Chocolate Reese’s Pieces Cupcakes

  Hello everybody!

  This week’s blog post is a baking post! It’s been so long since I made cupcakes, so today I have a deliciously scrumptious recipe for you! If you want to know how to make “Chocolate Reese’s Pieces Cupcakes” keep on reading!

  Makes: 12

  Prep time: 30 minutes

  Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

175g unsalted butter, softened

175g soft light brown sugar

3 large, free range eggs

175g self raising flour

1tsp baking powder

4tbsp cocoa powder

2tbsp whole milk

For the frosting: 

125g unsalted butter, softened

300g icing sugar

100g smooth peanut butter

2tbsp whole milk

50g plain chocolate, melted

1 large box of Reese’s Pieces 113g

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 175℃ fan and line a cupcake tray with 12 liners.

2. In a large bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Set aside.

3. Place the butter and sugar in an electric mixer and mix until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition. Add the flour mixture in one go ensuring all the ingredients are thoroughly combined. Mix the milk through the batter until smooth.

4. Fill the cupcake liners to ⅔ full and bake for 20 - 25 minutes or unti a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.

5. Allow to cool in the pan for five minutes before removing to finish cooling on a rack.

6. While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting.

7. Mix the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until pale and soft. Add the icing sugar and the peanut butter and milk. Turn the mixer on low and gradually increase the speed. Whip for 5 minutes, if the frosting looks too stiff add a splash more milk until you reach a nice piping consistency.

8. Once the cupcakes have cooled fill a piping bag, fitted with an open star nozzle, with the peanut butter frosting and pipe a cute swirl on each cake. Add a few Reese’s Pieces on top of each cupcake and then drizzle each cake with the melted chocolate.

  That’s all for this week’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed! The end product from this bake was amazing and it was super easy to make! If you like Reese’s I would definitely recommend making these! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!