Peanut Butter Brownie Cupcakes

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Duncan Hines has this recipe on their website under a different name - it's been there forever.

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C'mon folks. This was a great RECIPE ? particularly when pressed for time AND you have a 10 year old niece who ALWAYS wants to help when I?m baking. A recipe is defined as "...a set of instructions for making something from various ingredients..." Well so what if some of the ??various ingredients...? are all packed together in a box. It worked so let?s not be so critical. The neighborhood kids loved these and so did my co-workers in the office. We all know (or should know by this time that what happens on TV is not exactly what may appear in the website recipes. That?s why we READ the comments; particularly if we did not SEE the preparation on the TV screen. So let?s get off our culinary high-horses, return to kitchen civility and continue to use this site as a recipe discussion forum.

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How could anyone hose up such a bonehead simple recipe? Something was lost in the translation. She used a standard 12 cup pan, she added the chips and covered them over. You need to use the liners or they will stick--they are brownies after all. And because they are, baking time is critical. You WILL only get 12, not 24. I've been baking too long to be impressed with this.

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For some odd reason, this only made 11 cupcakes (and I did not fill all the way to the top. Used mini-peanut butter cups. Pushed it in till just part of the top was showing, and then smoothed batter over. I did not use cake liners, but instead sprayed the heck out of the muffin cups.

As a result, the PB cup ended up at the very bottom of the muffin cup. So, where the cups had stuck to the muffin tin, I carefully removed them and then put them back into the brownie cupcake (this only happened to a few.

I used Aida's peanut butter ganache recipe (bittersweet chocolate, vanilla, PB, and of course, heavy cream, and dipped the BOTTOM of each brownie cupcake into the ganache, thus sealing the pb cup into the cupcake. And boy, did it taste good. So, the top became the bottom and the bottom became the top, and with the ganache, it turned out pretty darn well.

I usually do not use mixes, but I had had good success with this for a weeknight dinner party where I was tasked with dessert. I would certainly do this again.

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Taking a store bought cake mix and a bag of peanut butter chips does NOT count as a recipe. With all the crap Sandra Lee makes with her Semi Homemade garbage, at least she actually adds something to it besides tearing open a bag and adding water and oil. Please don't call this a recipe. It might taste fine, but I don't come to foodnetwork.com to find something my dog could make.

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OHMIGOD, I can't believe how low we as a society have sunk when we have a website devoted to the production of superior food recommend a recipe like this. Come on people put some effort into your cooking, and as for you Paula Deen if you want to really give this recipe some fruity zip throw in a cup of skittles. MMM...that's some good southern cooking.

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I think anyone could come up with this and to be honest it wasn't that great.

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These are always requested at parties.Very simple to make. I take them a step further by making a peanut butter frosting and piping it on the cupcakes and sprinkling grated chocolate on top.

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I used the betty crocker fudge brownie mix. Maybe there was too much leavening agent in there, b/c my cupcakes sank further and further as they cooled. At any rate, I still don't see what's so special about this that it got so many rave reviews. The best part of this recipe is just how easy it was to make.

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My husband declared these the best brownies ever (don't tell his mom - we are newlyweds, so I'm not sure I've earned it yet!. He requested that I make these again since I first tried them two weeks ago, and has already re-stocked the pantry for a third time!! As a peanut butter lover, I am super excited that he loves them so much :D Both times, I've made them in a 9x9 pan and poured half the batter, then the PB chips, then the second half of the batter. It turns out great and is super-easy!!