Chocolatey and moist Halloween peanut butter cupcakes, frosted with peanut butter frosting and decorated with cute chocolate spiderwebs and little spiders!
Halloween is just around the corner, so I’ll be baking lots of spooky treats and sharing the recipes with you!
I love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, I think it’s such a heavenly taste, and the perfect treat for any trick or treater! I whipped up my favorite chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with the best peanut butter frosting and decorated the cupcakes with little homemade chocolate spiderwebs and spiders.
The cupcakes are full of flavor. They are very chocolatey and fudgy, and the peanut butter adds so much to the flavor. I really think that chocolate and peanut butter are the best combination ever.
I really enjoyed decorating these cupcakes—look at how cute they are! I made little spiderwebs by piping melted white chocolate onto parchment paper and then placing the spiderwebs in the fridge for 5 minutes to harden. The same goes for the spiders. I used dark chocolate, but black icing can work, too.
I also created a printable PDF file with Spiderweb patterns that you can download and print! Cover it with parchment paper, and pipe out the cutest white chocolate spiderwebs to use as cupcake toppers.
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Halloween Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetend cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
For the frosting:
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
To decorate
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 50 grams dark chocolate or black icing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C), or 160°C for a fan oven, and line a muffin baking pan with 12 cupcake liners.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla extract.
- Stir in milk, then add the rest of the ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt), and mix until just combined but do not over mix. Mix in peanut butter. The batter won’t be very thick, sort of runny and that’s okay.
- Pour the batter into liners, and bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. When completely chilled, frost the cupcakes.
- To make frosting, combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat with a mixer.
- To make spiderwebs and spiders, download and print out this template. Melt white chocolate in a double boiler – a bowl placed on a saucepan with simmering water until completely melted.
- Transfer the melted white chocolate to a pipping bag (with Wilton tip 3), pipe out spiderweb shapes on the template covered with parchment paper, transfer to the fridge for 5 minutes to harden.
- To make the spiders, melt dark chocolate then pipe out spiders directly onto the spiderwebs (or use black icing). When they are set, decorate cupcake frosting with them.
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© Little Sunny Kitchen
Lisa says
What are the ingredients specifically for the frosting?