For a luxurious dessert, top these wonderful peanut butter cupcakes from Lisa Altmiller’s grandmother, Lottie, with banana butter frosting. Garnish with banana chips after frosting with Lisa’s Banana Butter Frosting.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons applesauce
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line twenty four 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with paper liners.
- Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a small bowl.
- Beat brown sugar, peanut butter, applesauce, oil, and vanilla extract together in a large bowl. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition until combined. Beat in flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, on low speed until just combined. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 14 to 16 minutes. Cool in the tins for 5 minutes. Loosen edges using a knife; carefully remove cupcakes and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 125 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 18 g |
| Cholesterol | 14 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 134 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These were a huge hit for our new neighbors. I made the peanut butter cupcake recipe as listed. Although I did use vanilla bean paste in place of vanilla extract. I did need to add a little milk to the banana butter frosting as it was very thick.
The frosting was great. Cupcakes had a nice texture but weren’t sweet at all.They didn’t have a lot of peanut butter flavor either. I wouldn’t make these again.