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Home » Cupcakes » Chocolate PB&J Cupcakes

Chocolate PB&J Cupcakes

July 13, 2012 by Jenny 10 Comments

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I recently shared this recipe over at Our Reflection.  Let me just say that we are huge peanut butter and jelly fans out our house.  After our recent strawberry picking I made strawberry jam without pectin, which made these cupcakes A-mazing!

Before you start anything you need to pop 24 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups into the freezer.  I used Duncan Hines Devil Food Cake Mix so they are semi-homemade.  Once the cake mix is placed into the baking cups, place the frozen Peanut Butter Cups into the center of the cake mix.  My assistant did this for me and it was great because we worked on her directional vocabulary as she placed it into the mix.

As you can see we were pretty close to center.
Next take a teaspoon of strawberry jam and spoon it on top of the cupcake.  You'll want to fold it into the cake batter.

I know you've got to be thinking that these sound fabulous, but now we're only going to make it better because you'll need to frost on the Strawberry Jelly Frosting.  I used the 1M tip to get the rose look to the frosting.

 

I give you chocolate peanut butter and jelly cupcakes with strawberry jelly frosting!  I wish I had gotten a picture of Riley eating it.  It was as if each bite was a bite from heaven.  "It tastes like candy, mama," was her comment that made me smile from ear to ear.
Ingredients for Cupcake:
Devil Food Cake Mix
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup for each cupcake
1 teaspoon of strawberry jelly for each cupcake
Recipe for Strawberry Jelly Frosting, which I found at Best Friends for Frosting:
1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
⅓ cup strawberry jam
2 cups of confectioner's sugar
Directions for Frosting:
Beat the butter at room temperature.  Then add in vanilla extract and mix this together.  Add in strawberry jelly and beat together.  Finally add the sugar one cup at a time until you end up with peaks in the frosting.
Lip smacking yummy is all I can say!

Linking to:
Tatertots and Jello, Positively Splendid Bacon Time with the Hungry Hypo, Six Sisters Stuff, I Heart Nap Time, DIY Showoff, Under the Table & Dreaming, Skip to My Lou, Craftomaniac,
Keeping It Simple, Serendipity and Spice, Alderberry Hill, Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog, Creatively Living , A Bowl Full of Lemons, Primp, Someday Crafts, Oopsey Daisy, Uncommon Designs Online, Somewhat Simple, Crafty Scrappy Happy, Mom on Timeout Delightful Order, My Romantic Home, Nap Time Crafters, Stuff and Nonsense, One Artsy Mama, Tidy Mom, It's Overflowing

and these great parties!
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  1. Christina at I Gotta Create!

    July 20, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Oh MY!! That's definitely a winning combo. Yum!
    Thanks so much for linking up at I Gotta Create! <3 Christina

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  2. Carrie

    July 19, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Those also sound delicious!! Thanks for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

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  3. Claudia at Lashes and Beard

    July 18, 2012 at 7:17 am

    Looks delicious! Hope to try it out in my own kitchen soon. Following back from the GFC blog hop. 🙂

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  4. Hubba

    July 17, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    These look so yummy!
    http://www.iheartpears.blogspot.com

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  5. Baked In The South

    July 17, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    Delish! Thanks for sharing! We would love to have you link up with our party!

    http://baked-inthesouth.blogspot.com/2012/07/made-it-by-monday-link-party.html

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  6. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    July 13, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Wow! What a great cupcake. My little helper would love to help me with that job...and eat just as many as she put in the cupcakes, lol.

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  7. The Wanna-be Southern Belle

    July 13, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    what a good little helper you have. i can picture her enjoying her cupcake soo cute! xo

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  8. -Emily-

    July 13, 2012 at 5:09 am

    Visiting you from Complete Waste of Makeup...those look AMAZING and fun too :)!!

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  9. Amy - while wearing heels

    July 13, 2012 at 3:40 am

    Yum. I also love that the teacher in you came out and you were able to use 'directional vocabulary'...you crack me up :). Your little helper did a great job!

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  10. Back for Seconds

    July 13, 2012 at 12:44 am

    Jenny, these look soooo good! And the frosting looks so pretty! WHat a great treat 🙂

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