Chubby Hubby Cupcakes

When I was pregnant with Caroline, we would go to Coldstone Creamery when the craving for ice cream hit. My favorite combo was banana ice cream with Reese's peanut butter cups, and as far as Joey was concerned, I might as well have been eating pickles with it. I'm not sure why it grossed him out so much - I'd still gladly eat that combo today!

I'm not sure where I got the idea for these cupcakes, but I've been talking about making them for months now with my friend Michelle. I only just realized that its basically the same combo as my favorite pregnancy treat. They are based off of the popular Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, which is vanilla ice cream with chocolate covered pretzels and peanut butter. When dreaming up these cupcakes, I for some reason thought they had banana in them, but it turns out I was just combining Chubby Hubby with Chunky Monkey. So maybe these should be called Chubby Monkey? Or Chunky Hubby?

source: cupcakes adapted from Half Baked, via Annie's Eats, ganache from Tartelette, frosting adapted from Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa at Home
No matter what you call them, they are quite a tasty treat: banana cupcake filled with chocolate ganache, and topped with peanut butter frosting. I dipped some pretzels in the ganache to top some of the cupcakes with, and I topped the rest with banana slices.

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