If you love peanut butter, these cupcakes are for you. Easy to make, super flavorful, and perfect for birthdays, bake sales, or weeknight treats.
Course
desserts
Cuisine
American, Cupcakes
Keyword
Easy Peanut Butter Cupcakes, How to Make Peanut Butter Cupcakes, Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Prep Time15minutes
Cook Time25minutes
Total Time40minutes
Servings24
Authormomma lew
Ingredients
3cupscake flour
1cupsugar
1cuplight brown sugarpacked
1 ½teaspoonsbaking powder
½teaspoonbaking soda
1teaspoonsalt
¾cup1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, melted
¼cupvegetable oil
1cupcreamy peanut butter
3eggsroom temperature
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
1cupsour cream
¼cupbuttermilk
1cupcreamy peanut butter
1cup2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
3cupspowdered sugar
Pinchsalt
2tablespoonsmilk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Spritz the cupcake liners with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
To the dry ingredients, add the melted butter and oil, beating until blended into the flour mixture using a hand mixer or electric mixer. The mixture will be thick like a cookie dough.
Mix the peanut butter into the dough until equally blended.
To the batter, add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition and scraping down the sides as needed.
Next, beat in the vanilla, sour cream, and buttermilk until evenly mixed.
Using a large cookie scoop, spoon batter into muffin cups about ⅔ full.
Bake the cupcakes for 22 to 25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick in the middle returns clean.
Remove the cupcakes from the oven and allow to cool completely on a wire rack prior to frosting.
For the peanut butter buttercream frosting: Beat together the peanut butter and butter until creamy. Add the powdered sugar and salt, beating until the mixture is smooth. Add the milk to the frosting, scraping down the sides, and beat until fluffy or about 1 minute.
Transfer the frosting to a piping bag and decorate the top of the cupcakes as desired.