These made-from-scratch bakery-style Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes (from a secret bakery recipe) are extra moist, flavorful and surprisingly easy to make! This recipe starts with my Moist and Fudgy Chocolate Cupcakes. Frost them with the creamiest and lightest Peanut Butter Buttercream and you will have the perfect match.
This is my latest featured Mix and Match Recipe. That means the made-from-scratch cake and buttercream are separate recipes through the links at the bottom of this page. Mix and Match recipes are meant to provide short-and-sweet small-batch cake, cupcake, frosting and filling recipes. You can get creative with your flavor combinations just like we did at Amycakes Bakery!
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For an extra chocolatey version of these peanut butter cup cupcakes, fill them with easy fudgy chocolate ganache for a "Peanut Butter Fudge" cupcake.
I hope you enjoy these Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes! Let me know what you think in the comment section below!
Thanks for Reading. ❤️
Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes: a Bakery Recipe
Select batch size within each recipe
Ingredients
- 1 x batch Moist and Fudgy Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1 to 2 x batch Creamy Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting depending on your preferred amount of frosting
- 1 x batch Easy Fudgy Chocolate Ganache optional, for drizzle or optional filling
- 18 Mini Peanut Butter Cups optional
Recommended Equiptment
Decoration Ideas
- To decorate these cupcakes I used a round cupcake tip and drizzled them with ganache drizzle from a squeeze bottle. I topped them with mini Reeses peanut butter cups.
The Recipes Needed to make these Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes:
Moist and Fudgy Chocolate Cupcakes
Fluffy Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting
Jaime says
Amy, I just want you to know how MUCH I love you AND your recipes. I made the peanut butter frosted ganache-filled chocolate cupcakes, and they are everything you said they would be. I made your recipe exactly, including the instant clear gel and I have to tell you, it is a total game changer like you said it would. Using a scale to measure my dry ingredients is just a must-have moving forward. Thank you for that tip. Happy baking!
Amy says
Thank you so much, Jaime! This made my day! So happy to hear you enjoyed the recipes. 🙂
Luca - Ruoka on valmis says
I love peanut butter and I would use it everywhere. These cupcakes are just perfection turned into a dessert!
Amy says
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Linda says
You got me at peanut butter frosting and chocolate ganache. Those two always make a perfect duet!
Erin Gierhart says
Peanut butter and chocolate may be my favorite flavor combination. These cupcakes did not disappoint! So very good!