Peanut Butter Mud Cupcakes

Cake

1 box chocolate cake mix.  Note: if you are going to make the cake from scratch make sure it's not a dense cake, otherwise you will not be able to fill these as easily.

Peanut Butter Filling

1 box cook and serve vanilla pudding (4 serving size)

Prepare per directions.  Once pudding comes to a boil, add 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter.  Allow to cool.

Filling Cupcakes: Once chocolate cupcakes and pudding have cooled use Wilton tip #230 to fill chocolate cupcakes.  Another option to fill these is to use a spoon to scoop out some of the center of the cupcake from the top and then scoop in pudding.

Frosting

Peanut Butter - Butter Cream Frosting

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 stick)
1 cup peanut butter
2-3 cups powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk.

Using a mixer, combine butter and peanut butter.  Once blended, alternately add powdered sugar and milk,  starting with the powdered sugar.  Add powdered sugar and milk until desired consistency and flavor are reached.

Using Wilton tip #22, decorate the top of the tops of the cupcakes using a drop technique - place tip on top of cupcake, do a short squeeze and pull the decorating bag away.  Start in the center of the cupcake and frost around until you get to the edges.  Top with crushed oreos.