Decadent Chocolate Peanut Butter Filled Cupcakes Food

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° F. Line muffin tin with 12 cupcake liners.
• Place sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder in small bowl. Stir until combined. Set aside.
• Whisk egg, buttermilk, vanilla, vinegar, and oil together in medium bowl. Set aside.
• Place chocolate chips in small bowl. Bring one cup of water to boil and pour 3 fl. oz. over chocolate chips. Stir to combine. Pour into egg mixture and whisk until combined.
• Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir until combined.
• Fill muffin cups using ¼ cup measuring cup.
• Bake for 20-24 minutes or until tops bounce back slightly.
• Place butter and peanut butter in bowl of stand mixer and combine on medium high speed for 1 minute.
• Add confectioner's sugar. Cover and combine on medium high speed until mixture is even consistency.
• Add vanilla extract, heavy cream, and salt. Combine on medium high until mixture is even consistency.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Cupcakes:
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• Fill cupcake pan with liners
• In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, brown sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt
• In a large bowl beat eggs, milk, oil and vanilla extract until well combined
• Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until well combined and no lumps are left. Scrape down sides of the bowl occasionally
• Add boiling water and slowly beat until combined. Batter will be thin.
• Fill cupcake liners about ½ full - don't overfill
• Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean
• Remove from oven and cool on wire rack
• Peanut Butter Frosting:
• In a medium bowl, cream together butter and peanut butter until smooth and fluffy
• Gradually add powdered sugar, alternating with milk, beating after each additional until desired consistency
• Frost cupcakes and garnish with candy or sprinkles if desired
• Store leftovers in airtight container

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and prepare a 12-cup muffin tin by lining it with cupcake liners.
• In a measuring cup, mix together the coffee and unsweetened cocoa.
• Into a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• Add the eggs, one at a time until well incorporated.
• Mix in the vanilla and coffee.
• Add half of the flour mixture and combine.
• Add half of the buttermilk and combine. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• Add remainder of flour and remaining buttermilk and thoroughly incorporate.
• With a rubber spatula, fold in the milk chocolate chips.
• Spoon into cupcake liners and fill 1/2 to 2/3 full.
• Bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the middle of each comes out clean.
• Allow to cool completely on a wire rack before filling and frosting.
• In mixing bowl, cream together the cream cheese and peanut butter.
• Mix in the confectioners' sugar.
• Add the heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time and mix until smooth and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl.
• Cream the shortening and butter together in the mixing bowl until well combined.
• Add the cocoa powder.
• Mix in the vanilla extract.
• Add half of the confectioners' sugar and combine well.
• Thoroughly mix in remaining confectioner's sugar.
• Add 4 tablespoons of milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add remaining tablespoons of milk, ONE AT A TIME until desired consistency is reached.
• If you find that the frosting is still too dry add more milk by teaspoons, not tablespoons at a time. If too moist add more confectioners' sugar by one tablespoon at a time.
• Insert an apple corer or cupcake corer into the middle of each cupcake and remove.
• Pipe enough peanut butter filling into each hole to fill and spread a layer of the filling on the top of each cupcake as well.
• Using the Wilton 1M Open Star decorating tip, frost each cupcake with the chocolate buttercream.

PEANUT BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in medium bowl until well mixed. In small bowl, whisk milk and sour cream until blended.
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with an electric mixer until creamed. Beat in peanut butter until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, until incorporated.
• With mixer on low speed, alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until just blended.
• Spoon about 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup. Bake 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove cupcakes from pan to wire rack to cool completely.
• Beat peanut butter and butter in medium bowl with electric mixer until smooth. On low speed, gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and 3 to 4 Tbsp milk until blended. Beat mixture on high speed 1 minute or until fluffy.
• Spoon filling into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-in. plain round tip. Insert tip into the top of each cupcake; squeeze as much filling into the center of each as possible (top of cupcake will bulge slightly).
• Melt chocolate chips in large glass bowl in microwave as package directs. Add sour cream; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy and good spreading consistency. Spread about 2 Tbsp frosting on each cupcake.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER MOUSSE–FILLED CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line 2 cupcake pans with 18 paper liners and fill the empty cups half full of water to prevent scorching.
• To make the cupcakes, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder together in a large bowl. In a food processor, blend the canola oil, agave nectar, soy milk, tofu, vanilla extract, and vinegar, scraping down the bowl often. Blend until very smooth, with no chunks of tofu visible, about 2 to 3 minutes. Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Stir well and spoon into the prepared cupcake pan, leaving some room at the top of each cup. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Remove the cupcakes from the pan and place on a cooling rack. Cool completely before filling and frosting.
• To prepare the filling, blend the tofu in a food processor until very smooth and creamy, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. Add the agave nectar and blend again. Add the peanut butter, vanilla extract, and salt and blend thoroughly until very light and smooth. Refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours to firm before filling the cupcakes.
• To assemble the cupcakes, you will need a pastry bag fitted with a large, plain smooth tip. Fill the pastry bag with peanut butter mousse and insert the tip halfway into the top of a cupcake. Squeeze filling inside each cupcake just until it starts to expand.
• Next frost the tops. If the frosting is too firm, heat in the microwave for a few seconds to soften it up. Spread the ganache evenly over the tops of the cupcakes. Let the cupcakes sit in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• Garnish with peanuts if desired.

PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 and line a standard cupcake tin with papers.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Put butter and chocolate in a bowl over boiling water and stir until melted. Remove and let cool slightly.
• Whisk into chocolate mixture the granulated sugar.
• Add eggs, and stir until smooth. Add vanilla.
• Lastly, stir in flour mixture.
• In a separate bowl make the peanut butter mixture by combining all ingredients and stirring until smooth.
• Assemble cupcakes by spooning in 2 T of the chocolate batter into each cup.
• Follow this with 1 T of peanut butter.
• Repeat with 1 T of chocolate batter and then 1 teaspoon of peanut butter.
• Swirl the batter with a toothpick before baking for 30 minutes or until the point where a toothpick comes out with only a few moist crumbs.
• No frosting necessary here. (Or so I'm told!).

REESES PEANUT BUTTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Line cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
• Mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl, set aside.
• Whisk together the unsweetened cocoa powder and the hot water in a small bowl.
• Heat butter and sugar together in a medium bowl on the stove on medium to low heat setting.
• Heat and whisk until they are just combined and melted together.
• Add in the cocoa powder mixture to the butter and sugar mixture.
• Remove from heat and blend with an electric beater for 4-5 minutes until it is cool.
• Add in eggs one at a time mixing thoroughly between additions.
• Mix in vanilla
• Finally alternate adding in the flour and the sour cream in additions of thirds until they are completely blended in.
• Place one frozen reeses candy in the bottom of each lined cupcake tin. Pour batter over the top of the candy until the tin is 1/2 full.
• Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and comes out cleanly.
• Beat the softened butter for 1 minute or until it is light and fluffy.
• Add peanut butter in and beat for an additional 2 minutes.
• Add vanilla extract and slowly add powdered sugar until your frosting becomes thick.
• Add 1 Tbsp of milk, and beat. Continue adding milk until frosting is the desired consistency.
• Heat 1 cup of heavy cream on the stove to a slow boil.
• Remove from heat and pour the cream over 1 package of semi sweet chocolate chips.
• Whisk together until it is blended to a sauce consistency.
• I frosted the cupcakes with a Wilton 2D tip.
• To drizzle the ganache, I cut the very tip off of a disposable piping bag and drizzled over the cupcakes.
• I topped them with a mini reeses candy.

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• In a small mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and milk until smooth.
• Set aside.
• In a bowl, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• In another bowl, whisk the eggs, water, oil and vanilla.
• Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. (batter will be thin.).
• Fill paper-lined jumbo muffin cups half full with batter.
• Drop scant tablespoons of peanut butter mixture into center of each.
• Cover with remaining batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes.
• Remove from pans to wire racks.
• Cool completely.
• Combine frosting ingredients.
• Frost cupcakes.
• Store in refrigerator.

PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners (for a total of 24 cupcakes).
• For the peanut butter filling: In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and peanut butter until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the granulated sugar. Beat in the vanilla and eggs, scrape down the sides of the bowl and continue to mix until smooth. Set aside.
• For the chocolate cupcake batter: In a medium-sized mixing bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream 1 cup of the granulated sugar with the oil. Slowly add the vanilla extract and egg yolks to the creamed sugar while mixing, and beat until incorporated.
• In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer with a whisk attachment, whip the egg whites and remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar until firm peaks form. Do not over-whip.
• Turn the stand mixer on the lowest speed. Add the dry ingredients and milk, alternating between the two and scraping down the sides after each addition. Mix on medium for 1 minute. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the whipped egg whites into the chocolate batter in three parts.
• Scoop one scoop of the chocolate cupcake batter into each cupcake liner. Top with one scoop of the peanut butter filling. The liners will be about two-thirds full. Bake until the cupcakes are nicely domed and the chocolate bounces back from gentle pressure, about 22 minutes; the peanut butter filling will not be firm. Remove from the pans and cool.
• For the frosting: In the bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, whip the cream, confectioners' sugar and vanilla on medium speed until stiff peaks form. Be careful not to over-whip the cream.
• Ice the cooled cupcakes with the frosting using a pastry bag fitted with the desired tip.