Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes: a Bakery Recipe

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.

Moist and Fudgy Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

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!

More Delicious Cupcake Recipes

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

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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

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

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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.

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Fluffy Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting

This melt-in-your-mouth "bakery-style" peanut butter cream cheese frosting from Amycakes Bakery is light, creamy and delicious. 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 and a 2x batch will frost and fill one 8" three-layer cake or about 28 cupcakes generously.

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

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Comments

Jaime says

November 09, 2022 at 3:16 pm

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
  
  November 14, 2022 at 11:03 pm
  
  Thank you so much, Jaime! This made my day! So happy to hear you enjoyed the recipes. 🙂
Luca - Ruoka on valmis says

August 12, 2021 at 3:11 pm

I love peanut butter and I would use it everywhere. These cupcakes are just perfection turned into a dessert!
- Amy says
  
  August 15, 2021 at 5:41 am
  
  Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Linda says

August 11, 2021 at 1:18 pm

You got me at peanut butter frosting and chocolate ganache. Those two always make a perfect duet!
Erin Gierhart says

August 11, 2021 at 9:01 am

Peanut butter and chocolate may be my favorite flavor combination. These cupcakes did not disappoint! So very good!