Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 0.7 cup brown sugar packed
• 0.8  cocoa powder natural style
• 6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar 
• 2 oz cream cheese softened
• 2 oz creamy peanut butter 
• 2 large eggs 
• 6 oz flour) lily white all-purpose
• 0.7  granulated sugar 
• 4 tablespoons half & half 
• 3 tablespoons milk 
• 1 cups cool whip 
• 0.8 teaspoon salt 
• 1  tiny pinch of salt 
• 2 tablespoon cup heavy whipping cream sour room temperature
• 1 cup milk soured with a half tablespoon of vinegar
• 0.3 cup butter unsalted melted
• 8 tablespoons butter unsalted softened
• 0.7  cocoa unsweetened natural style (Hershey's)
• 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract vanilla extract 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 0.3 cup vegetable oil 
• 3 cups aerate before using 

Equipment

• oven
• mixing bowl
• blender
• hand mixer
• aluminum foil
• muffin liners

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line 12 cupcake cups with jumbo (3 inch) paper liners (e.g. Reynolds Foil Lined Baking Cups or ones with 1 3/4 inch high sides). You can also use smaller cups and make more than 1
2. Mix the dry ingredients (flour through sugar) together in a mixing bowl.
3. Add the butter, oil, eggs and vanilla and stir until mixed, then gradually add the buttermilk. Stir well, then beat with an electric mixer for 1 minute or just until blended.Divide batter evenly among cupcake cups and bake for 25 minutes at 325 or until cakes are set.
4. Let cool completely. Note: Smaller cupcakes will take less time.To make the filling, beat together all ingredients (starting with 3 tablespoons of milk and adding more only if needed) except for whipped topping. Fold in the whipped topping. Also, don't forget to taste and adjust milk/peanut butter/sugar to make sure YOU like it.
5. Cut a big hole in each cupcake and reserve cuttings. Fill holes with peanut butter filling. Crumble some of the reserved cuttings over hole to cover peanut butter. Put in the refrigerator to chill.In a large mixing bowl, mix the butter, sour cream sugar, cocoa, salt and 2 tablespoons of the cream as well as you can, then beat with a hand-held mixer until pasty and thick. Continue adding remaining cream until you get a nice, smooth, spreading consistency.
6. Put the icing in a piping bag fitted with a large star tip or in a heavy duty freeze bag of which you will snip off the tip. Pipe a big star or dot over the hole where you buried the pie filling.