Peanut Butter Chocolate Cupcakes
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
-
18 cup cakes
ingredients
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 3⁄4 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup baking cocoa
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 6 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 3 -4 tablespoons milk
directions
- Beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and milk until smooth in one bowl. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- In a third bowl, whisk eggs, water, milk, oil and vanilla.
- Stir into dry mixture until moistened. Batter will be thin.
- Fill paper-lined jumbo muffin cups 1/3 of the way.
- Drop scant tablespoons of peanut butter mix into the center of each.
- Cover with remaining batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and clean when removed.
- Combine last four ingredients for frosting and frost cup cakes.
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I'm a veterinary technician living in Akron, Ohio, with my husband, three greyhounds and three orange tabby cats! I'm recently married, so I'm using RecipeZaar to increase the number of dishes I prepare and expand our taste horizons! My husband is a veterinarian, so our lives revolve around our practice, but in our spare time we love to take our dogs to the dog park and renovate our century home!