Easter's Best Cupcake

Spring has finally Sprung!

You know how I know this?
If you're here for Sweet & Simple Sunday,
here's the link,
but believe me, you're gonna wanna read this post!

The birds are singing. The bees are buzzing. The sun is shining.

The weeds are growing.

And last but not least, these have infiltrated every single store I enter!

I love these. These are the death of me. I have a confession. I could consume an entire bag of these myself. And YES, I have tried. I'm not proud of that, but the first step is admitting you have a problem right? I try to trick myself by buying the individually wrapped ones so that my brain thinks that it's less calories. Yeah, right? Again, not when you consume the entire bag.

I have been known to take care of Wal-Mart's overstock of

Peanut Butter Eggs.

 I'm convinced it's a conspiracy. They know that I can't resist

Peanut Butter Eggs at 80% off.

At one point I was in fact a member of the

Peanut Butter Eggs Anonymous support group. 

(Hi, I'm Kim and I'm addicted to Peanut Butter Eggs. Hi Kim.)

So what could be any better than these wonderful creations?  Um I know! Put them in a Cupcake!!

OH YEAH!! Why hadn't I thought of this before now!!

Let me back up a bit before I treat your eyes to the beautful creation that is,

The Peanut Butter Egg Cupcake!

I came across earlier this week two things. The first was this link party

 I knew I had to get involved. So the next question was, what was I going to make?Then I came across these at Cupcake Project  Now, I have to reiturate just how much I enjoy Stephanie's posts. She has taught me alot about cupcakes, but I think I missed something on this project, these are how my eggs turned out 

Yeah, aren't they beautiful.

So now what to do for the link party. I can't possibly post these!

 Then it hit me, as I was standing there eating, well, you know, Peanut Butter Eggs.

(Yes, I said EggS! Don't tell me you've never been there!)

Behold, the Reese's Peanut Butter Egg Cupcake!!

Oh, and there's one inside too!

So what do you think?

I think, HEAVEN! I think, I'm in LOVE!

I think, this cupcake has totally blown my healthy eating plan!

A Chocolate Cupcake, with a Peanut Butter Egg baked in,

topped with Peanut Butter Buttercream and a

Reese's Peanut Butter Egg

What could be better than that?

Chocolate Cupcakes

4 large eggs, room temperature

1 cup sour cream, room temperature

1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted

1 box chocolate pudding mix

1 Devil's Food Cake Mix

3/4 cup Guinness Beer, room temperature

24 mini Reese's PB Eggs-FROZEN

In a mixing bowl combine eggs and sour cream until well combined. Add in pudding mix and melted butter. Alternatly add cake mix and beer until well combined. Do not overmix, and make sure everything is at room temperature so the butter doesn't sieze up.

Line cupcake tins with 24 liners. Place about 1 Tablespoon of batter in each cup. Place a PB Egg in each cup and then top with enough batter to fill cups about 2/3 full.

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or until cups bounce back when tapped. Remove to cooling rack, let cool completely.

Peanut Butter Buttercream

1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup shortening

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 cups powdered sugar

2 Tablespoons milk

1/4 cup creamy peanut butter

In a mixing bowl combine butter and shortening. Add in vanilla. Being mixing in powdered sugar slowly. Add in milk as needed. Mix in peanut butter. Again, add in a bit more milk if necessary to make to piping consitancy. Frost cupcakes.

So now that you are craving not only chocolate cupcakes, but Peanut Butter Eggs, go get some! And bake up some of these lovlies!!

Peace. Love. Cupcakes.

Kim

Check out where I'm partying this week!
http://iamaddictedtorecipes.blogspot.com/p/link-party.html