Sequins in the South

Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Corinne Schmitt — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:00:33 +0000

Obsessed much with cupcakes? I am. No shame, seriously. Especially when the result is a cupcake as magnificent as these Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes. So full of awesome flavor and deep rich tones, this is like eating a soft, squishy cake version of Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Mmmmm…

Like, for real, if you’re into peanut butter and chocolate being married and making a baby, this is the cupcake baby they made and you’ve got to give it a try! LOL!

I just can’t tell you enough times how fabulous this easy cupcake recipe is. And that melty chocolate over the top of the peanut butter frosting? I seriously need to bake another batch, they’re just so wonderful.

if you’re in the mood for a little chocolate peanut butter cupcake action, grab your decorating bag and let’s do this!

Ingredients Needed

This is a very simple cupcake recipe that’s no-fail. Seriously, anyone can make these–and the eggs, oh, that’s right, no eggs. So no worrying about whether they’re still good or if they’ve gone flat…you just make the cupcakes and they’ll work. Here’s what you need:

2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
1 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips

How to Make these Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Step 1

To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350-degrees then combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.

Step 2

Combine wet ingredients (including butter) in a second medium sized bowl.

Step 3

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in ⅓ increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment and spoon into lined cupcake pan.

Step 4

Bake for 30-minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cupcakes completely before decorating.

Step 5

With your largest decorating tip, press into the top of the cupcake off-center, creating a well. Save hole tops.

Step 6

Place 1 tablespoon of peanut butter into each cupcake well. Replace hole top on each cupcake.

Step 7

Scoop your frosting into a medium sized bowl and combine with 1/4 cup peanut butter.

Step 8

Place frosting in a decorating bag, and swirl onto cupcakes.

Step 9

Place chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on high in 30-second increments, stirring between each increment, until the chocolate is completely melted.

Step 10

Drizzle the melted chocolate over the top of each cupcake.

Step 11

Allow chocolate to set by letting the cupcakes rest on the counter for 10-15 minutes.

Step 12

Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Ingredients

2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
1 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Other Great Cupcake Recipes

If you love this easy cupcake decorating idea, but you’re not quite ready to bust out your jar of peanut butter just yet, just pin this to your favorite cupcake decorating ideas board on Pinterest so you can find it quick later!

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Corinne Schmitt — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:00:40 +0000

I really love making fun and easy cupcake recipes. These cookies and cream cupcakes are one of those super easy recipes that I can make, enjoy and make again anytime.

Plus, you know, kids think that cupcakes are somehow more of a treat than just having a plain cookie. So, this is a fun way for you to have a “fancy” dessert for a party or playdate that’s really just cookies and cupcakes coming together really quick.

And even though I used canned frosting, if you’re into making your own buttercream, you can certainly do that. It just adds about 10 minutes to my overall baking experience and sometimes I’m just not into it.

It’s nice having a recipe using canned frosting sometimes, when you can just bang-out the cupcakes and not worry about anything more than just the cupcake batter. Right?!

If you’re ready to make an easy cupcake recipe with OREO cookies, grab your favorite whisk and let’s do it.

What You Need to Make this Cookies and Cream Cupcakes Recipe

2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup crushed OREO cookies

How to Make these OREO Cookie Cupcakes

Step 1

To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350-degrees then combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.

Step 2

Combine wet ingredients (including butter) in a second medium sized bowl.

Step 3

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in ⅓ increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment and spoon into lined cupcake pan.

Step 4

Bake for 30-minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cupcakes completely before decorating.

Step 5

With your largest decorating tip, press into the top of the cupcake off-center, creating a well. Save hole tops.

Step 6

Place 1 tablespoon of crushed cookies into each cupcake well. Replace hole top on each cupcake.

Step 7

Place frosting in a decorating bag, and swirl onto cupcakes.

Step 8

Top each cupcake with more crushed cookies.

Step 9

Enjoy!

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Ingredients

2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup crushed OREO cookies

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
In a separate bowl, cream together vanilla, water, and butter.
Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, mixing between each addition.
Spoon batter into lined cupcake pan.
Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely.
Use a large decorating tip to create a well in the center of each cupcake. Reserve the pieces.
Add one tablespoon of crushed Oreo cookies into each well. Replace the plug in each well.
Place prepared frosting in a decorating bag. Frost each cupcake swirling from the outer edge to the center.
Top each cupcake with additional crushed cookies.

Other Great Cupcake Recipes

If you love this easy cupcake decorating idea, but you’re not quite ready to bust out your OREO cookies just yet, just pin this to your favorite cupcake decorating ideas board on Pinterest so you can find it quick later!

Princess Anna Mickey Ears Cupcakes

Corinne Schmitt — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:00:59 +0000

I’ve gotten on a kick lately of making cupcakes. And one of my favorites is this easy recipe for Princess Anna Mickey Ears Cupcakes. They’re so fun, representing my as-of-late favorite Disney princess in cupcake form, it’s really no surprise that this is something I’d really enjoy doing.

Plus, they’re WAY easier than they look. All that decadent frosting? Its from a can. The ears with Anna’s dress represented on them? That’s just frosting painted on fondant.

Seriously, they’re that simple. Even the fun blue-teal-fade I’ve got going on with the cupcake liners? Not even kidding you, that’s just a blue cupcake liner, nothing fancy–it did that on it’s own when I baked the cupcakes.

So, grab your favorite canned frosting and an old paintbrush–and a few drops of food coloring, and let’s get making this sugar-sweet-royal-treat!

What You Need to Make this Princess Anna Mickey Ears Cupcakes Recipe

2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tspn baking soda
1/2 tspn salt
2 tspn vanilla
1 cup water
1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
1 package black fondant
Powdered sugar for dusting your fondant
Purple sprinkles
Dark Blue Sprinkles
Edible gold glitter
Gel food coloring in:
- Light Blue
- Red
- Black
- Purple

How to Make these Frozen Cupcakes

Step 1

To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350-degrees then combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.

Step 2

Combine wet ingredients (including butter) in a second medium sized bowl.

Step 3

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in ⅓ increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment and spoon into lined cupcake pan.

Step 4

Bake for 30-minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cupcakes completely before decorating.

Step 5

With your largest decorating tip, press into the top of the cupcake off-center, creating a well. Save hole tops.

Step 6

Place 1/2 tablespoon dark blue sprinkles into each cupcake well. Replace hole top on each cupcake.

Step 7

Start making the Mickey ears for Anna’s dress by rolling the black fondant out on a piece of parchment paper to about ⅛-inch thick, lightly dusting with powdered sugar, as needed.

You definitely want the fondant to be thick, because you want the ears to stand up independently. So don’t make the fondant too thin–floppy ears are no fun.

Step 8

Cut out 24 fondant rounds with a 1 or 2-inch round cookie cutter. Remove the excess fondant from the circles so they hold their shape (as opposed to trying to pick up the fondant circles themselves).

Set aside the fondant Mickey ears for a minimum of two hours to dry–it’ll be even better if you can leave them on the counter overnight.

If you dusted with powdered sugar, you can remove that by simply patting the ear shapes down with a damp paper towel or brushing them with your damp paintbrush you’re going to use later.

Step 9

When the fondant Mickey ears are dried out to your liking, make some light blue icing by adding 5-10 drops of blue food coloring to 1/2 of the canned frosting and stirring to combine.

Step 10

With a bit of this blue icing, using your paint brush, paint the top of Anna’s dress bodice’s “V” shape on each of the black fondant circles.

Step 11

Combine a wee bit (about 3-5 drops) of water with about 1 teaspoon of edible glitter. With your small paintbrush or even a toothpick, paint the fondant Mickey ears with swirls and do a little outline of the “V” shape–kind of like Anna’s dress bodice.

Step 12

Combine about ½ teaspoon of frosting with 2 drops of red food coloring, 1 drop of black and 1 drop of purple to make a kind of burgundy color. Use this burgundy icing to paint little jewels on the center of the bodice and anywhere else, as desired.

Allow this icing to dry for about 10-15 minutes on the counter.

Step 13

Place about 2/3 of the leftover white and every dollop of the leftover blue frosting into your decorating bag with the largest star tip you own.

Frost each cupcake with about half of the icing you’d normally put on a cupcake.

Step 14

Add purple sprinkles on top of the frosting on the cupcakes.

Step 15

Tuck two fondant ears into each cupcake, one on each side.

Promptly place the cupcakes into your fridge for about 15-20 minutes to allow the blue/white icing to so it will hold the ears in place.

Step 16

Finish frosting each cupcake with any leftover white icing and enjoy!

Other Great Cupcake Recipes

If you love this easy cupcake decorating idea, but you’re not quite ready to bust out your fondant just yet, just pin this to your favorite cupcake decorating ideas board on Pinterest so you can find it quick later!

Butter Pecan Sundae Cupcake

Corinne Schmitt — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:48:01 +0000

Butter Pecan Cupcakes are fairly easy to whip up if you’ve got a bit of time. While you are making them, just imagine the mouth watering goodness of the caramel buttercream frosting! Oh my!

I love butter pecan ice cream. I think I get it from my mom. So when I found a recipe for a butter pecan cake, I knew I had to turn it into cupcakes. These were such a hit that my whole family loved them!

I work in a office with lot’s of mazing lady’s and we have snack day often and I normally always take a unique cupcake and they have never loved anything better!

#CUPCAKES

Have you had a unique cupcake lately? If so let me know what kind below I would love the ideas to recreate!

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Enjoy have fun with it!

Strawberry Margarita Cupcakes W/ Tequila

Corinne Schmitt — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:48:39 +0000

For the past few days as I browsed the Internet hoping to find the inspiration for my new culinary adventures, I came across many recipes. I decided to make a summer day treat. It’s time to satisfy my own cravings! And this is the type of creation I love!!

~The Process~

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I always find it very helpful to use paper cupcake liners. It makes for easy clean up, simple removal of the cupcakes from the pan

Sweet, salty, tart and yummy, all together. Sounds great to me! I poked holes to add the tequila made it super easy… you could omit if you like (or make with something other than tequila).

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Thanks so much for coming by means so much!

Easy Step By Step Dory Cupcakes

Corinne Schmitt — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:09:06 +0000

Nemo is the cutest and most popular fishy around. There are so many fun “under the sea” ideas this is one people will remember and love!

Kids and adults will have fun with these! I used a Vanilla cupcake with Vanilla icing, but you can use any combo you like the best. This type of cupcake is what I consider special touches and I enjoy doing it!

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Enjoy & have fun!!! Thanks so much for coming by.

Mint Julep Cupcakes With Jim Bean Frosting

Corinne Schmitt — Fri, 27 May 2016 17:59:49 +0000

Mint Julep Cupcakes : If downing a cupcake sounds like a lot more fun than knocking back a drink, we hear you. With a Jim Bean Bourbon frosting, these amazing cupcakes are so fun and full in flavor.

Have fun with this cocktail cupcake people will be talking about even after they are all gone.

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Bourbon and Mint Frosting Ingredients/Directions:

1 Cup Butter
1/3 Jim Bean
¼ cup Green Crème de Menthe
Dash of Salt
4 cups Powdered Sugar

With paddle attachment, cream butter until smooth. Add salt and 2 cups powdered sugar. Slowly beat in until smooth, add Bourbon and Crème de Menthe and mix on low speed. Add remaining sugar until smooth. Adjust sugar for consistency variances depending on desired outcome of frosting. Frost. Garnish with fresh mint leaf.

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Happy Baking and please let me know if you have any questions or even share some of your experience with the recipe and pictures!!

Paint Party Sneek Peek !

Corinne Schmitt — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 01:42:18 +0000

Hey y’all !! By now you know I’m a party planning wild woman. 2 a year @ the very least.

This year on October 25th my daughters party will be a Creative Canvas type party. You will see the whole master peice a few days after.

But I wanted to show you a sneek peek of the prep work I’ve been doing cause its really cool and so easy !! I was excited !!

I actually didn’t find this idea on Pinterest like i normally do for my inspiration. I went to a local store kinda like TjMaxx called Beals looking for a calendar and happen to see… Plain white scalloped edged cup cake holders ! Ekkkk score !!!!

And I thought hey I can do something for the party with these. And I did !! And feel in love.

Before

This is all I used y’all !! 5 regular paint colors and 3 plastic straws dipped the straw in paint and blew kinda hard into the cupcake holder. I was shocked how easy and cute they turned out. I did let them dry very good though on the towel for about 2 days.

I got the whole set done yay !!!! I’m to excited I know but it was literally $3 to do these !

Don’t forget to come back and see the whole amazing party put together !!

Thanks y’all let me know what you think…