! Another thing to try when I get home. Great looking liners too! Look almost like salt covered.
Hehe Les! You will put your own spin on them and they will be even more amazing!
Oh, thanks, Les. Yes, it is amazing what I can find in my little backwater town. Got those covers at the local grocery store!
Looks amazing. Drooling 🙂
So glad that my post would make you drool! 😀
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Nice recipe and pictures too, LOVE IT!!!
Well, thanks so much!
Those cupcakes look absolutely delicious and peanut butter frosting is one of my very favorites. Your frosting looks so creamy and luscious!
Thanks so much, Julie! Oh trust me, that frosting is to die for… highly addictive!
Peanut Butter Coca – Cola cupcakes what a combination, sounds delicious!
Yes, it is an interesting combination, but oh so very delicious!
I believe 🙂
Hey Julianna! These are such pretty looking cupcakes 🙂 I haven’t tried using Coca Cola in a recipe as yet and your recipe sounds very interesting. Would love to give it a try sometime very soon!
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Well thanks so very much for including me in this! I really appreciate it. I will go over and have a look at your Facebook page for sure! 😀
Complete pleasure! 😀
I heard the you had one of the worst winter ever… on this part of Canada we cannot complain at all, I mean, it is not over yet, but so far so good!
Thanks a lot for being at FF this week, these peanut butter coco cola muffins look divine!
Thanks so much, Margherita! Yes, it has been a terrible winter, and it is snowing again as I write this! We just have to keep focussing on Spring which is just around the corner… or so they tell me! 😀
I never thought of pairing coke and pb, but what a great idea! I like coke and I like pb, so I know I would love these cupcakes. Thanks for sharing and I hope some milder weather comes your way:)
It’s really a wonderful combo, Lily! I will make these again for sure!
That sounds like a lot of snow Julianna!! Hope you see the last of it! This flavor combination is so unique and yet, makes perfect sense with the salt and sweet!
Yes, Naina, you are so right! Salt and sweet is just so amazing! And yes, we have had so much snow… unfortunately it is snowing again right now… oh well I guess I will just have to do some more baking therapy! 😀
these look absolutely delicious !! thanks for sharing this recipe for me to try xx
My pleasure! I hope you get to try them! 😀
These sound awesome! I love anything Peanut Butter!
Oh yes, it is amazing stuff! 😀
Love these!! I wish we had more ppl that liked PB here or I’d make them in a heartbeat! Pinning for later, though!
Mollie
What, Mollie? Your people don’t like peanut butter?? What the heck – make them and find people who like peanut butter :D. I give away tons of baking as my husband and I can’t eat it all! Go for it! 🙂
I love to bake and love to share – but my neighbors and I are all on WW!! I never worry about making most things coz my Stepmom loves sweets, but I hate to mess up my friend’s diets!! 🙂 These look too too irresistable to have around!
This fusion of coca cola in cupcakes sounds irresistable..Can’t wait to try this 🙂
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