November Cupcake Hero: Peanut Butter TuTu presents THE KING!

{sniff sniff} Does anyone else smell that? It's the sweet nutty smell of November's ingredient for Cupcake Hero::Peanut Butter!

I've tested several types of peanut butter cuppy recipes, but I can't help falling in love (ha! mini joke there) with chocolate and peanut butter--I think we all do. And, everytime I think of peanut butter and chocolate, I somehow end up channelling The King of Rock himself--Sir Elvis Presley

"The King Cupcake" is a dark chocolate peanut butter chip cupcake, topped with a banana cream glaze, frosted with a thick and fluffy peanut butter frosting. Garnished with chocolate chips for a hunk-a-hunk of burnin' cupcake love.

Much love as usual to my girl CB of iheartcuppycakes for hosting the Hero. Vote for The King by CLICKING HERE!

It so happened that this round of cupcakes was a lot of work. I wanted the cake to banana cream filling ratio to be just right. So, I had to test ( & bake) out several levels of batter to have just the right amount of room to add the banana cream glaze. You'll want just over a tablespoon of batter to get the correct ratio.

The banana cream filling is pretty tasty. I wanted it to sit more like a pudding or pie filling, but it ended up being more of a glaze. And, I'm cool with this. You get a nice gooey icing like pour over when you remove the wrapper.

You can create the same Banana Filling with a recipe that I found on Wren's Cottage:

Banana Cream Filling

1 cup milk

1/2 cup granulated sugar

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour or cornstarch

1/8 teaspoon salt

2 egg yolks, slightly beaten

1 large banana, mashed

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Directions
In a pan, heat milk until very hot but not boiling. In a bowl, mix the sugar, flour, and salt together. Stir in the hot milk, and beat until well blended. Pour back into the pan and continue stirring vigorously over low heat for 4-5 minutes, until very thick and smooth. Add egg yolks and cook for a few more minutes. Cool. Beat mashed bananas until smooth, add lemon juice and stir into the cooled filling.

When I added the banana cream filling to the top of the dark chocoloate peanut butter chip cupcake, I let the cupcake set in the refridge for 1 hour to thicken.

If you like what you see and would like to order The King, please contact me at:

tutucupcakes@gmail.com

Until my next cupdate,
LN

Not Your Average Cupcake Post

The cupcake is not forgotten. Trust me--I've been dying to bake a few ideas that I've had just floating around my head, but lately I've had A LOT going on in my life. So pardon me while I take this opportunity to step outside of the average cupcake blog plost to reflect on why I haven't been baking some kick ass cupcakes.

I've gotten a NEW JOB PEOPLE!!! Woot WOOT!

This has been a really intense process. Getting the job was a tad grueling, but nothing I couldn't handle. Seriously, who doesn't love a three hour interview where you meet everyone you'll be working with ;-) Really though, it's been the process of letting go of my OLD job.
It's a small company that I have been with for 5 years. I work directly under the owner. I gave my notice last week and it has been really weird trying to let go, and yet be slightly ingaged in what's going on.
But, this is a really great opportunity for me. My current job is very demanding--physically, mentally, emotionally. It's fast paced and fly by the seat of your pants. I have to admit, over the years, I've become addicted to the chaos and my work life constatnly bleeds over into my personal life. So, I am very excited to move to a larger company and spread my wings a little wider.
I have a feeling my new job will be a lot more organized and have some processes in place which will make my life easier and ease up some of the daily stress that I feel. Plus, my commute is like and HOUR shorter!

I will have so much more time to focus on the things that I LOVE. And, this will help me focus on my cupcake biz even more.

Thanks for letting me fill you in a bit on my life.

Until my next cupdate--which will include cupcakes--

Linds