Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are a delicious homemade cupcake recipe that I love making for parties!

If you love chocolate and peanut butter together, this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe is for you!

This recipe combines two of my favorite treats into one! Make this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe if you are looking for a new and delicious dessert recipe! Perfect for cookouts, parties, holidays, special occasions, and birthdays! I love the mixture of Chocolate and Peanut Butter, and I hope you do too!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe

INGREDIENTS: 

Cupcake Ingredients:
1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
3 Cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 Cups Flour
1 Cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 Cup buttermilk
1 Cup water
1 Cup peanut butter

Frosting Ingredients:
1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter
3 Cups powdered sugar
1/2 Cup peanut butter
5 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla

DIRECTIONS: 

Cupcake Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and fill a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl, combine the butter and sugar until mixed.
3. Add eggs, beating one at a time.
4. Add in the vanilla.
5. In another bowl, combine dry ingredients.
6. In a third bowl, combine the milk, and water.
7. Add all the wet ingredients together. Then combine all the ingredients, alternating between the wet and dry, beating well after each addition.
8. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 of the way and bake for 21 minutes.
9. Cool on wire racks.

Frosting Directions:

1. Add all ingredients into a standing mixer and mix until combined and stiff peaks form.
2. If powdered sugar pebbles form, add 1-2 more Tbsp heavy cream.
3. If thin add 1/2 cup powdered sugar.
4. Mix until stiff and doesn’t fall off a spoon.

Directions to prepare:

1. In a small bowl, microwave the peanut butter for 1 minute.
2. Carve out a small hole into the center of the cupcake and fill with the melted peanut butter.
3. Frost the cupcakes with your frosting and drizzle with chocolate.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 21 minutes

Additional Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 46 minutes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are a delicious homemade cupcake recipe that I love making for parties!

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Ingredients

Cupcake Ingredients:

• 1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
• 3 Cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 Cups Flour
• 1 Cup cocoa
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1 Cup buttermilk
• 1 Cup water
• 1 Cup peanut butter

Frosting Ingredients:

• 1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter
• 3 Cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 Cup peanut butter
• 5 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Cupcake Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and fill a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl, combine the butter and sugar until mixed.
3. Add eggs, beating one at a time.
4. Add in the vanilla.
5. In another bowl, combine dry ingredients.
6. In a third bowl, combine the milk, and water.
7. Add all the wet ingredients together. Then combine all the ingredients together, alternating between the wet and dry, beating well after each addition.
8. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 of the way and bake for 21 minutes.
9. Cool on wire racks.

Frosting Directions:

1. Add all ingredients into a standing mixer and mix until combined and stiff peaks form.
2. If powdered sugar pebbles form, add 1-2 more Tbsp heavy cream.
3. If thin add 1/2 cup powdered sugar.
4. Mix until stiff and doesn't fall off a spoon.

Directions to prepare:

1. In a small bowl, microwave the peanut butter for 1 minute.
2. Carve out a small hole into the center of the cupcake and fill with the melted peanut butter.
3. Frost the cupcakes with your frosting and drizzle with chocolate.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 479Total Fat: 26gSaturated Fat: 12gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 76mgSodium: 385mgCarbohydrates: 57gFiber: 2gSugar: 40gProtein: 7g

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