Delightful sweet and cheerfully creepy, Spooky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes are a scream to make and the most un-dead fun to eat!
Spooky Peanut Butter-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes are deliciously festive and chocolaty, and they make everyone jump out of their graves for a bite! Pick up your favorite chocolate cupcakes and whip up an easy filling with peanut butter, powdered sugar, and butter. Then, create fun decorations using fun Halloween candy for a tasty treat!
Graveyard Smash
What’s the best way to treat all the special ghouls and boos in you’re life? With Spooky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes, of course! These cute little graveyard bites are a blast and easy to make, starting with your favorite brand of chocolate cupcakes and a simple peanut butter filling. With all the flavors of a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup plus sweet, eerie Oreo graveyard dirt, candy bones, and cookie headstones, this cemetery confection is a smash for everyone!
Create a truly spooky treat table with colorful Easy Monster Fudge and creepy Eyeball Oreo Bites– it’ll be a delightful scream!
Other Recipes to Serve with Spooky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
- A Monster Mash Green Smoothie is the perfect way to fill little witches and vampires with healthy goodies before filling them with sweets!
- When the goblins are out on the town gathering candy, stay in and celebrate with festive Candy Corn Jello Shots!
Ingredients
Cupcakes: Pick up a box of your favorite chocolate cake mix and follow the instructions on the back for needed ingredients and cupcakes. Most mixes require additional ingredients like water, oil, or eggs, so make sure you have what you need.
Peanut Butter Frosting: To make the filling, you will need creamy peanut butter, powdered sugar, milk, and softened butter.
Decorations: For the decorations, you will need Nutter Butter cookies, Oreo cookies, candy in the shape of bones and skulls, black icing, and white chocolate or white candy melts. You must pulse the Oreo cookies in a food processor until they become a fine crumb to use as graveyard dirt.
How to Make Spooky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
STEP ONE: Prepare the chocolate cupcakes according to the package instructions. While the cupcakes are cooling, use a stand mixer, bowl, and beaters to whip the peanut butter and butter together until smooth. Add the powdered sugar and milk a little at a time until everything is well-mixed and fluffy. Spoon the peanut butter frosting into a piping bag fitted with a tip.
STEP TWO: Carefully insert the piping bag tip into the top of the cooled cupcakes, filling each with frosting. Frost the tops of the cupcakes as well.
STEP THREE: Pour the Oreo crumbs into a shallow bowl. Lightly dip the tops of each cupcake into the crumbs to evenly coat the tops.
STEP FOUR: Melt the white chocolate/white candy melts according to the instructions on the package. Dip half of each Nutter Butter into the white chocolate and then set them on a parchment-lined baking sheet to set. Once dry, use the black icing to decorate the “headstones.”
STEP FIVE: Stick the uncoated side of the headstone Nutter Butter’s into the cupcakes and finish decorating with the candy bones and skulls.
Tips for Success
- Different kinds of chocolate cake mix exist, including Devil’s Food and classic chocolate cake mix. All choices taste delicious, so go with your favorite! You can also use unfrosted pre-made cupcakes from your favorite bakery!
- When making the peanut butter frosting, feel free to taste it as you go to ensure it reaches your preferred level of sweetness. You don’t have to add all the powdered sugar if you prefer your frosting to be a little less sweet.
- Store leftover cupcakes covered or in a sealed container for up to five days.
What kind of cake is Devil’s Food Cake?
Of all the different kinds of chocolate cake worldwide, Devil’s food cake has the most rich chocolate flavor and is fluffy. Devil’s food cake has the most “chocolaty” flavor. In contrast, chocolate cake lands in the middle of the chocolate scale, and German chocolate would be considered to have the lightest chocolate flavor. Most Devil’s Food cake is made with rich, quality cocoa powder for that deep chocolate flavor and a little baking powder to give it its signature fluffiness. For these spooky cupcakes, any kind of chocolate cake mix can be used, but why not go for sinfully delicious Devil’s Food cake?
What cake is eaten at Halloween?
Barmbrack was once an Irish Halloween tradition that is now made yearly. This fruit cake, made with dried fruit and spices, was also baked with small trinkets, like rings, thimbles, and coins, to foretell the future of whoever received that slice of cake. Like a shortbread biscuit, soul cakes were a popular tradition in England and Spain. Priests blessed these Soul cakes and then eaten or distributed throughout the town for people to enjoy with singing and games.
More Spook-tacular Treats!
- Spider Web Brownie Pizza
- Frankenstein Marshmallow Pops
- Caramel Apple Pumpkins
- Boo Bark
- Candy Corn Bark
*This post originally posted on 10/26/2013
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 15.25 ounces chocolate cake mix plus ingredients to prepare (1 box)
Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1 ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 ½ tablespoons 2% milk (or whole)
Decorations
- 24 Nutter Butter cookies
- White candy melts or white chocolate
- 15 Oreo cookies
- Bones and skulls hard candies
- Black decorating gel or icing
Instructions
Chocolate Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line two muffin tins with cupcake liners. (I recommend black liners or other Halloween themed liners.)
- Prepare the cake batter according to the package using the amount of egg, vegetable oil, and water listed. Spoon the cake batter into the lined muffin tin cups until they're about 3/4 full.
- Bake according to the package directions for cupcakes. Once cooked, remove from the oven and let the cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack.
Peanut Butter Frosting
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together the peanut butter and butter until smooth and light in color. Add the powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time, mixing in between additions. Then beat in the milk until the frosting is light and fluffy.
- Transfer the peanut butter frosting to a piping bag with a tip fitted on the end. (You may need to divide the frosting into two bags or use the first bag and then refill with the remaining frosting.)
- Insert the tip of the piping bag into the top of a cupcake and squeeze the bag to fill the cupcake with frosting. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes. Then frost the top of each cupcake with frosting as well, just enough to have a good layer for the cookies to stick onto – it doesn't have to be perfect because you're going to cover the top.
Decorations
- Add the Oreo cookies to a food processor bowl. Cover and pules until crumbs form. (You can also use a rolling pin to smash the cookies in a large ziptop food storage bag.) Pour the cookie crumbs into a bowl.
- Carefully dip the frosted cupcakes into the Oreo crumbs and press down gently to help the cookie crumbs stick. Set the cupcakes aside.
- Place the white candy melts in a bowl and melt according to the package directions. Dip half of each Nutter Butter into the melted candy and then lay them on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Allow to rest until the chocolate sets up (you can pop them into the freezer to speed things up).
- Using black decorating gel (or icing) write RIP on the coated half of the Nutter Butter or decorate to look like ghosts.
- Stick the uncoated side of Nutter Butter into the cupcake carefully, leaving the coated half sticking out. Sprinkle bone and skull candies on top and enjoy!
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