Eggless Orange, Peanut Butter & White Chocolate Cupcakes

When i planned to make some cupcakes,i know i'll be making with my favourite fruit Orange and here its a peak season for oranges. Obviously we get few kgs every week and we start almost our day with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. Coming to this cute cupcakes, i prepared them with peanut butter and finely chopped white chocolate chunk, freshly squeezed orange juice.. Fresh orange juice,peanut butter and white chocolate, you wont believe me this combination works out tremendously prefect and we simply enjoyed thoroughly this very addictive cupcakes.

Cupcakes usually have icing on them and they are supposed to be little mini cakes, muffins dont have icing and they are usually have fruits in it. Cupcakes are usually prepared for special occasions while muffins are usually prepared to enjoy anytime of the day.Some says that cupcakes will be lighter in weight when compared to the muffins. Muffins goes awesome with coffee while cupcakes goes prefect with a cup of tea.Coming to this cupcakes,if you dont have white chocolate,you can go very well to dark chocolate or milk chocolate,somehow i love here the addition of white chocolate. Do check Champa, Srivalli, Sumana Deepak,Veena and Preeti Deo wat they baked for the  third day of bake-a-thon. Also check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending these muffins to Kalyani's Magic Mingle with fruits and chocolate as this month's secret ingredients and to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.

2+1/2cups All purpose flour
1/4cup Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2cup Creamy Peanut butter
1cup Fresh Orange Juice
1tbsp Orange zest
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1/2cup White chocolate chunks
1/2cup Yogurt
1/2tsp Vanilla extract
1/4tsp Salt

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Line the cupcake pans with paper moulds.

Beat together the butter,sugar, peanut butter together until they turn smooth.

Now add the yogurt,orange juice and beat for few minutes.

Sieve the flours with salt, baking soda and baking powder together and add gradually to the already prepared wet ingredients.

Mix everything well with a spatula,dont overmix and gently fold the white chocolate chunks,orange zest to the batter.

Spoon the cupcake batter to the paper moulds and bake for 20-25minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

For Icing:
1/4cup White chocolate (chopped roughly)
3tbsp Fresh cream
Few sugar pearls

Take the chopped white chocolate,fresh cream in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 2-3minutes, whisk well to turn as a white ganache.

Once the cupcakes gets well cool, spoon the white chocolate ganache on the top of the cupcakes, sprinkle generously the sugar pearls.

Enjoy with your favourite drink.