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Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

June 13, 2016

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

Quick question: If you could only eat one food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? 

Without hesitation I can tell you that mine would be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Specifically creamy peanut butter and raspberry jelly on white bread (although I will accept wheat bread) and maybe a few potato chips thrown in there for some crunch. If you haven’t tried potato chips in your pb&j, you should rectify that immediately. It’s amazing. 

As you can see my love of peanut butter and jelly runs deep. So when I was trying to think of something fun (and different) to bake for a work bake sale, I immediately thought of making peanut butter and jelly cupcakes.  


For the cupcakes, I started with a vanilla boxed cake mix and added some peanut butter powder so that the cupcakes had a little bit of a hint of peanut butter. 


Then for the jelly in this peanut butter and jelly, I piped some raspberry jelly into the center of the cupcake. I just used a sharp star pipping tip to punch through the top of the cupcake (but they also make piping tips just for this occasion). I will say, it was a little hard to tell how much jelly was getting piped in, so I watched the level of the jelly in the bag to make sure there was a healthy jelly filling.


The last step, and the literal icing on the cake, is the peanut butter frosting. This stuff is amazing and basically tasted like the center of a peanut butter cup. How could that be bad, especially when it’s combined with a delicious jelly filled cupcake?

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

So when I originally made these cupcake for the bake sale I didn’t actually eat them. I was doing the Whole 30 then so I made my husband taste test everything and make sure they were okay. I took them into work not really knowing if they were any good. The feedback was immediate. Within a  couple hours I had multiple emails requesting the recipe. Clearly they were a hit so I knew I had to make them again once I was off the Whole 30.

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Even though each individual piece of these cupcakes is nothing special (except for that icing – I could eat it slathered on some cardboard), the whole cupcake together literally tastes like childhood. If I close my eyes I can picture 9 year old Lindsey eating a pb&j at the lunch tables at school. 

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/ Filed In: Cakes and Cupcakes, Cakes New, Desserts, Eat
Tagged: cupcake, jelly, peanut butter

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Comments

  1. CakePants says

    June 16, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    These look delightful! I bet the taste of these cupcakes will transport many of us right back to childhood. And I’ve never tried putting potato chips in a PBJ…it sounds intriguing!

    • followtheruels says

      June 16, 2016 at 9:58 pm

      These will definitely take you right back to your childhood. And yes, it may be strange, but I loved putting chips in my pb&j and it is great!

  2. Anita says

    June 22, 2016 at 4:33 am

    This looks so yummy!

    • followtheruels says

      June 22, 2016 at 3:35 pm

      Thanks!

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