These mini fudge cupcakes are topped with the creamiest peanut butter frosting ever! If you like peanut butter and chocolate together you will LOVE this recipe!!
Ah peanut butter… I just crave it sometimes! Add chocolate and you pretty much have achieved perfection in the dessert world (at least in my humble, not-allergic-to-peanuts, view). These cupcakes are easy to make and they won’t last long! Here’s how to make them: (printable recipe)
INGREDIENTS: (makes about 40 mini cupcakes)
Cupcakes:
- 1 1/2 cups of dark chocolate chips
- 1 stick (4 oz.) salted butter
- 2 T. cocoa powder
- 4 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 c. sugar
Frosting:
- 3 sticks (1 1/2 cups) butter (softened to room temperature)
- 1 cup of creamy peanut butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- One bag of mini Reese cups (optional for decoration)
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate with butter in 30 second increments, stirring between until smooth and creamy.
- Whisk cocoa powder into melted chocolate.
- Add egg YOLKS and whisk until smooth. Set aside.
- Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites and whisk until foamy.
- Add sugar gradually to egg whites while beating on high until medium peaks form.
- Add 1/3 of egg whites to chocolate and mix well- until completely combined and smooth.
- Add remainder of egg whites and fold in gently until completely incorporated.
- Spoon batter into mini-cupcake liners in tins (fill about 3/4 full) and bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- To make frosting, place butter, vanilla, and peanut butter into a large bowl and mix on high until smooth (about a minute)
- Add powdered sugar and beat on low until combined and then on high until light and fluffy.
- Place frosting in a zip-top bag fitted with a decorating tip and pipe on top of each cooled cupcake.
- Top each cupcake with a mini Reese Cup and a sprinkle of cocoa powder (as desired)
- Enjoy!
My thoughts: Yum….! Yep, that pretty much sums up my thoughts…mmmmm….! I hope you enjoy these as much as I am right now!!!
Other peanut butter-y recipes you will love:
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As starving as I am now, I can practically taste the fudgy goodness and the creamy peanut butter A heavenly dessert that I will be trying as soon as I get home from vacations!
Thank you!!! I hope you love trying them out!!
No wonder that frosting tastes so good!
Haha!!! Now you know my secrets Noel!!! 🙂
The cupcakes look so decadent, rich and delicious!
They are very rich- but small :). Thanks for stopping by!!
Beautiful, I love the cupcake papers too, so colorful!!
These look amazing! I’m going to try them for my husband’s birthday in a few weeks. How long would they take to cook for regular sized cupcakes? Thanks for the awesome blog!
Peanut and chocolate is a match made in heaven 🙂 I’m usually not a huge cupcake fan, but yours look really delicious as well as the other peanut butter creations!
Ahh sounds divine!
Thanks- your blog made me smile- love the name- and cute top!! (I’m a sucker for daisies too…)
Looks gorgeous! 🙂 Love the cupcake wrappers too!
Thanks! I wanted plain brown, but I was out. Once they were out if the oven I was glad for the extra color they add:)
These are so pretty and pb & choc is just the best combo ever!
Thank you!!!!
These are so cute! And pb & chocolate is the best combo ever!
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These look sooo good! I love peanut butter way too much so I think I definitely need to make these in the near future. 🙂
Thank you- if you love peanut butter, you’ll definitely want to try these!
These look delicious. I just want to make sure – there is no flour in these?
It’s true! A flour-less cupcake recipe. It’s very dense and rich, you’re going to love it!
Hi,
Your cupcakes look so delicious and i want to make it ..
I have a question for the ingredient : 2 T. cocoa powder … what is mean the “T”? Is it mean tea spoon?
Thank you,
iin from indonesia
It’s Tablespoon when it’s a capital T. Sorry about that- I’ve gone back and typed out the whole word in most of my recipes, but you found one I missed!! Hope this helps!!
thank you very much.
That’s much help.
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