Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cupcakes

Someone brought these to a Christmas party this year and they were amazing so I decided I needed to try and make them myself and they turned out pretty good.  Kind of expensive for a cupcake but well worth it!

Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake mix (Betty Crocker - Chocolate Fudge is great)
• Follow cake box directions
• 8 oz cream cheese (softened)
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
• 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 to 4 tablespoons milk
• 24 to 36 Reece's Peanut Butter Cups
• 24 to 36 Mini/Bite size Reece's Peanut Butter Cups
• Chocolate ice-cream topping

Directions
Cake

1. Pre-heat oven according to cake box directions
2. Mix cake according to cake box directions
3. Line cupcake tin with 2 liners each
1. Start with 24 and then fill more according to how much batter you have at the end
4. Place about 1 tablespoon of cake batter into bottom of each liner
5. Place 1 Reece's Peanut Butter Cup into bottom of each liner
6. Fill each liner about 3/4 full
7. Bake according to box directions

Frosting

1.  Cream together cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla
2. Mix in powdered sugar and milk to correct consistency
3. Add extra powdered sugar, peanut butter and milk as needed to get the taste and consistency the way that you like it
4. Using piping bag pipe frosting onto cupcakes
5. Cut Mini Reece's Peanut Butter Cups into 4 pieces and top cupcake with one full cup
6. Drizzle chocolate topping onto cupcake

Serve and Enjoy!