Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting

Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence

Show: Food 911Episode: Bake Sale Delights

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (31)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
20 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
12 cupcakes

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 15 min
Cook: 20 min
Total:: 1 hr 5 min

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Ingredients

11/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup milk
1 cup grape jelly (Recommended: Welch's Grape Jelly)
Candy bars (Recommended: Reese's Pieces, Butterfinger, Nutterbutter, Heath Bar, smashed up with a rolling pin, for decorating)
Peanut butter frosting, recipe follows

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Line a cupcake pan with paper liners, gently spray the liners with nonstick 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 sugar with a hand mixer on medium speed, until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, the egg yolk, and the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Pour in the milk and continue to mix until smooth. Pick up the paper with the dry ingredients and gradually pour it into the wet ingredients, continue to mix just until blended.

Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared cupcake tins, about 3/4 full. Bake until the tops of the cupcakes spring back to the touch and are not too golden; about 20 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, and then allow to cool completely on a wire rack before filling, frosting or decorating.

Fill a squirt bottle with the grape jelly and screw on the cap. Carefully insert the tip of the squirt bottle as far as it will go into the top of the cupcakes. Gently squeeze about 1 tablespoon worth of jelly inside of each. Ice the tops of the cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting to cover. Decorate with your favorite candy.

Peanut Butter Frosting:

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 cup smooth peanut butter

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature

4 cups confectioners' sugar

1 tablespoon milk

Beat the butter, peanut butter, and cream cheese with a hand or standing mixer on medium speed, until light and fluffy. Slowly add the confectioner's 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.

Yield: 2 cups

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recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
vincent New York, NY 05-12-2009
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To much glaze
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

they are very very good but there is way to much glaze.... if i were you, i would cut the glaze recipe in half twice. i... only used about 1/8.Read more
recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
Nancy Jacksonville, FL 01-20-2009
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Wow! The best cupcakes I ever ate!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

The batter for the cakes was so smooth and creamy and tasted so vanilla-y and delicious, I didn't wait until the cakes were... totally cooled before I filled one with the jelly and added that schmear of peanut butter frosting - that warm, jelly filled cupcake was so good I literally stuffed my mouth full!!! Then ate another as soon as that one went down! My 79-year-old mother said the cake part was the best she'd ever tasted and she's tasted a lot of cake in her time ... GREAT RECIPE! Easy to make too ...Read more
recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
April Chesterfield, VA 10-31-2008
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Not as good as I'd hoped
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

I was making these to enter a cupcake contest and I'm so glad I tried out the recipe first before entering them. The cake... was WAY too tough and not springy like a cake should be. Maybe I overcooked them, but I usually tend to pull things out of the oven before the said time so as to avoid that. And, I couldn't seem to master filling them with jelly. That was a nightmare. Others are right when they say the icing recipe makes way too much, but I'll use the rest to ice some brownies this weekend. The recipe was a good idea, but they just didn't turn out like I wanted. I ate one and threw the rest in the trash. The recipe went in the trash, too.Read more
recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
Liz Emeryville, CA 07-12-2008
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A recipe everyone loves
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made a big batch for my co-workers (who rang in age from 18-65) and everyone, including the head honcho who "doesn't like... sweets", LOVED them.Read more
recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
CHRIS AVONDALE, LA 05-31-2008
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Addictive !!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These cupcakes were out of this world!! My husband and I loved it! I cheated and used a white cake mix from a box. If you... want something a little different than your usual cupcakes...this is it!Read more
recipe Jelly-Filled Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting
Nicole Saint Paul, MN 04-24-2008
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Yummy
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

The cupcakes were easy to put together. Make sure the butter isn't too warm. I did use more jelly in the center. Big hit... with kids!Read more