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Recipe: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes

I love to bake and, while I may burn the bottoms of my cookies, my cakes and cupcakes always turn out fabulously moist. Although I love to make cakes, cupcakes are my favorite desserts to bake because they are much easier to both bake and decorate. And, I love coming up with different flavors.

The most recent one I made was a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcake, and BOY was it good! I used a cake mix for the cupcake but made my own peanut butter frosting. I seriously could not believe how easy and YUMMY that frosting was. I couldn’t stop eating it out of the bowl!

After making up the cake mix, I put a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup in the middle. Tip: freeze the peanut butter cups to prevent them from melting in the oven. This is out it looks when it comes out of the oven:

Recipe: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Seriously, how amazing does that look?? Chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite combination. I got the frosting recipe from All Recipes but changed it to use less sugar. It was still a little too sugary, though, so I think I will cut the amount of sugar down even more next time.

Recipe: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Reese's Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Carol
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Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 C butter
  • 1 C peanut butter
  • 2 C confectioners sugar Next time, I'd probably only use 1.5 C, though.
  • Heavy whipping cream as needed
  • Chocolate Cupcakes unfrosted

Instructions
 

  • Beat butter and peanut butter together until light and fluffy.
  • Slowly add in 1 C confectioners sugar. Add whipping cream until it reaches the consistency you desire.
  • Slowly add in the rest of the confectioners sugar, and then add in more whipping cream until it reaches your desired consistency.
  • Use a piping tip to fill a chocolate cupcake by pushing the tip into the top of the cupcake and gently squeezing to fill.
  • Add some to the top of the cupcake and sprinkle with Peanut Butter Cup crumbles.
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It was seriously super easy. I think it took me about five minutes to make. I also crushed Reese’s peanut butter cups to sprinkle on top. Note: store cupcakes in the refrigerator since the frosting includes whipping cream.


Recipe: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Now, I think I need to whip up another batch!

 

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Recipe: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes