Butterfinger lovers unite and eat these Dark Chocolate Butterfinger Cupcakes! Dark chocolate cupcakes topped with over the top Butterfinger buttercream frosting and chocolate ganache. The ultimate way to eat your Halloween candy.
The first Halloween that we moved to our new neighborhood we had no idea how many Trick or Treaters we would get. Common sense would have told us to ask the neighbors but no one ever accused us of having common sense. 🙂 So we just started buying bags of candy every time we went to the grocery store…and food bloggers go to the grocery store a lot. We had so much candy. So much. And while we ate our weight in candy before Halloween we still had a ton. We got one Trick or Treater that year, the neighbors dressed up their pug as a bumble bee since they felt bad that no one came by. And while he was too cute for words, he wasn’t really going to take our Snickers. We did give his mom and dad some candy but at the end of the day we had more candy than I knew what to do with.
Nowadays I just pretend we get a ton of kids so that I have an excuse to buy candy. Because when everything is fun sized it doesn’t have calories…I read that on the Internet so you know it’s true. 😉
I had a variety of candy to choose, from but I asked my Culinary Concoctions by Peabody readers on Facebook which would they like to see in a cupcake and hands down the winner was Butterfingers. I don’t blame them. The hard part was not eating them before they went into the frosting.
If you are reading cake mix and groaning feel free to make your own cupcake from scratch (THIS is the recipe I use most for chocolate cupcakes). I went with box this time because cake mix was on sale for $.97 a box and you just can’t beat that especially when you have teens at home who can eat a whole pizza without blinking an eye (or gaining a pound…grrr that youthful metabolism), so we are all about saving money where we can.
If you are not a fan of dark chocolate feel free to use a different chocolate cake mix (or scratch recipe). I just felt that the dark chocolate help cut some of the sweetness from the candy in the buttercream frosting.
My hockey team were the recipients of the cupcakes and they thought they were insanely good and I’m sure you will too!
Dark Chocolate Butterfinger Cupcakes
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Wow, these look amazing. Dark chocolate and Butterfingers? Count me in!
This gives me a perfect excuse to buy Butterfingers for Halloween!
Peabody, these are just gorgeous and you would make Joan so proud! This is JUST the sort of thing she would love to make. Great photos too. Pinning all over the place…
Oh, how gorgeous are those cupcakes?! So happy they were posted as scheduled – bittersweet for sure.
I’m sure Joan must have requested samples prior to posting, these look amazing!!
I love butterfingers too and I am sure I would have requested these cupcakes too!!
These look fabulous <3 Nettie
Yummy!! I am sure Joan is smiling down!! π
I think this is the most fitting cupcake to post, Joan would love them!! My family LOVES butterfingers, so we’ll be making them soon…my 19 yo is always looking for something yummy to bake (she takes after her mom π )
What a gorgeous cupcake! I’m just drooling looking at them and I’m sure Joan would love these cuties too!
These look amazing! Butterfingers were my favorite candy bar as a teenager!
AMAZING cupcakes. Amazing blog all the way around!!!! Love it! xo Diana
Joan would’ve loved these delicious cupcakes! I bet that frosting is amazing, I love Butterfingers!
Joan would love these cupcakes… they look so incredible! I love Butterfingers SO MUCH.
Fabulous cupcakes, Peabody! Butterfingers have always been one of my favorites, so I’m very excited to make these!
Butterfingers are one of my absolute favorites! I actually have some in my pantry right now, can’t wait to make these!
A sweet toast to one of the sweetest ladies I’ve met while blogging. These will be the centerpiece of the Halloween pot luck.
Wishes for tasty dishes,
Linda
These look and sound amazing, Peabody! I’m positive Joan would have absolutely loved them. My dad loves Butterfingers, so we’ll be trying these very soon.
now how do I convince my kids to pass over all the butterfingers π cupcake perfection
Hey Peabody, these look delish. And thanks for the reminder that bite-sized candies have zero calories. Now I’ll eat more every day. π
@jodi- yes, zero calories…which is odd since I always gain weight at Halloween. π
I think dark chocolate is the perfect accompaniment to that rich, sweet, Butterfinger frosting (that I totally wanna eat with a spoon!)