Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
You can never have too many American recipes, so give Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes a try. This recipe makes 24 servings with 355 calories, 8g of protein, and 22g of fat each. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up butter, powdered sugar, creamy peanut butter, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Instructions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans).
Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 2 minutes. Reserve 12 of the peanut butter cup candies for garnish. Coarsely chop remaining candies; stir into batter. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
Bake 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely.
In medium bowl, beat powdered sugar, peanut butter, butter and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
Add whipping cream; beat until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cupcakes.
Cut reserved peanut butter cup candies in half; garnish each cupcake with 1 half candy.