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pb frosted chocolate cupcakes
The Sugar Coated Cottage

Peanut Butter Frosted Chocolate Cupcakes

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Peanut Butter Frosted Chocolate Cupcakes. Peanut buttery frosting swirled on top of chocolatey cupcakes and sprinkled with crushed peanut M&M's.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 24 cupcakes
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • CAKE:
  • 1/2 Cup + 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 and 1/4 cups cake flour
  • 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 Tbsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • FROSTING:
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • GARNISH:
  • 2 "Sharing Size" bags of peanut M&M's can be found at grocery check out line

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Line cupcake pans with 24 liners
  3. CAKE:
  4. Add one cup boiling water to cocoa powder, stir to remove clumps and to combine. Let cool to room temperature.
  5. In bowl of mixer add in all dry ingredients, mix to combine.
  6. Add butter and mix until well combined.
  7. Slowly add in the room temperature cocoa mixture. Mix to combine.
  8. In separate bowl mix eggs and vanilla. Pour into flour mixture. Mix well to combine and until batter is formed.
  9. Pour evenly into prepared cupcake pans.
  10. Bake until toothpick inserted comes out clean (18-20 min).
  11. Cool completely.
  12. FROSTING:
  13. Mix all ingredients in bowl of mixer with paddle attachment until completely combined.
  14. ASSEMBLY:
  15. With offset spatula swirl peanut butter frosting onto each cupcake.
  16. GARNISH:
  17. Set aside 24 whole M&M's
  18. Gently crush the remaining M&M's
  19. In the center of each cupcake add one whole peanut M&M
  20. Sprinkle each cupcake with crushed peanut M&M's

Notes

Peanut butter frosting is a little softer, keep in cool dry place.
"Sharing Size" bags of peanut M&M's can be found in the check out aisle at most grocery stores.
I used Jiff creamy peanut butter.

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