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Reese’s Pieces Cupcakes

ByLizzy Mae Early

Reese's Pieces Cupcakes

 Fluffy peanut butter frosting topped with chocolate peanut butter ganache and Reese’s Pieces! You can switch the cake out for a chocolate cake mix or use either my Chocolate Cake Mix Substitute or my White Cake Mix Substitute.  These cupcakes and their colors are perfect for Halloween! Alright, I know the spooky holiday is still over a month away but I’m just getting too excited to wait! Costco already has Christmas decorations for sale! I won’t start with the eggnog recipes just yet though 🙂

Reeses Pieces Cupcake

 The Story:

Okay, I’ll admit it.  I don’t like Halloween.

I don’t like scary movies or haunted houses or scrubbing for hours trying to get face paint off my skin or staying up late or eating candy until I feel sick.  I don’t wear a mini skirt and fuzzy ears and call myself a cat and I can’t for the life of me bob for an apple!

But I do love Halloween baking 🙂

Reese’s Pieces Cupcakes

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Ingredients
  

Cake:

  • 1 Box white cake mix
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/3 C. oil or melted butter
  • 1/2 C. milk or buttermilk
  • 3/4 C. sour cream or plain yogurt
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 C. Reese's Pieces

Peanut Butter Frosting:

  • 1/2 C. butter softened
  • 1/2 C. smooth peanut butter
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/4 C. milk more if needed
  • 2-3 C. powdered sugar

Peanut Butter Chocolate Ganache: (optional)

  • 1/4 C. chocolate chips
  • 1/2 C. smooth peanut butter

Extra Reese's Pieces for decoration

Instructions
 

  • 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
  • 2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps and add eggs, oil, milk, sour cream and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
  • 3. Stir in Reese's Pieces and fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
  • 4. Let cool.
  • 5. Peanut Butter Frosting: Beat butter and peanut butter until smooth. Add vanilla extract, milk and 1 cup powdered sugar. Beat again. Slowly add in more powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Add more milk if frosting becomes too thick.
  • 6. Peanut Butter Chocolate Ganache: In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate chips and peanut butter together and stir until smooth.
  • 7. Pipe buttercream onto cooled cupcakes, drizzle over ganache (I made a mini piping bag with a plastic sandwich bag and snipped off the tip) then top with Reese's Pieces.

The greaseproof cupcake liners are from Sweets & Treats

But really, how gorgeous are these?  Cupcakes are all about what you top them off with! Pour on a little melted chocolate and some candy and they’re always a show stopper!

Reeses Pieces Cupcakes

The far away shot… I used my mother’s old baking sheet for my backdrop.  I love the texture of colors it gives to the photo.  And a cute little cake stand from TJ Maxx.  I have to say, I’m the biggest fan of TJ Maxx, I just go in there and roam all the time.

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 Simple and beautiful.  AND delicious 🙂

Reese's Pieces Cupcake

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27 Comments

  2. Hi that recipe sounds really good but ici don’t have a white cake mix how can i make these muffins ? Thanks 🙂

  3. Need to get my hands on some reeses pieces now so I can make these cupcakes… they looks amazingly delicious. Pinned!

  10. Another winner Lizzy! I made these to bring to the dental office I work for, along with a couple other of your recipes. These were everyone’s favorite and I have already received several orders for them! Thanks, once again!

  11. For your peanut butter chocolate ganache, what kind of chocolate chips are you using? Dark, semi-sweet, other?

  13. Lizzy……I made these last week and they were awesome!! Just love the crunch inside the cupcake. You are the “Best”!!!!!

  14. I loved that you posted the “behind the scenes” photo of your set-up. Thanks for sharing.

  16. These cupcakes were amazing! I was pretty confident in the cake portion, but I was a little worried about the frosting…I have multiple frosting horror stories to my name…but this recipe tasted truly bakery fresh and was super simple! Made my BF’s birthday extra special 🙂

  20. I made these for a Halloween party and they were AMAZING!!!! Super moist, and delicious! I ended up with about 21 large cupcakes.

  25. Do you think the candies would stay suspended in the batter if used in a cake pan? Thank you

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