Brown Sugar Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe

Melt brown sugar with butter, add a touch of milk, thicken the mixture with chunky peanut butter and you've got brown sugar peanut butter frosting that's ready to pile on cupcakes or cakes.  I put my brown sugar peanut butter frosting on a chocolate cupcake (I've been working on an ultimate chocolate cupcake recipe - more details soon), but a vanilla cupcake or banana cupcake would work just as well. Brown sugar frosting is one of my top ten favorite frostings and this variation is definitely going to go into regular rotation.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi-Hat Cupcake Recipe

These chocolate peanut butter cupcakes loaded with dark chocolate chips, topped with peanut butter frosting, then dipped in more chocolate are a sight to behold.  This is the ultimate chocolate peanut butter cupcake!  Take a look inside:

I developed this recipe last November, but only shared the recipe with those who made a donation to FilterPure (a non-profit committed to providing safe drinking water to the at risk populations of the developing world). Through this effort, Cupcake Project readers raised over $3000 for FilterPure.  At the time, I promised that in six months I would make the recipe public.  This week, three different readers pointed out to me that I'm late.  So, with no further stalling, here it is.

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting

Peanut butter cookie dough frosting tastes just like cookie dough - after all, it is cookie dough (lightened up a bit)!

Take safe-to-eat peanut butter cookie dough, add two tablespoons of whole milk or heavy whipping cream for every cup of dough, and you've got perfectly pipe-able peanut butter cookie dough frosting.

Which cupcake flavor will you frost with peanut butter cookie dough frosting?  Here are my top picks:

• Oreo Cupcakes
• Oatmeal Raisin Cupcakes
• Snickerdoodle Cupcakes 
• Banana Chocolate Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough That's Safe to Eat

 

Why does cookie dough always refer to chocolate chip cookie dough?  For that matter, why does 90% of cookie dough ice cream use a vanilla ice cream base?  In the name of variety and a flavor combination that's hard to go wrong with, I present a recipe for peanut butter cookie dough that's safe to eat raw (no eggs!) and a recommendation that you mix it into chocolate ice cream.

When making peanut butter cookie dough, you needn't worry about ingredient order, mixing speeds, temperature, or times.  You aren't going to bake the cookie dough, so you can say, "Nanny nanny poo poo," to the laws of baking chemistry - just mix and eat!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi-Hat Cupcakes for FilterPure - It's Time to Raise $4,000

Update 8/31/2011: This post does not include the cupcake recipe. I only provided the recipe to those who donated.  Since enough time has gone by, I've made the recipe public on my Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi-Hat Cupcake Recipe post.

These chocolate peanut butter cupcakes loaded with dark chocolate chips, topped with peanut butter frosting, then dipped in more chocolate are a sight to behold.  This is the ultimate chocolate peanut butter cupcake!  Take a look inside:

Want the recipe?  Sorry, it's not free.