Peanut Butter Mousse filled Chocolate Muffins

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Peanut Butter Mousse filled Chocolate Muffins – Homemade chocolate muffins filled with an easy homemade peanut butter mousse are a welcome treat for breakfast, brunch, and (if you are lucky enough to have any leftover) dessert.

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Mornings are for muffins and most mornings required chocolate to make them bearable. Therefore, chocolate muffins are the perfect way to start off the day. Not only are these lovely muffins full of chocolate and mini chocolate chips but there is also a homemade peanut butter mousse piped into the middle of each one.

Why You Should Make these Peanut Butter Mousse filled Chocolate Muffins…

Great for Breakfast or Dessert
The Mousse is an amazing dessert on its own
Makes

QUICK GLANCE AT INGREDIENTS FOR Peanut Butter Mousse filled Chocolate Muffins

all-purpose flour
unsweetened cocoa powder
baking soda
salt
Dixie Crystals Light Brown Sugar
eggs
vegetable oil
whole milk
vanilla extract
sour cream
mini chocolate chips

Peanut Butter Mousse

heavy cream
Dixie Crystals Confectioners Powdered Sugar

How to make Peanut Butter Mousse filled Chocolate Muffins:

Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
Add brown sugar, eggs, and oil to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix until smooth.
Whisk in milk and vanilla extract.
Add flour and mix until a batter forms. Then mix in the sour cream. Make sure not to over mix as you don’t want to end up with a tough muffin.
Stir in 1 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips by hand.
We’re using a large muffin tin for this recipe because I think that breakfast muffins should be nice and large.
Fill large muffin cups 3/4 full.
Bake muffins and then let them cool on a wire wrack. You want to make sure that the cupcakes are completely cool before adding the peanut butter mousse.
Make Peanut Butter mousse according to recipe.
Carefully use a small knife to cut a hole into top of each muffin
Pipe peanut butter mousse into muffin centers.
Sprinkle mousse with mini chocolate chips.