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Home » Recipes » Dessert » Cupcakes » Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

By: Rebecca  |  Published: January 19, 2014  |  Updated: January 23, 2018  |   View Our Affiliate Disclosure Policy

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Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream! via @sugarandsoulco

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cupcakes

Last night we celebrated my mom’s birthday, and I was put in charge of dessert. She wanted Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes, her favorite, now, of course, I couldn’t make just a simple Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes, I needed to make it more fun than that. It was the perfect opportunity to try out the surprise cake technique I’ve been seeing all over Pinterest, only in a cupcake.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter are on of my favorite cake/cupcake flavor combos, though isn’t it everyone’s? There’s just something about a moist chocolate cake topped with silky peanut butter buttercream. Did I mention that Reese’s cup on top? Yeah, that makes it pretty good too!

Oh, but the surprise, yeah, that’s the best part! I cored out the cupcakes and filled them with mini Reese’s Pieces.

Awesome, right?

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

The Reese’s Pieces surprise was a lot of fun, and it would have been an actual surprise if Matt hadn’t told everyone. The Reese’s Pieces added great texture and I’ll never make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes without them again!

SO GOOD!

Plus that creamy peanut butter frosting is pretty damn good too!

So what are you waiting for? Whip up a batch, grab a gallon of milk, and enjoy!

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Surprise Cupcakes

Rebecca Hubbell
Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 Cupcakes
Calories 225

Ingredients
  

Cupcake:

  • 1 Box Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
  • 3.9 oz. Package Jell-O Instant Chocolate Pudding
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 cup Sour Cream
  • 3/4 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/4 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 1/2 cup Mini Chocolate Chips
  • 1 bag Mini Reese's Pieces
  • 24 bag Mini Reese's Cups

Frosting:

  • 1 batch Best Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe

Instructions
 

Cupcakes:

  • Preheat oven to 375 F.
  • Line cupcake pan.
  • Combine all ingredients in a stand mixer and beat until combined.
  • Fill cupcake liners 1/2 - 3/4 full.
  • Reduce heat to 350 F.
  • Bake for 18-22 minutes until toothpick comes clean.
  • Remove from oven and move cupcakes to cooling racks to finish cooling.
  • Use a cupcake corer to core the cupcakes, fill the holes with mini Reese's Pieces.

Frosting:

  • Cream Butter using a paddle attachment.
  • Add vanilla and peanut butter and beat until well mixed.
  • Add confectioners' sugar a cup at a time, alternating with heavy cream.
  • Whip on medium high speed for 2-3 minutes until frosting is light and fluffy.
  • Pipe frosting onto cupcakes.
  • Top each cupcake with a Reese's cup.
  • For added wow, Use a small frosting tip to frost the Reese's cup!

Nutrition

Calories: 225kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 2gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 200mgPotassium: 89mgSugar: 14gVitamin A: 135IUVitamin C: 0.2mgCalcium: 60mgIron: 1.1mg
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Surprise Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!

Peanut Butter Surprise Cupcakes - Moist dark chocolate cupcakes filled with a surprise and topped with silky peanut butter buttercream!
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  1. Kim says

    May 13, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    Hi there —

    Just reading over the recipe and am curious as to whether you bake the cupcakes for any time at 375 prior to lowering the heat to 350? If not, just wondering what the temperature change does for these 🙂

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    • Rebecca Hubbell says

      May 14, 2019 at 9:23 am

      Hi Kim, you lower the temperature as soon as you put the cupcakes in the oven, so the oven temperature is still 375 when you put it in but set at 350. The initial shock of the high temp helps give the cupcakes a nice dome top and rise, but is too hot to bake the cupcakes at for the whole time.

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  2. Ashley says

    September 22, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    When I baked these up (I was so excited for them!) and let them cool, they fell in the middle. They still were like a molten lava cake more than a cupcake. I baked them for 20 mins and the toothpick came out clean. Could it be that they needed more baking time?

    Reply
    • Rebecca says

      September 23, 2016 at 11:08 am

      Hi Ashley, I’m sorry to hear that these didn’t turn out for you. The base cupcakes recipe is the one I make most often of all my recipes and I’ve never had this issue. It’s weird that the toothpick came clean yet they were molten on the inside. Usually, 18-22 minutes should bake them perfectly.

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      • Mary says

        June 13, 2018 at 7:21 am

        What piping tip did you use on the mini peanut butter cup?

      • Rebecca Hubbell says

        June 14, 2018 at 10:41 am

        Hi Mary, I used a small star tip similar to the one you see in this set that’s in the middle row and second from the left: https://amzn.to/2MsB55R

      • SANDI says

        July 27, 2019 at 12:16 pm

        MAKE SURE BKING POWDER POUR INTO A BOWL MEASURE FROM THERE AFTER A STIR

      • Rebecca Hubbell says

        July 28, 2019 at 10:25 am

        Hi Sandi, there’s no baking powder used in this recipe.

      • Tina says

        February 10, 2020 at 2:44 pm

        3 stars
        I know this is old, but I just made these and mine sank too. They were done in the middle, tho. I think the oven temp is too high for these cupcakes. They are very light and moist. I bake a lot of cupcakes and have never had them fall before. Starting with a lower oven temp and mixing by hand might help with falling cupcakes. They were very light and moist and good tasting, though. I would have started with a lower temp to begin with, but I always try recipes as written first before trying to change them. I like the idea of these, but will probably use my usual from-scratch chocolate cupcake recipe with this concept if I make again.

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