Chocolate Peanut Butter (Protein) Cupcakes

Ingredients

• Vanilla extract

  1 tsp or 4g

• Baking soda

  Leavening agents

  ⅓ tsp or 2g

• Baking powder

  Leavening agents, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate

  1 tsp or 5g

• Cocoa

  Unsweetened - Hershey's

  1 tbsp or 5g

• Beverages, almond milk, unsweetened, shelf stable

  ⅔ cup or 173g

• Whey protein powder

  Gold Standard, Any flavor, 100% whey protein

  2 ¹³⁄₁₆ scoop (30g) or 84g

• Wheat flour

  Whole-grain

  ¼ cup or 30g

• Nonfat greek yogurt

  Nonfat, plain

  1 cup or 240g

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Oil 4-5 silicone liners and set aside. in a medium sized bowl, combine ingredients to make cupcake batter and mix until combined. scoop batter into cupcake liners and bake ~15 minutes or until cooked all the way through. set aside to cool while you prepare the frosting. in a small bowl, combine greek yogurt with protein powder and mix until smooth and creamy. scoop into a plastic bag with the tip cut off and set aside. flatten the tops of the cupcakes a little so they are even then scoop out the center of each cupcake. pipe the frosting into the center of each cupcake. top off with a drizzle of chocolate sauce (baking cocoa + water) and homemade chocolate pb cups. to make pb cups, i melted chocolate into the bottom of a cupcake liner, topped with @nutsnmore toffee pb, set in freezer for a few min, then topped with more melted chocolate. broke the pb cup into a couple pieces and topped each cupcake with a piece.
2. Frosting is 1 scoop whey and 1 cup yogurt Protein used it quest peanut butter protein powder