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Buckeye Cupcakes

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Chocolate cupcakes filled and frosted with a peanut butter buttercream.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE CUPCAKE:
  • ½ cups Cocoa Powder
  • ⅔ cups Boiling Water
  • ⅔ cups Bittersweet Chocolate, Chopped
  • 1-½ stick Butter, Softened
  • 1-½ cup Sugar
  • 4 whole Eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ¼ teaspoons Salt
  • 1 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • ½ cups Butter, Softenend
  • 1-¼ cup Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 4 cups Powdered Sugar
  • ½ cups Cream

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line two 12-count cupcake pans and set aside.

Place cocoa in a bowl. Pour boiling water over cocoa and whisk until smooth. Add chopped chocolate and stir until melted. Set aside.

In a mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla.

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet in 2 additions, adding the yogurt in between each addition. Mix just until incorporated. Then mix in the cocoa mixture until just incorporated.

Fill liners 1/3 full. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove pan from oven and set on a rack. Let cupcakes cool in pan.

For the frosting:
In a mixer bowl, combine butter and peanut butter, beating until smooth. Very slowly mix in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add in cream and beat until frosting is piping consistency, adding more cream if necessary.

To assemble, cut out a small hole into the center of each cupcake using a pairing knife or an Oxo cupcake corer. Pipe frosting into center of each cupcake. Then pipe your frosting using an 844 large tip onto each cupcake.

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sashreyn on 10.4.2013

When and where do you add the cocoa/chocolate?

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strandjss on 10.4.2013

The recipe sounds so yummy. I cannot wait to try them. Thanks

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Jennifer M. on 1.24.2016

These were really good. I’m going to ask my husband to make them again for my birthday. :)

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Jill on 10.8.2013

The batter to these cupcakes is devine! However, the icing was a flop. I’m not much on peanut butter but my hubby is & he didn’t like the icing either. I would like to tone down the peanut butter do some tweaking to it so it is not so strong.

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