Reese's cupcakes. Home » Recipes » Cupcakes » Reese's Cupcakes. Chocolate peanut butter swirled cake and chocolate peanut butter swirled frosting makes these the ULTIMATE Reese's Cupcakes! These Reese's Peanut Butter Cupcakes are always a crowd favorite!
Top each cupcake with a Reese's, then drizzle with melted chocolate.
If you like Reese's you're not going to want to miss out on this cupcake!
With these you get a delicious chocolate cupcake that's baked with a Reese's in the batter, then it's topped with a fluffy and.
You can have Reese's cupcakes using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Reese's cupcakes
- It's 1 package of chocolate cake mix.
- You need 1 package of instant chocolate pudding.
- You need 1 cup of sour cream.
- It's 1 cup of olive oil.
- Prepare 4 of eggs.
- You need 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 tablespoon of instant espresso in 1/2 cup of warm water.
- You need 1 package of Reese's Minis (frozen).
- Prepare of For the peanut butter buttercream:.
- You need 3 sticks of softened unsalted butter.
- It's 1 cup of peanut butter (I used creamy).
- You need 2 tablespoons of vanilla.
- You need 5 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.
- You need 7 tablespoons of heavy cream.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon.
Chocolate, peanut butter, Reese Cups, cupcakes…yum. That pretty much sums it up! The topping is a creamy peanut butter and well…I could eat it with a spoon, without feeling an oz of guilt. These Reese's Peanut Butter Cupcakes have dreamy peanut butter frosting and rich chocolate cake.
Reese's cupcakes step by step
- FOR THE CUPCAKES: Preheat oven to 350°F and line your muffin tins with cupcake liners.
- In a large bowl beat together cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, oil, espresso mixture and vanilla and beat until well combined.
- Transfer mix into the muffin tins (about 3/4 of the way full) makes 2 dozen cupcakes.
- Bake in your preheated over for 18-21 minutes.
- FOR FROSTING: in a large bowl cream softened butter with peanut butter until fluffy. Now gradually add in sifted powdered sugar until well blended..
- Add 4 tablespoons of heavy cream and vanilla. blend until moist. add your additional 3 tablespoons of heavy cream and beat until fluffy.
- Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes when cooled and garnish with chopped Reese's minis!.
Make these for your man this Valentine's Day and he'll probably drop to one knee and propose. Decadent and yummy Reeses peanut butter cupcakes filled with a Reese candy surprise in each one! These cupcakes are so cute and pretty for parties! With swirled chocolate peanut butter cake and swirled chocolate peanut butter buttercream and topped with a reese's peanut butter cup! Peanut butter and chocolate really are a match made in dessert Heaven.