This recipe comes at a special request from my husband. He said that I don't make enough peanut/peanut butter desserts. My response was that I generally don't like peanut butter desserts (please don't gasp!) I just find them usually very sweet and heavy. I can only take a few bites of any peanut butter confection before I feel overwhelmed. And when it comes to dessert, I need something that I can eat more of. So I thought about it and the only peanut dessert that I couldn't get enough of came from a Chinese bakery. Taipan bakery to be exact. It's a chain in New York and I grew up eating their cakes and buns. But they have a case of mini cakes, I guess they are kind of Chinese petit fours, and this peanut cake was one of them. A light and fluffy peanut cake, frosted with a thin, silky layer of buttercream and coated in crushed peanuts. Not too sweet and not too heavy, it was the perfect amount of peanut flavor without being overwhelming. This is my perfect Crunchy Peanut Cupcake!