monster cookie dough cupcakes
peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes with peanut butter m&m frosting
baked in March 2015
yield: 12 cupcakes
prep time: 30 minutes
cook time: 20 minutes
difficulty level: easy
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 cups flour
- 1 and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Frosting
- 8 oz. (1 package) cream cheese, softened (don't use reduced fat or fat free!)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1-2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 Tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup oats
- 3/4 bag plain mini m&m's
- 3/4 cup mini or regular milk chocolate chips
Directions
For the cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Use a hand or stand mixer to whisk together all of the cupcake ingredients except for the chocolate chips.
- Then, stir in the chocolate chips with a spoon or spatula.
- Fill each cupcake liner about 2/3 full of batter.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack.
For the frosting:
- Use a stand mixer dough paddle to beat together the cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter until smooth.
- Mix in the brown sugar, flour, vanilla, and oats.
- Mix in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time (1 and 1/2 cups worked out best for me).
- Finally add the m&m's and chocolate chips, mix well.
- Use a large cookie scoop or ice cream scoop to scoop out the cookie dough onto the completely cooled cupcakes.
Nutrition
- Total calories: 8,089
- Calories per cupcake: 674
