It was so good to be back home this weekend after and awesome spring break in Florida. Even though I really enjoyed the sun and being able to ride in the warm weather, I couldn’t wait to get back home and get cooking again. I really missed eating all of my delicious protein treats that I would normally have to munch on.
My sister and brother came home from college Sunday. I went on an 80 mile bike ride in the morning and got home around 12:30. My brother still hadn’t even got out of bed when I got home! My sister and I decided that we would bake something. We usually try to bake something together when she comes home. Of course I was craving chocolate even more than normal after my long ride, so we decided on chocolate peanut butter protein cupcakes.
These are definitely the best cupcakes I have made yet. I undercooked them just slightly and the texture came out just like a brownie. The cupcakes had a really intense chocolate flavor, so if you want to tone it down a bit you can use a little less cocoa powder. I also used my Musclepharm chocolate milk combat protein powder in these. It helped give each cupcake 11 grams of protein and an awesome flavor!
Even though the chocolate cupcakes would have been good on their own, the peanut butter frosting took them to another level. I used two different kinds of peanut butter, peanut flour, greek yogurt, and stevia for the frosting. To make it simpler, you could just used one peanut butter instead of getting crazy like me! The frosting was also packed with protein just like the cupcakes because I used Nuts N More protein peanut butter.
You probably know that I always like to go overboard with toppings and flavor. Well, I did again with these cupcakes. I chopped up a Musclepharm chocolate peanut butter cup combat crunch protein bar and put it on the top of each cupcake. These bars are already my favorite protein bars out there, but add them to the top of a chocolate peanut butter cupcake and they are unbeatable.
PrintChocolate Peanut Butter Protein Cupcakes
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 10 cupcakes 1x
Description
Protein packed chocolate brownies cupcakes topped with healthy peanut butter frosting and chocolate peanut butter cup protein bar. The cupcakes taste just like brownies!
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 3/4 cup (90g) whole wheat flour
- 1 1/2 scoops (52g) Musclepharm chocolate milk combat protein powder
- 1/4 cup (20g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp. granulated stevia or erythritol
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 large whole egg
- 1/2 cup (113g) plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup (122g) canned pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp. unsweetened milk (I used almond)
- 3 tbsp. (36g) coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp. (30g) dark chocolate chips
Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1/2 cup (113g) plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 3 tbsp. (48g) Nuts N More protein peanut butter
- 2 tbsp. (32g) natural creamy peanut butter
- 2 tbsp. (12g) peanut flour
- 1/4 cup granulated stevia or erythritol
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Mix whole wheat flour, protein powder, cocoa, stevia, and baking powder in a large bowl. Add egg, Greek yogurt, pumpkin, almond milk, coconut sugar and vanilla extract to a separate bowl. Mix wet ingredients until smooth.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and gently mix together until combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Spray 10 silicone cupcake liners with cooking spray. Spoon batter evenly into each cupcake liner. Each should be about 3/4 full. Put cupcakes into a baking dish or on a cookie sheet and put in the oven. Bake for about 20 minutes. I left mine a little underdone so they would be moist and brownie-like.
- One cupcakes are done, let them completely cool before adding frosting. Start making frosting while cupcakes cool. Mix Greek yogurt, peanut butter, peanut flour, and stevia in a medium bowl. Add frosting to a piping bag and frost each cupcake. Chop up peanut butter cup protein bar into small pieces and top each cupcake with a piece. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 155
- Sugar: 6
- Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 18
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 11