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Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes

April 25, 2020

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes are for peanut butter lovers!

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes

This sweet treat is the best of both worlds. It’s a peanut butter cookie baked in a cupcake pan, and it’s topped with frosting- just like a cupcake. They’re cupcake-sized cookies with frosting on top!

Yep, it’s cookie dough tucked into a cupcake wrapper, but frosted like a cupcake.  Why not? This means, of course, that you get much more bang for your buck… a bunch more cookie all stuffed into a cupcake tin.  This is good stuff!

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes ready for oven

How to make Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes:

The peanut butter cookie dough is spooned into cupcake pans. you can use cupcake wrappers or no wrappers. They are baked like cookies.

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes in baking pan

And this is what they look like coming out of the oven. They bake up just like peanut butter cookies. The cracks on the top… those are fine because you’re going to top them with peanut butter FROSTING!

Peanut Butter Frosting

A delicious peanut butter frosting is whipped up.

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes

And you’ll frost the “cupcakes” with the peanut butter frosting.

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes

The peanut buttery frosting is smoothed on top of each “cupcake.”  Then you use a powdered sugared fork to criss-cross the top (gotta give it that peanut-butter-cookie look), just like you would do if you were making traditional peanut butter cookies. 

Add in ideas:

  • Top them with chocolate frosting instead if you wish to create a fabulous combination!
  • Mix in miniature chocolate chips!

eating peanut butter cookie cupcakes

And then they’re ready for eating! It’s important to note that they are DENSE. They are not fluffy like a cupcake because they are more like cookies than cupcakes. These are delicious, but you pretty much have to be a peanut butter lover to love these. 

Here are a few more peanut butter cookie recipes you might like to try:

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Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes

A cookie and a cupcake, all in one!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cookie cupcakes, cookies, cupcakes, peanut butter
Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Servings 30 cookie cupcakes
Calories 300kcal

Ingredients

COOKIE CUPCAKES:

  • 1¾ cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 1/3 cups granulated white sugar
  • 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup sour cream

FROSTING:

  • 12 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1½ cups powdered sugar, plus more for decorating
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1½ cups creamy peanut butter

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 or 3 standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.

PREPARE COOKIE CUPCAKES:

  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. In a separate bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the butter and sugar. Mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Reduce the speed to low. Mix in the peanut butter. Then mix in the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla. Add the flour mixture; mix until combined. And then mix in the sour cream.
  • Spoon scant 3 tablespoons of batter into each muffin cup. Bake until pale golden and a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, about 13 minutes. Transfer to wire racks; let cool completely.

PREPARE THE FROSTING:

  • In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and butter; mix on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Stir in the peanut butter with a rubber spatula.
  • Spread 1½ tablespoons of frosting onto each cupcake. Refrigerate until the frosting is firm, about 10 minutes. Using the tines of a fork dipped in powdered sugar, score each cupcake top in a crosshatch pattern.
  • Cupcakes can be refrigerated in single layers in airtight containers for up to 2 days.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie cupcake | Calories: 300kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 181mg | Potassium: 168mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 386IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 1mg

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