Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Peanut Butter Cupcakes

I got this in my email today.


The peanut butter cup substitutes for the frosting, which makes these little beauties very easy to make.










The recipe is from Taste of Home:

INGREDIENTS:

1/3 cup shortening
1/3 cup peanut butter
1-1/4 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
16 miniature peanut butter cups



DIRECTIONS:

In a mixing bowl, cream the shortening, peanut butter and brown sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk.

Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 1/4 cup of batter. Press a peanut butter cup into the center of each until top edge is even with batter. Bake at 350° for 22-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted on an angle toward the center of the cupcakes comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Yield: 16 cupcakes.

Nutrition Facts: 1 cupcake equals 238 calories, 10 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 29 mg cholesterol, 260 mg sodium, 33 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 5 g protein.

13 comments:

  1. Does that look yummy or what! I will be baking these up very soon.

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  2. I subscribe to this because of you. It's a perfect recipe as I have a humongous bag of peanut butter cups to make a dent in (thanks to my mom).

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  3. I like your new header too-is that near your yard?

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  4. Betty, BE sure to come back and let me know how they were since I have not made them yet. You, too, Dianne.

    Yes, Dianne, that is on the lot behind mine. I can see it from my deck when the maple leaves drop. It always makes for interesting pictures in the fall and winter.

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  5. These look yummy. Lots of good recipes posted this morning. As I was just telling Pea (who posted another yummy looking cookie) I had a few pounds follow me home from AK that I'm trying to get rid of!!
    xo

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  6. This one will be good for when my grandsons visit.
    Thanks, Zoey

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  7. Yum, I will have to keep the recipe handy.

    Love your new banner photo.

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  8. I sooo love your new header:-) I subscribe to Taste of Home and I had seen these peanut butter cupcakes...will have to give them a try! A while back they had a cookie recipe using the peanut butter cups and I make those often...so yummy. xox

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  9. Ooh we make a very similar cupcake. Except we use brownie mix instead. It's sooo yummy. They're addictive, be warned.

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  10. Well Zoey I made the peanut butter cupcakes...they are very yummy!! BUT the peanut butter cups don't show, the dough covered them up as they were baking and I did as the recipe said...mind you it's kind of nice to bite into one and find a surprise in the center.

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  11. Betty, Thanks so much for letting us know how they turned out. Isn't that just like a magazine to misrepresent them like that! They probably spent days to get those cupcakes in the picture to look so pretty.

    I guess you could always add peanut butter icing to pretty them up. :) I bet they would be even tastier.

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  12. I do hope that someone else tries them and lets you know how they turn out...they may have better luck than I did!
    I am not sorry I made them, as I said they were good and yes peanut butter icing might be wonderful, maybe even a chocolate frosting!

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  13. peanut butter icing with crumbled peanut butter cups on top??? :)

    I bet in that picture they made them then cut holes in the cake to insert the peanut butter cups.

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