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Crunchy Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes

  • 3 sq. semisweet chocolate
  • 2 sticks butter or margarine
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped dry roasted Georgia peanuts
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
  • 3/4 cups finely chopped dry-roasted peanuts for topping


Directions: Melt chocolate and butter or margarine in a heavy pan; add peanuts to mixture; combine eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla in medium bowl; stir, but do not beat. Add chocolate peanut mixture, combine, but do not beat. Fill paper lined muffin tins half full; spoon 1/2 teaspoon peanut butter in center of batter; pour enough remaining batter to cover peanut butter. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts. Bake in 325° oven for 25-30 minutes.

Yield: Makes 8 large or 10 smaller muffins.

Recipe by:
Margie Tyler
Murfreesboro, TN

Recipe Courtesy of the Plains Peanut Festival Recipe Contest

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