Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting

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Total Time:
1 hr 5 min
Prep
30 min
Inactive
15 min
Cook
20 min
Yield:
12 cupcakes
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • Baking spray with flour
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 cup grape jelly
  • Peanut Butter Frosting, recipe follows
  • Candy bars, crushed with a rolling pin, such as Reese's Pieces, Butterfinger, Nutter Butter, Heath Bar, or small sandwich cookies, for decorating

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line one 12-cup standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. Gently spray the liners with baking spray and set aside.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt over a large piece of paper. In a large bowl, cream the butter and granulated sugar with a hand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, egg yolk and vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Pour in the milk and continue to mix until smooth (the batter may look curdled at first but will smooth out). Pick up the paper with the dry ingredients and gradually pour into the wet ingredients. Continue to mix just until blended.

Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared tin, filling the cups about three-quarters full. Bake until the tops of the cupcakes spring back to the touch and are not too golden, about 20 minutes. Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, and then allow to cool completely on a wire rack before filling, frosting or decorating.

Fill a squeeze bottle with the grape jelly and screw on the cap. Carefully insert the tip of

the squeeze bottle as far as it will go into the tops of the cupcakes. Gently squeeze about 1 tablespoon jelly inside of each cupcake. Ice the tops of the cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting to cover. Decorate with your favorite candy.

Peanut Butter Frosting:

  • 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons milk

Beat the peanut butter, butter and cream cheese with a hand or stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar and continue to mix until the frosting is smooth. Mix in the milk and continue to mix until it reaches a good spreading consisting. Makes 1 1/2 cups.

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  • on March 01, 2013

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    this was OK. the frosting was the best part but the actual cake was pretty gross. I like the idea but i'd rather use a different cupcake recipe- maybe chocolate.

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  • on April 30, 2012

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    This rating is only for the AMAZING peanut butter frosting! I never made the cupcakes, so I can't comment on them, but I have made the frosting for other recipes. It tastes like Reese's peanut butter cups! People rave about the frosting whenever I make it. Eat-it-on-cardboard good!

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  • on March 08, 2012

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    I just made these. The concept deserves 3 stars, but the sad thing about this cupcake is the actual cake. I make cupcakes all the time and pride myself on fluffy moist cupcakes.

    The frosting is terrific (though the frosting recipe makes enough frosting for twice the cupcakes the recipe produces. The sprinkles idea works great.

    The CAKE. Oh god. Where to begin? It's SO dense. Tastes like some yellow cake cornbread hybrid. This a mediocre cupcake and it's all the cake portion's fault.

    THE SOLUTION.

    This cupcake could be 5x better with an out-of-the-box white cake, just fill them with jelly and top with the frosting/sprinkles.

    This is coming from a girl who NEVER bakes out of the box. Always go from scratch, but this cake recipe is so very sad.

    C'mon Food Network. You can do better than this. (Also, the twice as much frosting than needed thing - Get it together.

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