Monday, April 22, 2013

Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting!

First thing's first.... A few months ago I made some cupcakes that were pure perfection!  I have never had so many requests for a recipe in my life so I knew these weren't just good in my opinion.  These are easy to whip up last minute and all of these recipes were in our pantry already.  I wanted to share this spin I created based on a few recipes. (Please excuse the picture I will have better in the future)


Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting Recipe 

inspired by: Cupcakes, Frosting


Cupcake:


  • 1/3 cup soft butter
  • 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
  • 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/3 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup 2% milk
Frosting:
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter at room temperature
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2/3 cup Nutella
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp 2% milk
Instructions:
- Set oven to 350 degrees and line muffin tin with muffin cups
- In a large bowl cream the butter, peanut butter, and sugar until smooth
- In smaller bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon
- Add dry ingredients alternating with milk to the peanut butter mixture and mix well
- Fill muffin cups 2/3 of way up with mixture (depending on peanut butter used mixture may be thick more like a bread)
- Bake for 18-22 minutes at 350, insert toothpick at 18 minutes- once it comes out clean they're finished
- While baking begin frosting, mix butter and powdered sugar in a medium bowl until well blended
- Add Nutella and beat at medium speed for about 2 minutes
- Add vanilla and salt and beat on low until well blended
- Add milk and beat for about 1 minute and stick in refrigerator
- Cool cupcakes for 2 minutes and remove from pan to wire rack and let sit 10 minutes then frost and serve
Enjoy!  And let me know what you think.

4 comments:

  1. what about the egg? Where does that come in?

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    1. wait? and how much flour? there's no menchion of that...

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  2. Interesting and useful information that you have provided here on your post.Thank




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  3. I put 1.5 cups flour and 1 tsp. Salt. I also just mixed the egg in the wet ingredients and beat it for about a minute. It makes a very moist cake, and I think if you don't fill the cupcake tin with too much batter the cupcakes would work well too.

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