Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosring. These cupcakes are the ultimate chocolate and peanut butter dessert! If you follow me on Instagram you may remember seeing a sneak peek of these cupcakes a You'll also be topping these cupcakes with an easy peanut butter frosting. Remember my post about how to make buttercream frosting?

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are my go-to cupcake recipe! They're rich, dark, and moist, and the peanut butter frosting is perfect with it. But because the peanut butter is such a big component of the buttercream, it's much less noticeable, and the buttercream is plenty luscious, light. You can cook Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosring using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosring

Prepare of Cake Batter.
Prepare 2 1/2 cup of flour.
Prepare 1 2/3 cup of sugar.
You need 3/4 cup of butter, softened.
It's 2/3 cup of baking cocoa.
It's 1 1/4 cup of water.
Prepare 1 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
It's 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
You need 2 large of eggs.
It's of Frosting.
Prepare 3 cup of powder sugar.
It's 1/2 cup of butter.
Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
It's 1/2 cup of peanut butter.
You need 1/2 cup of cocoa.
You need 4 tbsp of milk.
It's of Topping optional.
It's 1/2 cup of fine chopped peanuts.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosring step by step

Note - the cake recipe is traditional Betty Crocker with my own directions and twist on the frosting and presentation..
Preheat oven to 350.
In a large mixer bowl add all of the cake batter ingredients. Mix in low speed for 30 minutes and then on high speed for another 3..
Line muffin tins with cupcake liners and, scoop batter into the liners. DO NOT fill completely or your cupcakes will stick - fill about 3/4..
Tip - use a ice cream scoop you batter into the tins..
Bake in oven about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean..
Let cupcakes rest in tins about 5 minutes before removing..
Cool completely before frosting..
Mix frosting ingredients in a mixer bowl on low until combined and then whip on high for about 2 minutes for fluffier icing..
Frost your cupcakes and sprinkle with peanuts if desired..

He loves the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. If you love chocolate and peanut butter - then these Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting are for you. They start with super moist The chocolate cupcake is moist, fudgy and tender in the middle. But for me, the frosting is the star of the show. It's creamy, peanut buttery, not too.