If you have never visited Bakerella’s site, please do so! Her baked creations are absolutely beautiful and tasty as well. Her artistic talent far exceeds mine, so usually I just browse her site for fun. When I saw these cupcakes, I just knew I had to give them a try.
They combine two of my favorite flavors (chocolate and peanut butter, of course) and they are pretty to look at, too. Now I didn’t go quite as far as she did and put a homemade peanut butter cookie on top, but I did add a few peanut butter chips to the cupcake batter.
I didn’t get enough action shots for the recipes so this will be a text recipe only with some pretty finished shots thrown in. Without further ado, I give you (drumroll, please): Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cupcakes:
Cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 tsp. vanilla
2/3 cup milk
2/3 cup hot water
1 cup peanut butter chips
Frostings:
1 cup butter, room temperature
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
4 cups confectioners sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tbsp. milk
For Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cupcake pan with liners and set aside. In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients together. Add the eggs, oil, vanilla and milk. Mix together then add the hot water. Stir in the peanut butter chips. The batter will be thin.
Fill the cupcake liners about 2/3 full and bake for 15 minutes or until done. Cool before frosting.
Chocolate Frosting: Beat 1/2 cup butter until creamy. Add 1 tsp. vanilla and mix. Slowly add 2 cups of the confectioners sugar and cocoa. Mix until combined. Add 1 tbsp. of milk and mix until creamy and smooth.
Peanut Butter Frosting: Beat 1/2 cup butter and 2/3 cup peanut butter until creamy. Add 1 tsp. vanilla. Slow add 2 cups confectioners sugar and mix until combined. Add the remaining 1 tbsp. of milk and mix until smooth.
Here comes the fun part! Using a decorator or zip top bag fitted with a large decorating tip, add BOTH frostings to the same bag. Try to keep them side by side in the bag and not completely mixed together. Frost the cupcakes with a swirl and the two frosting will mix together in the swirl. How cool is that? They are almost too pretty to eat. Almost, but not quite.
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Linda
These look amazing! Here’s my FPT post:
http://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2014/01/full-plate-thursday-peanut-butter.html
Colletta
Hi Tammi,
Your Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes looks fabulous, we will just love them! Thanks so much for bringing this awesome recipe to Full Plate Thursday today and have a great weekend!
Miz Helen
They look lovely, I love chocolate and peanut butter. Visiting from Best of the Weekend.
Thanks so much for visiting and commenting. Have a great day!
Yum these look delicious 🙂 Thank you so much for linking this recipe up at Recipe Sharing Monday! The new link party is up and I’d love to see you back. Have a great week. 🙂
These look so good! Thank you for sharing. You will be one of the features tomorrow at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Hope to see your prettiness again tomorrow at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
These are almost too pretty to eat, but with a choco-pb combo, I couldn’t resist. Love the frosting color swirl too. Visiting from Tidy Mom.
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting! I loved the swirled frosting and was surprised at how simple it really was.
Yum…I love chocolate and peanut butter together!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Best of the Weekend. Pinned to our party board. 🙂
Thanks!
My kids favorite combination is Chocolate Peanut Butter. Thank you so much for stopping by and linking up at Saturday Dishes ‘CHOCOLATE” Blog Hop. I pinned it.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
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