Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes: a Bakery Recipe

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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!

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!

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Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes: a Bakery Recipe

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These bakery-style Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes (from a secret bakery recipe) are extra moist, flavorful and surprisingly easy to make! It all starts with moist and fudgy chocolate cupcakes. Frost them with the creamiest and lightest Peanut Butter Buttercream and you will have the perfect match.

This is a featured Mix and Match Recipe. The links below provide the recipes you need to make this cupcake flavor. Use these short and sweet small-batch recipes to create your favorite flavor combinations, just like we did at Amycakes Bakery.

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Yields 18 Cupcakes

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Ingredients

  

1x2x

• 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

• Round Cupcake Tip
• Disposable Frosting Bag
• Squeeze Bottle

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.
  

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The Recipes Needed to make these Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes:

Moist and Fudgy Chocolate Cupcakes

These bakery-style made-from-scratch chocolate cupcakes are moist and fudgy with a rich chocolate flavor–Combine them with your favorite fillings and frostings and you have the only chocolate cupcake recipe you'll ever need! From Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes to Chocolate-Covered Strawberry to Double Chocolate, you can mix and match the favorite flavors that we were known for at Amycakes Bakery.

If you have a kitchen scale, please select grams above the ingredients for the most accurate results. If you don’t have a scale, no worries!–just be sure to “spoon and level” your flour and cocoa, and to fully-pack your brown sugar into its measuring cup.

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Creamy Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting: a Bakery Recipe

This bakery-style peanut butter buttercream frosting is light and creamy with a delicious melt-in-your-mouth texture. Use it to frost your favorite cake or cupcakes.

A 1x batch will frost and fill one 6" three-layer cake or about 14 cupcakes generously.

A 2x batch will frost and fill one 8" three-layer cake or about 28 cupcakes generously.

If you have a kitchen scale, please select the grams (g) measurements for the most accurate results. If you don’t have a scale, no worries!–just be sure to “spoon and level” your dry ingredients.

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Easy Fudgy Chocolate Ganache

This fudgy chocolate ganache cake and cupcake filling is incredibly easy with only two ingredients! It is deliciously rich and fudgy and received many compliments at Amycakes Bakery. This versatile chocolate ganache recipe can be used as a cake filling, cupcake filling, or drizzle.

A 1x batch will fill one 6" three-layer cake or about 18 cupcakes with a little extra for drizzling. It yields 280 grams.

A 2x batch will fill one 8" three-layer cake or about 36 cupcakes with a little extra for drizzling. It yields 560 grams.

If you have a kitchen scale, please select grams above the ingredients for the most accurate results.

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