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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Ahh, recycling. What it's done for our lives, how much we think about reduce, reuse, recycle nowadays. And that's exactly where these little cupcakes started. Remember several months ago when I had an EPIC FAIL making salted peanut butter chocolate ganache? I piled all my extra peanutty chocolatey ganache into a big brick and shoved it into the fridge, and then I avoided my better half's constant requests to do something, anything with it - just get it out of the fridge.

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Epic Failure: Peanut Butter Ganache

I used to call this peanut butter fudge, but after seeing a log of real peanut butter fudge at a touristy candy place, I decided that what I made was really ganache. It is mostly chocolate, after all.

The first time I made this I’d stumbled on the recipe – and I suppose even now I stumble through it still. This begins with a nice, smooth ganache, into which I stir salty, creamy peanut butter. Spoon the whole mess into a plastic-lined pan and after a few hours in the fridge you have a sliceable hunk of peanutty chocolate.

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Peanut Butter Cookies

I love peanut butter cookies. I don't know if it's because I was a girl scout the year they introduced Tagalongs, or because we made peanut butter cup cookies every year at the holidays. Sure, as an adult I like my buttery shortbreads and not-too-sweet biscotti, but peanut butter, not chocolate chip, is my go-to childhood cookie.

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