Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Cup Cakes

"Buckeye Cup Cakes"

 

My husband is a graduate of Ohio State, and I usually make buckeye candies for him a few times through out the football season.  Tonight the buckeyes are playing Nebraska, and since we currently live in Nebraska this is a big deal.  This coupled with the fact that we are getting ready to move (PCS) we have a party to attend tonight to watch the game and say farewell to all our Nebraska friends.  So, I was trying to think of something new and tasty to make and bring with us.  In the past I have made milky way cup cakes, which were a big hit, so I thought - Why no peanut butter cup cakes?  They would have the same flavors that buckeye candy has, I could frost them with the same look, and it would be a fun twist.  So I tried them.  I used a box cake for my chocolate cake - how much easier can that be?  I just placed a mini Reese's peanut butter cup in the center of the batter of each cup cake before baking.  This melted nicely into the cake as it baked - leaving a creamy peanut butter center.  For frosting I just bought creamy white Pillsbury's frosting - already made.  In my mixer I added a 1/2 c of creamy peanut butter to the frosting.  This made a nice soft peanut butter frosting.  I piped this onto the entire cupcake.  Then, I used a pre-made chocolate frosting and piped it around the edge of the cupcakes - making it look like a buckeye nut and adding that yummy chocolate flavor.

These are chocolaty, peanut buttery, and delicious.  So good you don't have to be an Ohio State fan to enjoy them - even a Michigan fan would love them!  Hope you try them, and enjoy them as much as we did!

In the words of my husband... Go Bucks!