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Muddy Buddies Cupcakes

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Muddy buddy cupcakes complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish. The best chocolate peanut butter cupcakes! via chelseasmessyapron.com

A muddy buddies cupcake version complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish.

Muddy buddy cupcakes complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish. The best chocolate peanut butter cupcakes! via chelseasmessyapron.com

Peanut butter and chocolate together is my absolute favorite combination. So naturally, I’m obsessed with muddy buddies and quite certain I could finish an entire batch in one sitting.

In fact, I may or may not have done just that every single time I had finals back in my college days. And fine, every time I had mid-terms too.

Muddy buddy cupcakes complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish. The best chocolate peanut butter cupcakes! via chelseasmessyapron.com These cupcakes aren’t made with muddy buddies, but they more represent the flavors of muddy buddies along with a muddy buddy garnish.

Chocolate + Peanut Butter + Powdered Sugar = Muddy Buddy-flavored Cupcakes that are crazy delicious and sure to be a hit!

Muddy buddy cupcakes complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish. The best chocolate peanut butter cupcakes! via chelseasmessyapron.com

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Muddy Buddies Cupcakes
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

A muddy buddies cupcake version complete with a rich chocolate cupcake, peanut butter frosting, and muddy buddy garnish.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24 cupcakes
Calories: 250 kcal
Author: Chelsea Lords
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
  • 1 package (15.25 ounces) Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
  • 1 package (3.9 ounces) chocolate fudge pudding mix, dry, do not prepare
  • 3 large eggs, at room temperature
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup full fat sour cream
  • 2 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk, or sub scant 1/2 cup milk + 1/2 tbsp vinegar- mixed together and let sit for 5 minutes
*Frosting:
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, not a natural or no-stir version
  • 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature (do not sub margarine; do not melt)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2-4 tablespoons milk
Muddy Buddies: Buy a bag of pre-made muddy buddies or make the recipe below:
  • 2 cups Rice Chex cereal
  • 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 and 1/2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
  • 3-4 tsp butter
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
Cupcakes:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin tin with liners and set aside.

  2. In a large bowl, sift together the cake mix and pudding package.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, vegetable oil, sour cream, vanilla, and buttermilk.

  4. If you don't have buttermilk, combine 1/2 cup of milk with 1/2 tbsp. white vinegar in a separate cup and let sit for 5 minutes and then add to mixture.

  5. Mix wet and dry until combined (do not over-stir or beat in too much air)
  6. Fill up the liners 3/4ths the way full and bake for 17-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  7. Remove and let cool.
Frosting:

  1. In a separate bowl, combine the peanut butter with room temperature butter and beat together in a stand mixer or with hand beaters until smooth and creamy. Add in the vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat together and slowly add in the milk until the frosting consistency is reached.

Muddy Buddies:
  1. In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the chocolate chips, peanut butter, butter and vanilla. Microwave for 30 seconds and stir until melted. Return to microwave for 15 seconds if needed. The mixture will be thick. Coat the chex cereal in the chocolate mixture until covered. (I used my hands to get the cereal covered in the chocolate)
  2. Pour the coated cereal into a large resealable plastic bag.
  3. Add powdered sugar. Seal bag and shake until well coated.
Putting it together
  1. Once the cupcakes have completely cooled, pipe (or spread) the frosting onto the cupcakes.
  2. Sprinkle on powdered sugar and garnish with several muddy buddies.
  3. Store in an airtight container.
Recipe Notes

*The frosting recipe will cover 24 cupcakes, but if you want a lot of frosting on each cupcake (like seen in the pictures), you will need to double the frosting recipe.

More Desserts:

Toffee Pecan Chocolate Cookies

Cookie Dough Oreos

Sugar Cookie Bites

For other Muddy Buddy Desserts, check out these: Brownie Batter Muddy Buddies,  Cake Batter Muddy Buddies, or Gluten Free Churro Puppy Chow.

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  1. I haven’t done the doctored up cake mix thing in ages, but your pudding on pudding fudginess sounds seriously enticing. As does the PB/chocolate combo. I mean…what could be better?! i think your sister would be proud!

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  5. Oh yeah, I would love one of these cupcakes right now. 🙂 Muddy buddies are the bomb and they look so cute on top of these cupcakes! As much as I love making cakes from scratch, cake mixes are so good sometimes. Plus, chocolate and peanut butter are always a good combo!

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    • Thank you Rachel! P.S. I am SO jealous of all your fun traveling and Spain adventure!! Barcelona is definitely a place I want to go someday!
      !

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  11. These cupcakes look incredible Chelsea! Peanut butter frosting is my weakness and adding the crunchy homemade muddy buddies sounds out of this world! Great action shot while sprinkling the powdered sugar over the cupcakes – looks like it’s raining sugar – awesome photo!!:)

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  12. Chelsea, your sis would be so proud! I’m the sister that always makes the cakes, etc. Loving this whole creation with the pudding action. When I use cake mixes, Betty Crocker is the brand I go for, too.
    PS…. Love the raining of powdered sugar!

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    • Thank you so much Gloria! Betty Crocker is just the way to go 🙂 I hope you have a great Vday tomorrow and your boys spoil you!

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  17. combining two of my favorite treats! that is my favorite cake mix also! I like the triple chocolate fudge also! looks like a great cupcake!

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    • Thank you Jocelyn! And definitely recommend eating the frosting by the spoonful, haha I totally did that 🙂

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  20. Save yourself the extra step. Go to the grocery store and buy a bag of actual Muddy Buddies. Saves time and money!

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  21. I’m going to try to make these for my stepsons 16th birthday…he LOVES Muddy Buddies 🙂

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