Ingredients Needed for Peanut Butter Cupcakes

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"For these cupcakes, there are quite a few ingredients, but it's not hard. It's stuff that you should have in your pantry for baking anyway. It's not difficult, just kind of a list. We'll go over it together. Of course, the cupcakes liners to put into the muffin tin or the cupcake pan. That's helpful. We have some baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla, cocoa powder. We have some eggs. You're going to need 2 eggs at room temperature. I wanted to stop and point that out, because when we're mixing them with other ingredients we're putting them in there with, it's just going to make them blend together a little bit better. If they've only been sitting out a few minutes, it's not the end of the world. It will just mix a little better if you have your 2 eggs at room temperature. Just throwing that out there. We also have some flour and some sugar, of course. We can't bake anything without those, or without our stick and a half of butter. My 2 secret ingredients I was telling you about. I have 2. One, sour cream. Sour cream is a great little secret weapon to throw into cakes. I love putting this in pound cake. In cakes and in this case, cupcakes. You can put these in brownies. This is a really great thing to throw in somewhere. It adds such a level of richness and moisture to anything you bake it with, so keep that mind. My other secret ingredient. I know this is going to sound weird, but we have half cup of flat root beer. I know, it's a little bizarre. This will add so much to the flavor and you can't taste it. They don't taste like root beer brownies at all. You don't taste the root beer. It just adds that something where you're thinking these are different and they're really moist, and they're really yummy. That's the difference. These 2 things right here. You do want to let it sit out. I let this sit out over night. Actually, this has probably been sitting out maybe 20 hours. Not quite a whole 24 hours, but somewhere around 20 hours getting flat. The carbonation does some funky stuff when you put it into baking other things, so you want it flat. Leave it out sitting out as long as possible."