Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana Cupcakes

I finally got my icing piping kit. Thanks Amazon! This week was my dear friend Kenze's birthday. To celebrate we had a little shindig at our house. I was put in charge of cupcakes. I had Jeremy pick which recipe to do. He chose the Chocolate Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting recipe from Your Cup of Cake. That was fine with me, considering that my favorite shake to get at the Malt Shoppe is their hot fudge banana shake with peanut butter. He did have one addition for the recipe; he wanted me to put peanut butter cups at the bottom of the cupcakes. It did so, and the turned out amazingly. See for yourself:

The thing that is tricky about making these delicious cupcakes is that you want to eat them all.the.time. We just started a Nicholls's family health challenge that Jeremy and I are determined to with, and we can only have 4 sweets a week. Having treats like this around the house is no good. We're holding strong though, don't you worry. Here's the recipe from Your Cup of Cake:

 Cakes:
1 cup ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup oil
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut Butter Buttercream:
1/4 cup butter
8 oz cream cheese
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract;
3-5 cups powdered sugar

Directions:
1.  Preheat the oven to 340 degrees and line about 20 muffin tins with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl, mash bananas (about three) using a fork to get rid of all large lumps.
3.  Add oil, buttermilk, and vanilla and stir well.
4.  Add eggs, one at a time, being sure to mix well in between each addition.
5. Slowly add cake mix and mix well.
6. Place a full-sized peanut butter cup in the bottom of each cupcake liner.
7. Fill cupcake liners with batter until they are 3/4 full.
8. Bake for 12-18 minutes or until a knife or toothpick comes out clean.  Be sure to not over bake them.
9.  Place them in an airtight container as soon as they are out of the oven.
10.  Buttercream: Beat butter, cream cheese, and peanut butter until light and fluffy (should take about 5 minutes). Add vanilla and as much powdered sugar as desired.
11. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.

Enjoy!