I do not like Peanut butter. I think it is pretty gross, so I wasn't really looking forward to preparing these ones. I think Peanut M & Ms are OK, but would never ever be a first choice. All those different Reeses things - don't care!
So the cake is basically a nice sponge, to which you add some peanut butter, this makes it go a light brown colour. Wagman said you had to use SMOOTH, but I rebelled and used Rachel's supply - which is CRUNCHY. Crunchy worked out well - you got little snippets of peanut here and there.
Also I made them in all 3 sizes, as in the picture which was good. You get mouthful sized evening cakes and snacky medium and massive monster muffin. Well good.
However, the frosting was pretty amazing. You had to do melting and whipping over a bain marie and then quite a lot of cooling, and then some more whipping, but by the end it was well good. Very chocolatey and quite peanutty, but in a good way, not a bad way. Quite like fudge. Very nice. I was so impressed I even went and got some Reeses Pieces to go on top, that you can see in the aerial view. That shows my dedication.
The Daisy-o-meter was in favour and thought they were "a contender" - but I hope not for gladiators.Quite a few people, like Emma, preferred these to the brownie ones.
Erin showed his dedication to these ones by refusing to even try the brownie ones "in a statement of cupcake monogamy". You don't get better than that.
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