Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Brownie Cupcakes
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Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
Brownies
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup flour
  • ⅓ cup cocoa powder
  • ¼ tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ½ cup chocolate chips
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ¼ cups brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 10 snack-size peanut butter cups
Peanut Butter Frosting
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1½ cup confectioners' sugar
  • 2 Tbs. milk, or until desired
Decoration
  • 5 snack-size peanut butter cups, halved
Instructions
Brownies
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Place liners into a cupcake pan.
  2. In a large saucepan, melt butter. Remove from heat.
  3. In a bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Add in chocolate chips.
  4. In the melted butter saucepan, mix in white sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk in flour mixture until blended.
  5. Fill each liner ¾ full with a peanut butter cup in the middle of the batter.
  6. Bake for 18 minutes or until done. Allow to cool for 5 minutes and then remove from pan.
Peanut Butter Frosting
  1. In a bowl, beat together butter and peanut butter.
  2. Gradually mix in confectioners' sugar and the milk as needed.
  3. Beat frosting for 5 minutes.
Decoration
  1. Pipe the peanut butter frosting on top of each cooled brownie cupcake.
  2. Place a peanut butter cup half on top of each frosted brownie cupcake.
Recipe by Sugar, Spice and Family Life at https://sugarspiceandfamilylife.com/2017/09/peanut-butter-cup-stuffed-brownie-cupcakes-recipe.html