Delicious Chocolate Cake!

So this is the recipe that I used to make the cupcakes for my teacher, I got it from a magazine but I tweaked it up a bit, so it's seriously rich and delicious, I made this with a basic butter cream but I love it with peanut butter frosting so that is what you get, hahaha! 

Cake:

-1 1/2 cups sugar

-1 1/2 cups flour

-3/4 tsp. baking soda

-1/2 tsp. salt

-1 cup coffee

-6 oz. of a dark chocolate baking bar, finely chopped 

-1/2 cup vegetable oil

-1/2 cup sour cream, room temp

-2 large eggs, room temp

-1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin tins with baking cups.

-Sift together sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Bring coffee to a simmer in a small, heavy duty saucepan. Remove from heat and add chocolate and whisk unitl chocolate is melted and smooth. 

-Whisk vegetable oil, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla extract in another large bowl to blend. Add chocolate-coffee mixture, blend well. Gradually add the dry ingredients, and blend well. Pour equally into cupcake tins.

-Bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean. Cool on wire racks until cool enough to frost. 

Creamy Peanut Butter Frosting:

-1/2 cup butter (1 stick) softened

-1 1/4 cup peanut butter

-1/3 cup cream cheese

-1 tsp. vanilla

-3 tbs. milk

-2 1/3 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

-Place butter, peanut butter and cream cheese in a medium bowl, beat with an electric mixer until smooth, gradually mix in sugar. When it starts to get thick and vanilla, then milk. Beat for at least 3 minutes or until creamy and smooth. 

So there it is, I hope you like it! And sorry about the peanut butter frosting, I know it looks all over the place but I didn't have a recipe in front of me so these were kind of the random measurements I used but it came out good, trust me!