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REESE'S Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cupcakes
Details
- Timing
- Timing
- Total:
- Bake:
- 17 Min.
- Prep:
- 32 Min.
- Skill Level:
- Beginner
- Yields:
- 18 cupcakes
These REESE'S Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cupcakes are clearly the ultimate treat for any peanut butter enthusiasts in your life. Any dessert that combines REESE'S Creamy Peanut Butter, REESE’S Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups and REESE’S MINI PIECES Candy is sure to be a big hit. And the best part of this REESE'S Peanut Butter Chocolate Cupcake recipe is that the kids will have so much fun decorating them with easy peanut butter frosting and candy pieces. Want more ways to use REESE'S Candy in recipes? Try making these Crunchy REESE'S PIECES Bars.
Ingredients & Directions
- Prep Time
- 32 minutes
- Bake Time
- 17 minutes
- Cool Time
- 2 hours
BAKE MODE:
Prevent your screen from going dark while you bake.
Ingredients
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1 cupsugar
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1/2 cup
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1/4 cupvegetable oil
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1egg
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3/4 cupall-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons
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1/2 cup
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3/4 tspbaking powder
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3/4 tspbaking soda
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1/2 tspsalt
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1/2 cupmilk
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1/2 cupboiling water or hot brewed coffee
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1/4 cupREESE'S MINI PIECES or REESE'S PIECES Candy
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Easy Peanut Butter Frosting
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1/4 cupREESE'S MINI PIECES or REESE'S PIECES Candy
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Directions
Equipment Needed
Oven
Muffin Tin
Muffin Cups
Mixing Bowl
Mixer
Measuring Cups
Bowl
Wire Racks
1
Heat oven to 350° F. Line 18 muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper or foil baking cups.
2
Beat sugar, peanut butter, oil and vanilla in large mixing bowl until blended. Beat in egg. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture alternately with milk to peanut butter mixture, beating until thoroughly blended. Stir in boiling water. Evenly divide batter into prepared muffin cups (filling each about half way or with about 3 tablespoons batter).
3
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted into centers of cupcakes comes out clean. Cool completely in pans on wire racks.
4
Remove wrappers from peanut butter cups; cut each into halves and set aside. Prepare and frost cupcakes with Easy Peanut Butter Frosting. Top each frosted cupcake with REESE'S MINI PIECES Candy and 2 peanut butter cups halves.
Easy Peanut Butter Frosting: Combine one can (12 oz) ready-to-spread white frosting with 1/2 cup REESE’S Creamy Peanut Butter. Makes 1-3/4 cups frosting.
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Nutrition FactsServings Per Container 18 servingsServing size 1 cupcake (81g)Amount per servingCalories300% Daily Value*Total Fat 13g 17%Saturated Fat 3g 15%Trans Fat 0gCholesterol 15mg 5%Sodium 280mg 12%Total Carbohydrates 44g 16%Dietary Fiber 2g 7%Total Sugars 18gIncludes 16g Added Sugar 32%Protein 6gVitamin D 0 0%Calcium 41mg 4%Iron 1mg 6%Potassium 188mg 4%
*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutritional advice.
