Mixing Melting Ingredients to Make Peanut Butter Cupcakes

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"For this recipe, we're actually going to use a couple of different bowls. It's not complicated. We just mix a couple things in one bowl, a couple of things in the second bowl, a couple of things in a third bow, and you end up mixing it all together before pouring it into the muffin tin or the cupcake pan. It's not hard. We're starting with our first bowl. We're going to melt some of our ingredients. We're going to melt our stick and a half of butter. Get this in here. A lot of times when you bake, you want to use room temperature for baking, but in this case, we're popping it in the microwave so it really doesn't matter. Mine is still pretty cold from being in the fridge. That's okay. Your stick and a half of butter. If you've watches anything else I've ever done, I don't do a whole lot with the microwave in baking, but this is called for. We need our half a cup of root beer. Sounds weird. Let's get our half a cup. I think I have just over a half a cup. Just right. 1/3 of a cup of cocoa powder. This when you melt this together is bizarrely enough is just like a great chocolate syrup. That's a great idea. Maybe we can use this one day for a chocolate syrup and make something else. I'm going to pop this in the microwave. I think this normally takes about 2 minutes to melt. Whatever it takes. You can always stop it at maybe a minute through and kind of stir it around. Get the butter broken down a little bit. Pop this in the microwave and get it started to melt."