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Friday, 18 October 2013

Chocolate and Peanut Butter with Reece's Cups Cupcakes


I bookmarked these cupcakes a long time ago after Ros from The More Than Occasional Baker brought them to my birthday party - but it took me a long time to get around to making them. You need Reece's Peanut Butter miniature cups, which I've never found in the UK - does anyone know if you can buy them here? I went to America last September and bought a bag, but then ate them all before I got around to making the cakes! Then my boyfriend's mum went to America last month and very kindly brought me back a bag. This time I made sure I baked the cupcakes before I ate all the peanut butter cups!

I recommend you go to Ros's website to get the full recipe for these amazing cupcakes. Hers definitely turned out better than mine as my icing wasn't stiff enough to pipe though. Here's what I did:

Cream the butter, sugar and peanut butter



Add the eggs and vanilla


Spoon into cake cases


Here are my lovely miniature peanut butter cups all the way from America!


Gently push a peanut butter cup down into each cupcake so the top is just showing.


While they are baking, make the buttercream from butter, icing sugar and melted chocolate


The cupcakes are done - the peanut butter cups hold their shape really well!


Pipe the buttercream on top. I don't know why mine was too runny as I followed Ros's recipe exactly and hers look perfect!


Decorate with Dr. Oetker gold pearls.

 
When you cut into a cupcake you can see the Reece's cup - and you can definitely taste them!

I took these cupcakes into work for the Macmillan bake sale. They were very popular, even if the icing wasn't to my usual standard!



I am sending this to the Flavours of the USA blog challenge hosted by Emma at Souperior, as the Reece's peanut butter cups come from America and the flavours of this cupcake are, I think, a fairly American combination.


I am also sharing this with Bookmarked Recipes, hosted by Jacqueline of Tinned Tomatoes.



At the risk of overloading Ros of The More Than Occasional Baker I am sending these to Alphabakes, the blog challenge that we co-host. Our letter this month is C and I'm sure Ros will get a lot of chocolate entries!

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8 comments:

  1. Unknown18 October 2013 at 20:32

    These look so yummy!! You can get Reese minicups in Asda and they also do a white chocolate version! Mmmmm dangerous!

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    1. Caroline Cowe18 October 2013 at 22:22

      I had no idea you could get these in Asda but I've just looked online and you're right! Can't believe I waited months until someone I knew went to America...!

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  2. Kim Carberry18 October 2013 at 20:37

    Oh my! They look absolutely amazing!!
    I'll have to give them a try x

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  3. Baking Addict30 October 2013 at 13:15

    These are one of my faovurite cupcakes, so glad you gave them a go. Not sure what happened with the frosting but it looks good anyway! Maybe a bit more icing sugar to stiffen it ? Thanks for entering AlphaBakes

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  4. Jacqueline Meldrum4 November 2013 at 22:15

    Such a temptation. I could go one right now!

    Thanks for sending them over for Bookmarked Recipes. The roundup is now live.

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  5. Anonymous10 June 2014 at 19:35

    bookmarked!!, I really like your website!

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  6. Chris Half1 July 2014 at 17:01

    I would love that one, too, but yes, where to get the peanut butter miniature cups?!

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  7. Caroline Cowe3 July 2014 at 07:41

    When I made these I don't think you could buy the peanut butter cups anywhere in the UK but now Asda has them, and I think Tesco as well!

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