Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

These are gorgeous!! For all you Peanut Butter fans out there, you are gonna love these.
If you have ever had Reece's Chocolate (American chocolate) before then these Cupcakes are like that. In New Zealand they could be compared to a Snickers Bar yum yum!!!
Also very easy to bake, and they smell amazing when they come out of the oven. Let me know when you've baked them, what you think.

Just remember when making these to make your filling first and lay it aside.

Filling Ingredients:
1 cup icing sugar
190g Peanut Butter (Smooth)
65g unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Cupcake Ingredients:
1 2/3 c plain flour
3/4 c dutch cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 c sour cream
4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
130g unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
250g cream cheese
65g unsalted butter
1/2 c peanut butter (smooth)
4 cups icing sugar

Firstly preheat your oven (remember to read my "The Oven" tab on my blog before turning on your oven). For me these made 24 cupcakes, so at this stage you can line your papers into the cupcake trays ready for baking.

Ok we are going to make our Filling first. Its real basic just put all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat the ingredients until mixed. Then roll into little balls about 1/2 the size of a golf ball and lay on baking paper until ready to use once your cupcake batter has been prepared.

So to make the Cupcake batter. In a bowl sift the following ingredients, plain flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt and set aside.
In another bowl mix together the sour cream, milk and vanilla essence and put aside.
In your mixer add the butter and the sugar and beat it all up, it will take about 2-3minutes. Then add the eggs one at a time making sure you scrap down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
Then lastly you can add your dry ingredients alternately with your wet ingredients, making sure you start and finish with the dry ingredients, I do it over 3 goes.
Ok the fun part. Put a spoonful of the cupcake batter into your cupcake liners and then put one of the peanut butter balls on top. Finally add another spoonful of batter and put the cupcakes into the oven. I baked them for 18 minutes, and when my baking skewer came out clean, I knew they were cooked.

Once the Cupcakes are cooled you can frost them.

To make the frosting. In a bowl add the cream cheese, butter and peanut butter and beat until smooth and creamy. Then slowly add the sifted icing sugar until you get the consistency and thickness you like. I used a Wilton tip 1M to frost the cupcakes and then sprinkled with grated dark chocolate shavings. Yummy!!!! Recipe sourced and adapted from Annie's Eats.

Happy Baking xxx