Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting are probably my favorite cupcakes ever. Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in heaven.

When referring to cupcake topping, do you say frosting or icing? I seem to always be switching between the two, so I googled it.

I’m glad I stuck to Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting. Seems I’m correct on this one! However you say it, we love cupcakes. Make sure to visit my best cupcake recipes. 

Here’s The Deal

“Icing is generally used to glaze pastries or cakes and tastes more sugary than frosting. The frosting is a thick, fluffy mixture, used to coat the outside of a cake.”

Now that we’ve got that national crisis settled, let’s talk cupcakes. A white back, one of my favorite preschool teachers asked me to bake cupcakes for her preschool class at church.

Yep, she’s a teacher at one of the local schools and at church. The kids love her and so do I! So, I was happy to supply her classroom with cupcakes. 

There was a time when I was a cake mix snob. You would never, ever catch me using a boxed mix. I turned my nose up at those prepackaged boxes when I passed them by at the grocery store. But sometimes a boxed mix comes in handy.

Ingredients For Chocolate Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting

You can find the printable recipe card at the end of this post.

• chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients listed on the box)
• pure vanilla extract

Frosting Ingredients 

• butter
• peanut butter
• pure vanilla extract
• heavy whipping cream
• powdered sugar

Helpful Hint: Powdered Sugar and Confectioners Sugar is the same thing. Basically, powdered sugar is granulated white sugar that has been finely ground and mixed with a little cornstarch. You can easily make powdered sugar at home.

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

I always add a teaspoon of pure vanilla to make a cake mix taste like homemade. You can get my homemade vanilla extract recipe here. It’s so easy to make your own vanilla.

When it came time to bake the cupcakes, I had symptoms of a cold and was feverish, so I resorted to a boxed mix, lots of handwashing, and made the frosting from scratch.

I guess I was a little delirious because halfway through the baking time, I realized I had done something I’ve never done before! I had left out the eggs – all three of them! Yikes! I just knew I’d have to redo the cupcakes!

Alas, when the baking time was up, the cupcakes looked great. So I asked my daughter and husband to eat one and they both proclaimed them delicious.

Then I remembered those recipes that call for a cola and a cake mix and realized I didn’t need the eggs at all. But, usually, I do add the eggs. 

That revelation caused me to look back and remember all the times I didn’t bake a cake because I was out of eggs. Dang.

I added nothing in place of the eggs because it was an oversight. The crumb of the cupcakes looked normal and tasted as good or better than when I add eggs.

The cupcakes didn’t fall apart. Actually, they were perfect. Go ahead and leave those eggs out if you don’t have eggs on hand. I’ll never tell!

 

Yield: 24 cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Print

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting have just the right amount of chocolate and peanut butter goodness.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 24 minutes

Additional Time 15 minutes

Total Time 49 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake mix ( add ingredients and prepare according to directions on box)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Frosting

• 1/2 cup butter, room temp.
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Place cupcake liners in tins and preheat oven to 350º. Mix cake mix according to directions on the box, adding a teaspoon of vanilla. Fill each cupcake liner 3/4 full of batter.

After baking according to package directions, let cool to room temperature.

Frosting

With a mixer, mix together butter and peanut butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar, a little at a time, and mix until smooth. Add whipping cream and vanilla. Beat for about 3 minutes. Frost cupcakes.

Nutrition Information

Yield

24

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 154Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 13mgSodium 95mgCarbohydrates 14gFiber 1gSugar 11gProtein 3g

Did you make this recipe?

Please leave a comment on the blog or share a photo on Facebook

 

If you love cupcakes, be sure and check out my Mango Peach Minions Cupcakes.

 

Orange Blossom Cupcakes are a big fave at my house, too!

The Cupcake Of All Cupcakes (An Alli Event Favorite!)

Lemon Cupcakes With Lemon Buttercream