Reese's Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

My latest food recipe tackled was, Reese's cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. May I just say, they were amazing.  

The things you'll need for the cupcakes,
1.  White or Chocolate cake mix, I used white, the mix usually takes eggs, water, and veggie oil. I used about 1/4 cup less water then recommended. (Walmart 1.25)
2.  Cupcake liners (Walmart 0.50)
3.  Reese's Peanut Butter cups mini, buy them the week after a holiday! Usually the holiday candy goes on sale for up to 50% off, in almost every store. (Walmart 2.00 (bought after Halloween)

For the frosting
4.  1 cup butter, softened (1.25/4 Schnucks)
5.  1 cup creamy peanut butter (2.00 Schnucks)
6.  4 cups powdered sugar (1.50 Schnucks)
7.  5 teaspoons milk (price varies)

After all is added up, the total comes to 8.50. You might also be able to find things for cheaper too! BUT, everything can be used for other things except the cake mix!

So, first you're going to pre-heat the oven.  As the oven is heating up get the cake mix ready! Follow the instructions on the cake box, I used a hand mixer to combine all the ingredients together, place cupcake liners and put a 1/4 cup scoop of the cake mix inside of the liner. Unwrap 12 mini Reese's cups and push 1 into the middle of each separate scoop of batter, don't worry about the dent in the cupcake, when the cupcakes bake the gap will close.  Then, place in oven for recommended time.

While you're waiting for your delicious, tempting cupcakes to come out of the oven, start making the frosting! First combine the softened butter and the creamy peanut butter and milk, I used a hand mixer for this part too, so make sure you wash the blender blades.  Once fluffy, add the powdered sugar.  The mix shouldn't be watery, so if it is, add powdered sugar until it is not watery. I put the frosting in the fridge until it was ready to use on the cupcakes.

Once the cupcakes are out of the oven, put them onto a plate or separate dish and pop them in the freezer for a couple minutes or by an open window so they cool down quick so you can plop some frosting on them and devour one!

When applying the frosting, I put a sandwich bag into a coffee mug and put frosting into the bag. Cut a tiny slit at an angle in one of the corners of the bag and pipe it onto the top of the cupcake from the outside in.   And, BAM! These fantastic little cupcakes are like heaven in your mouth!

Until next time, enjoy :]
-Steph