Friday, 4 January 2013

Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting

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I decided to make chocolate, peanut butter cupcakes topped with reese's pieces for my brother. He absolutely loves peanut butter and chocolate, so does Daniel. So these obviously didn't last five minutes. I'm pretty sure the dogs were eyeing them up too..

What you will need: 
what you will need

Betty crocker cake mix, 3 medium eggs, sunflower oil, icing sugar, peanut butter, milk, unsalted butter 

Place the cake mix, 250ml of water, 3 medium sized eggs, 6tbsp of sunflower oil and mix until the mixture is nice and smooth. This takes quite a bit of elbow grease but I don't like using electric whisks I have visions of the mixture ending up all over the kitchen. But if you're not afraid of electric whisks by all means go ahead.. I then scooped the mixture into two silicone cupcake trays. This mixture made 12 cupcakes in total.

chocolate cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 180 and leave to bake for 20 minutes. ( the iPhone timer app comes in handy at this point) Leave the cakes to cool then you should have something which looks like this! The thing I love about Betty crocker cake mix is the mixture is always nice and moist. Whilst the cakes are cooling it's time to make the frosting...

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Drool.. to make this delicious peanut butter icing you will need 115g of butter (softened) I used 150g of crunchy peanut butter, you can use more if you want but I'm glad I didn't as the peanut butter flavour was very strong with the 150g of peanut butter I used! Add 240g of icing sugar and stir.. I added semi skimmed milk as needed..

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I then decorated the 12 cupcakes with generous helpings of peanut butter frosting and topped with reese's pieces to finish them off. I hope my brother likes them! Daniel sure did! What do you guys think?

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48 lovely comments:

  2. These look simply delicious - I love anything with peanut butter.

    Hannah www.cagneyandlace.com

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  3. I'm a peanut butter junkie, so I'll definitely be giving these a go - they look amazing xx

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  4. I love peanut butter but I never would have thought of peanut butter icing! Gonna have to give that a go x
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  5. They look amazing! I'm yet to cook with peanut butter but using it as an icing seems a good starting point x

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  6. They look and sound so freaking yummy! It's making me hungry just looking at them! xxx

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  7. This looks so yummy! I need to try these!

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  8. OMG I love peanut butter! These look great! xo

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  9. Mmmmm, these cupcakes look lovely. I may have to get my bake on now and try them out.
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  10. Looks delicious!! I love peanut butter icing!! =)

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  11. These look delicious I feel like running out to the shops right now and buying all those ingredients :)

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  12. I love your pictures. Looks amazing x

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  13. Those look so so so good! Ahhh, I'm going to have to make some of my own now. I wish I could get away with using ready mixed cake stuff, but I'm allergic to eggs so it makes my life waay too difficult!
    xxx

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  14. OMG this looks delicious!! I want to try this! xx

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  15. These are making me hungry!x

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  16. these look divine!

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  17. These look amazing, I must try them! xx

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  18. This would be perfect for me - I LOVE reese's pieces!!!

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  19. Love this! I love baking and not many bloggers post recipes like this :) I'll definitely be trying this out! xo

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  20. They look amazing! I'll have to give them a go xx

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  21. YUMMMMM These look and sound so so good!
    Daniella x

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  22. foodgasmic as usual <3

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  23. Ooh my this looks fabulous! definitely need to try this :) Mmm

    xoVictoria

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  24. These look amazing! I love your food posts :)
    xx

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  25. This is my dream cupcake! love peanut butter these look so tasty xx

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  26. Oh my! These look lovely! I've never made peanut butter icing before, but I definitely will be in the future after reading this post!

    xxxx

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  27. They look lush lovely I'm just not a fan of peanut butter but still they look amazing and bet the chocolate sponge is scrumptious!

    Eda ♥

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  28. This is making me drool! How yummy do they look, need to try this (although Sam may not be as keen!) x

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  29. These remind me of the peanut butter cupcakes that I had from Sprinkles a little while ago, it was so delicious! I'm going to have to try and make these sometime soon.
    xo, Maria

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  30. Yum! My tummy is rumbling. Will have try making these :) x

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  31. I eat peanut butter out of the jar so this is right up my street! I really fancy making some of these!

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  32. Mmmh that looks yummy!!
    xx
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  33. mmm, they look delicious

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  35. Oh wow, these look amazing! I always love your recipes Becky, thank you for sharing another with us :)
    I hope you're having a lovely week! xxx

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  36. i love your recipes. they're foolproof and so easy and so tasty! love these posts :)
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  37. Lovely and sinful! I'm going to make cookies to stock up the empty cookie jars at home soon! ^^

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  38. These look delicious! Love these posts and your photos are always beautiful xx

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  39. These look amazing! I'm now craving cake.

    Have a beautiful day

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  40. Oh my gosh! This is like heaven in a cake case... I could so demolish some of these right now :) xx
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  42. They look amazing! I was thinking of making peanut butter cakes this morning but my brother doesn't like it (?!). I always love your baking posts, and you photograph your food so well :)

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  44. hi becky, i found your blog through Fee from makeupsavvy's blog recommendations in her recent post, and i'm so glad she gave you a shoutout coz i absolutely love your blog. everything looks so adorable and i can't wait to catch up on your older posts, newest follower here :)

    rachel x

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  45. You have to stop posting these... making me SERIOUSLY HUNGRY! haha :)

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  46. Oh wow these look yummy!! Never actually tried Betty Crocker cake mix, I usually make mine from scratch but these look so yummy and moist I may have to try them! XxxX http://thesecondhandrose.blogspot.co.uk

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  47. they look delicious , i just cant make cakes LOl .

    I love youe blog *-*

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  48. These look incredible, I'm most definitely going to be trying these out!

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