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Peanut Butter Cup Muffins
Fluffy peanut butter muffins embedded with a gooey dark chocolate peanut butter cup. A peanut butter and chocolate lovers dream.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 10 muffins
Ingredients
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 ½ cups non-dairy milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup cane sugar
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp salt
- 10 mini dark chocolate peanut butter cups
(Optional) Peanut Butter Frosting
- 2 tbsp room temperature vegan butter
- 1 tbsp creamy peanut butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp non-dairy milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with muffin liners.
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In a large mixing bowl, whisk together peanut butter, non-dairy milk, vanilla, and sugars until creamy. Add flour, baking soda and powder, spices, and salt. Use a wooden spoon or spatula to stir batter until combined and no flour is visible. Use a cookie scoop to fill each muffin liner ½ full. Press one peanut butter cup into the center and top with 1 tbsp muffin batter making sure the chocolate is completely covered.
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Bake muffins for 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely before frosting, if desired.