Chocolate Peanut Butter filled cupcakes

November 21st, 2010 by justJENN

If are baking plain ol’ vanilla cupcakes, why not jazz ’em up (jazz hands!) by filling them with chocolate peanut butter?! Topped with a super light mascarpone frosting – when you bite into these, I promise you, you won’t know what hit you.

ingredients:
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter
1-3/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
2-1/4 cups cake flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla

Chocolate Peanut Butter
Mascarpone Frosting (recipe, here)

Let’s get this straight, there’s one place that knows peanut butter and does it right and that’s Peanut Butter and Co. in New York. You can find their products locally in your market or online.Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter is well, dreamy. So I thought a little dollop of that in the middle of a cupcake would be pure heaven. And I was right.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a cupcake pan with liners.

In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Carefully add the eggs one at a time until incorporated, then add the vanilla.

Now alternate milk with the dry ingredients until combined. Spoon the batter into prepped liners, bake 15-17 minutes depending on your oven. Let cool on a wire rack.

Once the cupcakes have cooled, using a cutter or a paring knife, simply cut out a little well in the middle.

Fill the well with a spoonful of the chocolate peanut butter.

Top the cupcake (covering the peanut butter surprise) with creamy, light mascarpone frosting. The vanilla cake, peanut butter and light frosting come together for the perfect bite!