Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

These Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes are always a huge hit at parties! Decadent chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and a surprise Reese’s chocolate cup baked in the center.

Did you guys see my Facebook Live broadcast over the weekend? I was putting the finishing touches on these insanely delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes and showing you my process of taking the pictures.  It was torture not to gobble them up in the process, I could smell the amazing peanut butter frosting and of course knowing that the chocolate cupcakes held a surprise peanut butter cup inside didn't help! 

Luckily for me we were attending a party that evening and I was able to package these babies up to gift to the hosts-they wouldn't have lasted long if I had kept them in the house!

I started these the easy way-boxed cake mix.  Sometimes you don't need to complicate things, you know? Besides, with peanut butter frosting this amazing you don't need a whole lot else.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake Ingredients:

• 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix, prepared according to package directions
• miniature Reese's peanut butter cups
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 2 cups powdered sugar

You might also like these peanut butter desserts:

• Peanut Butter Soft Batch Cookies
• Nutella Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookie
• Reese's Triple Trifle

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Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews

• Author: Melissa Riker
• Prep Time: 10 min
• Cook Time: 20 min
• Total Time: 30 minutes
• Yield: 24 1x
• Category: Dessert
• Method: baking
• Cuisine: American

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Description

These Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes are always a huge hit at parties! Decadent chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and a surprise Reese’s chocolate cup baked in the center.

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Ingredients

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• 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix, prepared to batter according to package directions
• miniature Reese's peanut butter cups
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 2 cups powdered sugar

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
3. Prepare cake mix according to package instructions.
4. Place an peanut butter cup in the middle of each cupcake liner.
5. Spoon cake batter over peanut butter cups and bake according to package instructions.
6. Allow to cool fully before frosting.
7. Mix butter, peanut butter, milk and powdered sugar in a mixer on medium speed for 2-3 minutes, scraping down sides as needed.
8. Pipe icing on cooled cupcakes, topping with another peanut butter cup.

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Nutrition

• Serving Size:
• Calories: 256
• Sugar: 16.5 g
• Sodium: 115.2 mg
• Fat: 18.8 g
• Carbohydrates: 19.6 g
• Protein: 4.8 g
• Cholesterol: 34.3 mg

Keywords: reese's cupcakes

This recipe was originally published in May 2016 and updated in July 2019.