Take a peek into lunchboxes at any school across the country and you’ll be sure to find a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in way more than one. A classic lunch staple since the 1940’s, pb& j sandwiches have even inspired a restaurant in NYC wholly dedicated to it’s genius, Peanut Butter & Co.  Since cupcakes already have a retro vibe  (think way back and I’m sure you can recall a time, if not many, when your mom baked up a batch for your birthday), it makes perfectly delicious sense to combine these two childhood favorites to create an amazingly new “old school” experience. 

Vanilla cake injected with real grape jelly topped with creamy peanut butter vanilla frosting--it just doesn’t get much better than this for me. This is my absolute new favorite cupcake flavor and super easy to make. Enjoy!

Peanut Butter & Jelly Cupcakes

12 of your favorite vanilla cupcakes

peanut butter- 1/2 cup (or more depending on how peanut buttery you like it)

butter-1 stick unsalted, soft

vanilla-1 tsp.

confectioners sugar- 2 1/2 cups

light cream -1/4 cup

your favorite grape jelly (or any other flavor you prefer)- 1/2 cup or so--enough to fill a dozen cupcakes

Place butter & peanut butter in a mixing bowl, add 1 1/2 cups sugar, then light cream and then the vanilla. Mix on medium until smooth & creamy. Gradually add remaining sugar and if needed a touch more light cream. Then add more peanut butter to taste if you like.

Put grape jelly in a pastry bag with injecting tip and inject grape jelly into middle of cupcakes (this was the fun part!). Then frost cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, eat & enjoy (this was the most fun part!).

Oh and If you don’t feel up to doing any of this, you can always order them from StaceyCakes!