Welcome to day two of Cupcake Week! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I have just one thing to say.
Chocolate + Peanut Butter = True Love.
Forever.
Amen.
This chocolate and peanut butter fudge swirled cupcake is topped with two of my absolute favorite frostings ever: Peanut Butter Buttercream and Sweet Milk Chocolate Ganache.
I love this sweet milk chocolate ganache frosting. It’s rich, fudgy, and I love that it stays super dark in color.
It’s indulgent, decadent, and very, very naughty.
These make super cute mini cupcakes, too!
Here are the four recipes you’ll need below for the chocolate cake, peanut butter cake, and both frostings, along with a link to instructions on how to pipe swirled frosting.
Happy Valentine’s Day, dear friends! Enjoy!
Chocolate Swirled Peanut Butter Blast Cupcakes
The Best Chocolate Cake Ever
1 box devil’s food cake mix
1 small pkg Jello instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups mini chocolate chips
In a very large bowl, mix together everything except chocolate chips until well combined. Batter will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Recipe via Kevin & Amanda
Peanut Butter Cake
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
1 box butter cake mix
2/3 cup water
In the workbowl of a mixer, combine 1/2 cup peanut butter and 1/2 cup butter. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add eggs one at time, mixing well after each addition. Add approximately 1/3 of the cake mix and 1/3 of the water, and mix on low speed until just combined. Repeat 2 more times with remaining cake mix and water.
Recipe via All Recipes
Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp vanilla extract
Place the peanut butter, butter, sugar, cream and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 3-5 minutes. If necessary, add more cream, one tablespoon at a time, beating for 1-2 minutes after each addition until desired consistency is reached.
Sweet Milk Chocolate Ganache
1.5 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Place chocolate chips in a glass or heat-proof bowl. In a medium saucepan, whisk the heavy cream, vanilla, and sugar and bring to a simmer. Pour over the chocolate chips, let sit for 5 minutes, then whisk until completely smooth. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour or until the ganache reaches a thick, frosting consistency.
Note: I warned you it was sweet :) I absolutely love it and think it’s perfect the way it is — plain or when paired with the peanut butter buttercream above. But you can leave out the sugar and/or use a darker chocolate if you’ve ever not liked a dessert because it was “too sweet”. Me, personally, that’s never happened! :)
Cupcake Assembly
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and line standard-sized muffin tins. Add approximately 2 tbsp of peanut butter cake batter first, then 2 tbsp of chocolate cake batter to each tin. I used this cookie scoop from OXO, found at Target. Use a spoon or knife to gently fold and swirl cake batter. For STANDARD cupcakes, bake at 350 for 18-22 minutes. For MINI cupcakes, add approximately 2 teaspoons of each batter to mini muffin tins, and bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
How to Pipe Swirled Frosting
Katie at Good Life Eats has a fabulous tutorial for this neat swirled frosting technique:
Top with crushed mini Reese’s cups.
Enjoy!
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32 Comments
Chocolate + Peanut Butter = True Love, for me too!
And that PB frosting…ohmygoodness that looks so fluffy and puffy and amazing.
Nothing is ever too rich or too sweet for me, either!
Oh my yuminess!!!! I am IN LOVE with these!
Mmmmmmmmmmm :-) Enjoy your Valentine’s Day!
Totally NEED this. WOW!
that frosting is calling my name in a big, big way!
Oh my Lord this looks right up my alley. The Mr would love it too.
Do you know if you could sub greek yogurt for the sour cream? I assume you could but don’t want to ruin the recipe.
I’m loving this cupcake week! All of these cupcakes look amazing!
ok so i thought yesterday’s was the winner but now i’m perplexed. bookmarking in 3…2…1
These look so delicious I can’t wait to make them. Thanks for sharing with us!
If I could have a relationship with food, it would be this.
I LOVE cupcake week! Bring it on! (Happy Valentine’s Day to you! Perfect cupcake for today!)
These look SO good!!
I absolutely agree – chocolate isn’t complete without peanut butter!
Woah! You take the most amazing photos. I really enjoy reading your posts. Thanks for sharing this rediculous cupcake. It looks amazing.
Omigosh, that looks good! And just in time for my Girl’s Day party, too. Thank you!!!
Amazingly delicious!
you have taken chocolate and peanut butter to a whole new level!! These look so over the top delicious!!
Love this combo – and in frosting and cake? Yes please :D
I would love to try a Nutella version for the chpcolate ;)
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OH THANK YOU for posting the pb frosting today. Getting ready to make your buttercream right now.
First of all, the photography of those cupcakes is outstanding! I feel like I can smell it’s sweetness. Great job. I am looking forward to more cupcakes from ya. Yum!
Oh for the love, these look so delicious! Yum, yum, give me the ingredients to make ‘em!
Pinned in my recipes to try!
These look like heaven absolutely…… Ummmmm Yummmmmmmmm. !
Never a massive cupcake fan. But now I realize it’s because my cupcakes never look this good. These look amazing Amanda! I hope that if I stare long enough the images will appear before me.
Yes, please!!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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oh they look delicious, love chocolate and peanut butter :)
Oh My Gosh! YUM! Please come over to Cast Party Wednesday and share this awesome recipe. Thanks. I hope to see you there! –Sheryl–
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Chocolate + Peanut Butter, I’m dying here! Mmm
Peanut Butter + Chocolate = True Love indeed! Such a decadent and much deserved treat for Valentine’s Day. Beautiful photos as always!
I had to try this recipe for my birthday cupcakes and they did not disappoint. I didn’t have time to make 2 batches of cake mix, so I only made the chocolate one.
They were great!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
I must try the peanut. It is my weakness.
is it possible to put the two batters together into the same mixer and just mix them that way?