Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. In the bowl of stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. These cupcakes are rich, moist, and bursting with chocolate peanut butter flavor. This easy homemade peanut butter frosting is a far cry from that dull, overly sweet, tooth-ache-in-a-jar frosting you're used to finding at the store.

Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Spread over cupcakes; immediately sprinkle with additional peanut butter cups. Line cupcake pans with paper liners. You can have Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes

It's 3 cup of cake flour.
Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
It's 3/4 cup of cocoa.
You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare pinch of salt.
Prepare of wet ingredients.
You need 1 cup of vegetable oil.
It's 2 tsp of cider vinegar.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
You need 1 tsp of chocolate flavoring.
You need 2 cup of cold water.
It's of frosting.
Prepare 2 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
Prepare 1 stick of butter, soft.
It's 3/4 cup of peanut butter.
It's 1 tbsp of vanilla.
It's 2 tbsp of milk.. to thin. may need more..

Let the cupcakes cool, then make the peanut butter buttercream by whipping together butter, confectioner's sugar, peanut butter, and a little vanilla: Pipe the buttercream onto the cooled cupcakes. Then, I like to drizzle a little bit of chocolate syrup or chocolate ganache on top and add chopped peanuts for garnish, but it's totally optional. 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 few weeks ago.

Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes step by step

Mix all dry ingredients well..
Mix all wet ingredients. Dump into dry ingredients. Mix well..
Fill cupcake pans 2/3 full. I use a 2 tablespoon scoop to do this quickly..
Bake at 350 for 19 minutes..
In mixer bowl beat butters together. Add vanilla. Add in sugar and Mix well. Add milk to thin frosting to desired consistency. Beat on high for 3 minutes to make it fluffy..
Once cool, frost cupcakes. I use a piping bag with no tip inserted to do it quickly..

I know a lot of you love chocolate and peanut butter, so I've been wanting to create a chocolate peanut butter cupcake for a while now. These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are drizzled with dark chocolate and topped with a peanut butter frosting. They're perfect for when you're in the mood for a decadent treat. If you've been following Let's Eat Cake, you know that we're huge fans of the classic combination. I made these cupcakes for my group at work.