Chocolate Peanut Butter Filled Cupcakes

In my cake decorating class we learned how to fill a cupcake. I brought chocolate cupcakes and filled with with peanut butter frosting. SOO TASTY!!!

The process is quite simple. There is a tip to put on a cake decorating bag that is used for filling cupcakes. It's a long, skinny tip and you put whatever it is that you want to fill your cupcakes with inside the bag with this tip on it, stick the tip half way into the cupcake and squeeze until you feel a little "pop" or air bubble. If you don't feel the "pop", just squeeze for about 3-4 seconds. If you put too much filling into your cupcake the cupcake will crack at the top. But that's all there is to it! Your cupcake is filled and now you get to ice it however you want to!

I used a peanut butter frosting filling and then used peanut butter frosting and peanut butter chocolate frosting to ice the cupcakes. The mouthwatering recipes are below!

Frosting & Filling:

Peanut Butter Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 C creamy peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
6 C powdered sugar.
2-4 tsp of milk until desired consistency
Beat cream cheese, peanut butter  and vanilla until light and fluffy.  Gradually add in powdered sugar.  Add milk, 1 tsp at a time until desired consistency. 

I took about 1/2 - 3/4 cup of the peanut butter frosting and used it as a filling for the cupcakes.
Divide the remaining frosting into two portions.  Set aside one for the Chocolate Frosting.

Chocolate Frosting:
1/2 of peanut butter frosting
1/2 C cocoa (or more to desired taste)
Add more milk, 1 tsp at a time until desired consistency.
Beat until well combined.

This recipe will frost and fill about 12 cupcakes- so double the batch if you are making 24 cupcakes!

To frost the cupcakes with both the peanut butter and chocolate frosting: 
Put the peanut butter frosting in one bag and the chocolate frosting in another bag, then put both bags into a larger bag with the icing tip you'd like to use. Then frost the cupcakes. This makes a clean divided line between the two frostings.

Enjoy!