Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes (with optional cream cheese filling)
Chocolate + Peanut Butter is always amazing. Add in a cream cheese filling, and these go over the top! Even if you want to keep the filling out, these are SO delicious!
| Prep Time |
| 15minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 25minutes |
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Ingredients
- 1cup blanched almond flour
- 1cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1tsp baking soda
- 1/2tsp salt
- 1cup unsweetened peanut butter or other nut butter
- 1/2cup coconut oilmelted
- 3 eggs
- 1tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3/4cup pure maple syrup
Optional cream cheese filling
- 1 package cream cheese8 oz
- 1/4cup pure maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tin with muffin liners.
- Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- Beat together the wet ingredients and then stir into dry ingredients.
- Rinse off beaters, then beat together the cream cheese and maple syrup (if desired).
- Spoon a heaping spoonful of batter into one of the muffin liners, spreading out a bit and leaving a bit of a hole in the center.
- Add a spoonful of the cream cheese filling.
- Top with another spoonful of the batter, spreading it out to cover the filling as much as possible.
- Bake in oven for 20-25 minutes, until done.
- Let cool for about 5-10 minutes before eating.