Description
Delicious Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes combining rich brownie base with creamy peanut butter frosting.
Ingredients
Scale
- 18.3 ounce box chewy fudge brownie mix
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup water
- 2 large eggs room temperature and beaten
- 24 Full size Reese’s peanut butter cups unwrapped -or- 24 miniature Reese’s peanut butter cups
- 1¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup salted sweet cream butter softened
- 1½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2¼ cup powdered sugar
- 3–5 tablespoons whole milk
- 1½ cups Reese’s minis unwrapped (optional garnish)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350*. Line 2 normal size muffin pans with cupcake liners. Light spray the liners with nonstick spray. Set them aside.
- Add the brownie mix to a medium size mixing bowl.
- Add in the oil, water and the beaten eggs. Stir just until combined. Do not over mix.
- Place 1 peanut butter cup in the bottom of the cupcake liner.
- Spoon 1 ½ tablespoons of the brownie mix on top of the peanut butter cup.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Allow the cupcakes to completely cool before frosting.
- Using either a stand mixer, or a medium size mixing bowl and a handheld mixer on medium-high speed, beat together the butter, peanut butter and vanilla extract for 1 ½ – 2 minutes, until smooth.
- Add the powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, alternating with the milk until completely incorporated and smooth.
- Once the cupcakes are completely cooled, fill a decorator’s bag fitted with an open star tip or a gallon size ziploc with a corner snipped off.
- To frost the cupcakes, hold the decorator’s bag about ½ inch from the center surface of the cupcake. Use even pressure, squeeze to form the center of the star-swirl. Keeping the tip elevated and using the same pressure, follow the outer line of the star-swirl. (Making a kind of a C around the star-swirl until the outer swirl lines connect) Repeat for the remaining cupcakes.
- Sprinkle a few of the Reese’s mini unwrapped candies over the frosted cupcakes.
Notes
- Ensure eggs are at room temperature for better mixing.
- Spraying the liners helps in easy removal of cupcakes.
- Optional garnishing can enhance presentation.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 200mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 40mg