Peanut Butter Chocolate Cupcakes
Scrumptious chocolate cupcakes with a peanut butter buttercream frosting. Topped with some Reese's Pieces.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 box Cake mix, I used Duncan Hines
- 3 Eggs
- 1 cup Water
- ½ cup Vegetable oil or Canola oil
- 1/2 cup Sour cream
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Peanut Butter Buttercream
- 1 cup Butter, softened
- 1 cup Peanut butter
- 4 cups Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 4 tsp Water
- 8 oz Reese's Pieces to top with
Instructions
To make the cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350℉. Line your cupcake tray with cupcake liners of your choice.
- In a large mixing bowl add your eggs, water, vegetable oil, sour cream and vanilla extract together. Stir by hand until slightly incorporated.
- Add in your cake mix and mix on low until smooth.
- Divide into your cupcake liners. I recommend filling each liner between ½ and ¾ of the way full. If you want bigger cupcakes filler closer to ¾.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until your cake tester comes out clean.
- Once done, set aside to cool.
To make the buttercream:
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter. Beat on medium speed until smooth.
- Add in your peanut butter and beat on low until combined.
- Turn off your mixer and add in about 2 cups of the powdered sugar, beat on the lowest setting.
- Add in the vanilla and water and mix a little bit more until combined.
- Add the remaining powdered sugar and mix well on medium speed until it starts to get a little fluffy.
- Put your frosting into a piping bag and pipe your frosting on to your completely cooled cupcakes.
- Add your Reese's Pieces or any candy of your choice.