Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Get ready for this chocolate peanut butter cupcake recipe to knock your socks off! This sponsored post is part of the Virtual Bake Day from Gold Medal Flour.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: About 24 cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcake Ingredients:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (I used Gold Medal)
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I used dark chocolate cocoa powder)
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup coffee, lukewarm (you can use decaf coffee if desired!)
24 mini peanut butter cups, unwrapped (I used Reese's)
(optional: melted chocolate for drizzling)

Peanut Butter Frosting Ingredients:

2 cups creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup heavy cream

Method

To Make The Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes:

Prepare 24 baking cups with paper baking liners. Place a peanut butter cup in each baking liner. Set aside.

In the bowl of stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add in vanilla.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt until combined. Then in an additional separate bowl, stir together buttermilk and coffee. Add dry ingredients to creamed butter mixture alternately with buttermilk and coffee, beating well after each addition.

Fill baking cups with batter on top of the peanut butter cups until they are about two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

Top with peanut butter frosting. (Optional: Then drizzle with melted chocolate.)

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes