peanut butter & jelly cupcakes with cream-cheese frosting!

RECIPE (+2 photos)

Serves: 20 cupcakes
Time: 30min prep (incl frosting), 20min bake

Ingredients
Butter, 60g
Flour, 1 cup
Vanilla extract, 1tsp
Brown sugar, 1 cup
Peanut butter, 150g
Buttermilk*, 0.4 cup
Baking powder, 1.5tsp
Eggs, 2
Strawberry jam
Frosting
Cream cheese, 200g room temp
Sugar, 1cup
Milk, 2tbsp
Butter, 100g

*substituted with milk + a dash of lemon juice

1. Mix butter, brown sugar and peanut butter till creamy
2. Add eggs, then vanilla extract
3. Add the flour, then buttermilk
4. Spoon into cupcake moulds with the strawberry jam as filling
5. Bake at 180C for about 17-20min
6. Mix together the filling and frost cooled cupcakes

(modified from original recipe here)


before frosting


sideways angle

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The original recipe was followed veeeery lazily because Andrew and I were lazy / lacking in amount of ingredients lol. Also, we accidentally added almond extra first instead of vanilla extract. It didn't destroy the taste but I would definitely make it next time without the almon extract, lol. Other than that, it was a much simpler recipe than I thought looking at how complex the original recipe page looked.

It was pretty yummy, even though I felt that the flavours (peanut butter, strawberry, cream-cheese) kinda clash. Too many different flavours. I think if I used frosting in the future I would use peanut butter maybe? Or skip the strawberry jam...but anyway I was reminded of how much I love cream cheese frosting. I just want to make more cream cheese frosting vanilla cupcakes.

VERDICT: 7.5/10

Labels: BAKING

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