Ina’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Posted by Aggies Kitchen on October 3rd, 2009. Filed under: Baking - Cupcakes/Muffins, Barefoot Contessa, Dessert, Ina Garten.Just wanted to wish my sister in law Jamie a very Happy Birthday today!
The family is getting together today to celebrate and meet a new addition to our growing family…baby Brady is the 2nd great grandchild and one of 16 cousins – Welcome to the family Baby Brady!! It also happens to be Jamie’s birthday (as well as Brady’s parent’s 5th anniversary! Big congrats!) and since I know how much she loves PB and Chocolate (something we have in common!) I wanted to surprise her with some of these cupcakes! I’ve been eying them in Ina’s Barefoot Contessa at Home cookbook for sometime now and this was the perfect occasion for them. Unfortunately I am not making it to the family get together, but have sent the cupcakes up with the husband and kids! And I forgot to leave one home for myself!! I did get to taste a piece of cupcake and frosting separately and that was really really good…can’t imagine what I’m missing not having an entire cupcake to enjoy all to myself with a glass of milk! Maybe Jamie will let us all know if they are as delicious as they look…
Here is a copy of the recipe on Food Network’s site!
Enjoy your birthday Jamie…and your cupcakes! Big birthday hugs to you!
Also…congratulations to the Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner giveaway…I drew a number using random.org and Cindy from FarmgirlCyn is the winner! Your gift bag is on its way Cindy! Thank you to everyone for entering!
PS…thank you all so much for the nice comments on my new design! I am really excited about it and want to extend a BIG thank you to Hannah from Sherbert Blossom for all of her hard work in creating Aggie’s Kitchen’s new look! It’s still a work in progress on my part, but I hope you will find it easy to navigate and resourceful! Stay tuned for an organized recipe index…
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Happy Birthday Jamie! These cupcakes look yummy!
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Aggie,
Thank you for the birthday wishes (even though I stopped counting years ago) and a HUGE thank you for these fantastic cupcakes. I ate (we all did) one and they are so rich and chocolatey. The peanut butter frosting was to die for. We all loved them and we had a wonderful family get together. We missed you but thanks for sending the pasta salad and bacon-wrapped smokies. It was great to have the “Aggie” touch at the party. Everything was a huge hit!
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Great looking cupcakes. I’m of the less is more crowd when it comes to frosting on cupcakes, so yours looks perfect!
October 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Aggie,
Everyone loved the cupcakes! Your new blog looks awesome…
October 5th, 2009 at 7:52 am
So sweet of you, Aggie! and the smart thing to do with baking- give it away!
I love this frosting, definitely a keeper. I haven’t tried the cupcakes yet though- they look perfect!
October 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
So sweet of you, Aggie! and the smart thing to do with baking- give it away!
I love this frosting, definitely a keeper. I haven’t tried the cupcakes yet though- they look perfect!
October 6th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Chocolate and peanut butter is a great combination and your cupcake looks like it tastes as good as it looks. My kids would like these.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
mmmmmmmmmmmm I have always wanted to make these. I think Josh would fall in love with me again
March 14th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
i love ina! Barefoot contessa..her brownies are killer! soo good!