Dark Castle dulce de leche filled chocolate cupcakes

This Dark Castle band cupcake is by Metalcakes (go there for the recipe!), and is a dulce de leche-filled chocolate cupcake, via Invisible Oranges.

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"Chocolate Malt" cupcakes from The Culinary Chronicles

Blogger The Culinary Chronicles does it again with these "Chocolate Malt" cupcakes (via Flickr). Visit her blog to get the recipe. She writes:

Thus was my inspiration to give these “Chocolate Malt” cuppies a try. I turned to Martha Stewart’s recipe and was happy to find that my sister had a jar of Horlicks Malt Powder on hand. I did make two minor tweaks to her recipe as I read that folks found that the cake didn’t have enough malt flavor. As a result, I increased the malt powder amount by an additional 1/4 cup and folded in a 1/2 cup of chocolate covered malt balls into the batter. As for the recipe, it was quite easy to follow–pretty much a one bowl situation. And when I pulled the cuppies out of the oven, I was pleased to see beautiful even domes on the tops.

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Rachel's birthday cupcakes

Okay, well, I wasn't going to admit this to Rachel, but since she found it on her own, I will come clean. I knew Rachel loves peanut butter-chocolate cupcakes so I decided to make some for her birthday. And when I saw this Peanut Butter & Co. Mighty Fine kit at Key Foods, I had to buy it and try it!













Back of box:






The cupcakes required a lot of ingredients for the frosting and the mix, but they came out very well.






In the pan:








Cooling in their sweet paper cups:









And with my horrible attempt at piping tough peanut butter frosting:









I topped each one with a fey banana chip hat.




They were a big hit at Rachel's birthday party, and I thought they tasted very chocolate-y and densely rich with peanut butter frosting flavor. The banana chip made it though.



Note: I found this mix at my local Key Foods about bought it for $6.75. Local pricing may vary.