Recipe: Perfect peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting

peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. The chocolate peanut butter frosting is simple. Start with butter, confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder, and milk or cream. Melted butter won't add the same level of moisture needed for this recipe.

I don't recommend using natural peanut butter (the kind that separates, you know the. These peanut butter cupcakes are for the true peanut butter lover - they are super peanuty, light, fluffy, and moist. They taste like peanut butter cookies in cupcake format, especially when topped with a swirl of peanut butter frosting. You can have peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting

1. It's of ingredients.
2. It's 1/3 cup of butter, softened.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of peanut butter.
4. You need 1 1/4 cup of packed brown sugar.
5. You need 1 of egg.
6. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
7. It's 2 cup of unbleached all purpose flour.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
11. You need 1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon.
12. It's 3/4 cup of 2% milk (or anything else you have).
13. Prepare of frosting.
14. It's 1/3 cup of peanut butter.
15. You need 2 cup of confectioners sugar.
16. Prepare 2 tsp of honey (tip: honey comes off easier if you dip measuring spoon in flour first).
17. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
18. Prepare 3 tbsp of or 4 tbls 2% milk.

This post also includes instructions to turn these cupcakes into. These Peanut Butter Cupcakes are soft, tender, and loaded with peanut butter flavor. I used oil instead of butter, brown sugar instead of regular sugar, and used cake flour. You can make your own cake flour by measuring out a cup of flour, removing a tablespoon, and replacing it with a tablespoon.

peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting instructions

1. In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition..
2. Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely..
3. For frosting, in a small bowl, cream peanut butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in honey and vanilla. Beat in enough milk to achieve a spreading consistency. Frost cupcakes. Yield: about 1-1/2 dozen..

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