Oh My Reese's Cupcakes
By: Homemade & Yummy
Published: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 8:03am

Ingredients




Simple Vanilla Cupcakes
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups granulated sugar
4 egg yolks (room temperature)
2 cups regular white flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 cup greek yogurt
4 egg whites (room temperature)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. salt
Delicate Buttercream Frosting
1 cup butter (room temperature)
5 cups icing sugar (sifted)
Milk or cream for thinning
Salt (to cut the sweetness)
Jar of Reese Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread

Preparation

1 For the Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350ºF and line muffin tins with liners 2 Sift flour with baking powder and salt into a bowl 3 In another bowl cream butter and sugar 4 Beat in egg yolks 5 Add vanilla 6 Add the yogurt (in 2 parts) and flour (in 3 parts) to the butter/sugar mixture making sure you begin and end with flour 7 In another bowl beat the egg whites until stiff 8 Gently fold into batter 9 Fill liners 2/3 full 10 Bake for 20 minutes 11 Cool on rack 12 With cooled cupcakes: Scoop out the middle of the cupcake and keep the piece to reuse 13 Spoon in some of the spread into each of the cupcakes 14 Top the chocolate spread with the piece of cupcake 15 For the Frosting: Cream the butter and icing sugar (adding some salt to cut the sweetness), thinning with milk or cream to reach desired consistency 16 Place a dollop of the Reese spread in the middle (top) of each cupcake 17 Pipe frosting around chocolate 18 ENJOY!!

About

Oh My Reese's Cupcakes..simple vanilla cupcakes with spoonfuls of Reese Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread inside and topped with more chocolate and a delicate buttercream frosting.  Every chocolate peanut butter lover's dream....you will certainly want more than one!!