Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes: A great combination of flavor!
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes are sooo yummy. They combine two great flavors, and are topped with a Dark Chocolate Frosting. I mean, it doesn’t get much better than that!
We just love peanut butter at our house. Well, most of us. My 15 year-old daughter isn’t a fan, but I have nothing to do with that.
She is my picky eater and that’s okay. We constantly introduce her to new foods and she already eats a wider variety of foods than she did as a little kid, and she tries new food all the time.
Her older sister was a picky eater as a child too, but she eats just about everything now, and she will still try new things. Somehow she has even got her husband to eat many foods that he wouldn’t touch before she started cooking for him. Proud momma moment here!
I never wanted my kids to end up hating a food because they were forced to eat it. People say it all the time, how they won’t eat a certain food because they were forced to eat it as a child.
We always figured that as long as they were eating enough of a variety of foods to be properly nourished, then that is what matters. I would not want them to never be re-introduced to a specific food because it brings bad memories for them.
We think food should be associated with good times and good feelings, not getting punished.
Now about this recipe. I modified Martha Stewart’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes recipe for the cupcakes and I used Sally’s Baking Addiction’s Dark Chocolate Frosting recipe. She puts this frosting on her Death By Chocolate Cupcakes.
Let me just elaborate on this frosting recipe. I have tried many frosting recipes. Some were too sweet and some were just not the right consistency.
This frosting is perfect. It has the perfect sweetness and consistency. I usually make changes to recipes to “make them my own”, but how can you change something that is perfect?
Sally even tells you to add a pinch of salt if it is too sweet. I didn’t think it was.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes:
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened, (1 1/2 sticks)
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Dark Chocolate Frosting:
- 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 2/3 cup cocoa
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 6 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- chocolate chips, for garnish, if desired
Instructions
Instructions for the cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, with electric mixer, cream butter, sugar, and peanut butter until creamy. Beat in eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full. Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool completely. Frost with chocolate frosting.
Instructions for the frosting:
- In a medium bowl sift together powdered sugar and cocoa.
- In a large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed beat butter until creamy, about 2 minutes. On low speed beat in powdered sugar/cocoa mixture alternately with heavy cream and vanilla, beating until mixed well after each addition. When all ingredients have been added beat for at least 2 more minutes. Frost cooled cupcakes.
- Garnish with additional chocolate chips, if desired.
Cupcake recipe adapted from Martha Stewart. Frositng recipe Sally’ Baking Addiction.
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Sounds amazing!
Thanks so much!
I love peanut butter and always have but that isn’t the case with all foods. We have been much more adventurous these past few years with trying new foods and it is so fun. Great looking cupcakes!
Us too. We are finding that we like just about everything! Thanks
Absolutely a treat with one such cup cakes in hand!!
Thanks!
These look so delicious! I love the glossy frosting!
Me, too. Thank you!
They must be delicious!! Yum!!
Yes, thanks!
These look so tasty! I will have to give them a try.
That’s great, I hope you like them! Thanks
These are the show stopper, Mindy. The combo of peanut butter and chocolate is just unbeatable, isn’t it? The frosting is perfect too.
Yes, I think so. Thanks!
The cupcakes are so fancy and look very delish ♥
Thank you, they were fun to make!