Chocolate and peanut butter lovers will love these rich decadent Hidden Reese’s Egg Cupcakes! It is an easy recipe to make and it offers the yumminess of a chocolate cupcake, the smooth deliciousness of Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups!
Who doesn’t love the flavors of chocolate and peanut butter together? Or, should I say Reese’s Peanut Butter cups?! These delicious cupcakes offer the yumminess of a chocolate cupcake, the smooth deliciousness of Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups! All combined together it is a chocolate and peanut butter lover’s dream!
This is an easy recipe to make, using only a few ingredients. When finished, whoever gets the privilege of eating one will close their eyes and say YUUUUM!
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Hidden Reese’s Egg Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients:
1 box Devil’s Food cake mix with ingredients for making the cake (or your favorite chocolate cake recipe)
About 4 cups chocolate frosting
10 Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs, frozen
1 cup miniature Reese’s peanut butter cups, coarsely chopped
How to make these delicious AND yummy Hidden Reese’s Egg Cupcakes
Makes 10 hidden egg cupcakes with batter leftover for additional cupcakes (You could make 15 to 20 hidden egg cupcakes total with one cake mix.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a cupcake pan with liners. Spritz with nonstick cooking spray.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the cake mix and ingredients for making cake.
Using a large scoop, divide the batter between the cupcake liners.
Place one, unwrapped, frozen Reeses Egg in the middle of each cupcake liner.
Bake cupcakes for 15 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted to the sides of the egg comes out clean. (Do not pierce through the center where the egg is.)
Allow cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes in the pan before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Place the frosting in a piping bag fitted with an open star piping tip.
Pipe frosting from the middle of each cupcake to the outer edge and back to the middle to create a peak.
Press chopped Reese’s cups into the frosting.
Enjoy!
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Hidden Reese's Egg Cupcakes Recipe
Chocolate and peanut butter lovers will love these rich decadent Hidden Reese's Egg Cupcakes! It is an easy recipe to make and it offers the yumminess of a chocolate cupcake, the smooth deliciousness of Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs, and Reese's Peanut Butter cups!
Ingredients
- 1 box Devil’s Food cake mix with ingredients for making the cake (or your favorite chocolate cake recipe)
- About 4 cups chocolate frosting
- 10 Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs, frozen
- 1 cup miniature Reese's peanut butter cups, coarsely chopped
Instructions
Makes 10 hidden egg cupcakes with batter leftover for additional cupcakes (You could make 15 to 20 hidden egg cupcakes total with one cake mix.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a cupcake pan with liners. Spritz with nonstick cooking spray.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the cake mix and ingredients for making cake.
Using a large scoop, divide the batter between the cupcake liners.
Place one, unwrapped, frozen Reese's Egg in the middle of each cupcake liner.
Bake cupcakes for 15 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted to the sides of the egg comes out clean. (Do not pierce through the center where the egg is.)
Allow cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes in the pan before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Place the frosting in a piping bag fitted with an open star piping tip.
Pipe frosting from the middle of each cupcake to the outer edge and back to the middle to create a peak.
Press chopped Reese's cups into the frosting.
Enjoy!
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