Our Best Cupcake Recipes
These 25 cupcake recipes offer something for everyone, whether you want an easy fix-up for a box mix or a creative made-from-scratch treat.
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Chai Cupcakes
Put some heart in your baking and fragrance in your kitchen with our easy, cake-mix cupcakes seasoned with chai spice. They mix up in 20 minutes. Can't find chai blend? Use 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice with 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom.
Brownie Cupcakes
A surprise candy-bar center awaits those who bite into these fudgy delights. Based on a box of brownie mix, they're super-simple to bake--and easy to tote to potluck or tailgate parties.
Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
White cake mix and crushed chocolate sandwich cookies go together quickly for these scrumptious cupcakes.
Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes
Vanilla cream oozes out of vanilla cupcakes. Top it all off with a rich chocolate ganache.
Buttermilk Cupcakes with Sour Cream Frosting
Swirls of sour cream frosting and sugar flowers decorate tender buttermilk cupcakes. You can add a dab of jam below the frosting, if you like. Look for sugar flowers among baking ingredients at the grocery store or at baking supply stores.
German Chocolate Cupcakes
Creamy chocolate-pecan ice cream, caramel sauce and toasted coconut top these showstopping cupcakes. For a shortcut, start with bakery cupcakes or use a cake mix.
The BMC 2
This sweet-salty bacon-topped cupcake was one of 11 finalists in our first Best of the Midwest® Recipe Contest. Its creator, pharmacist Jill Drury of Chicago, used a scientific-formula approach to name her cupcake based on its ingredients: bacon, maple syrup and cinnamon (squared).
Peanut Butter Cupcakes
A chocolate-covered peanut butter cup tucks inside each of these treats. The tops will sink a bit as the cupcakes cool--creating a perfect spot for a dollop of jam.
Fun Flower Cupcakes
Silicon flower-shape baking cups (such as Wilton's Fun Cups) and miniature candy-coated milk chocolate candies transform cupcakes into a flower bouquet. Marzipan bees add another fun touch. For edible stems, try green shoestring licorice.
Root Beer Float Cupcakes
Root beer and root beer extract flavor vanilla cupcakes. Top with rootbeer-flavor hard candies and half a colorful straw for a fun presentation.
Kansas Sunflower Cupcakes
The Sunflower State's wheat crops and native state flower inspired this cupcake. Frosting piped into petals turns the individual Kansas Sunflower Cupcakes into pretty treats, while wheat germ adds a hearty touch to the buttermilk-vanilla cakes.
Islands Banana Foster Cupcakes
Top coconut cupcakes with bananas, butter, brown sugar and cinnamon for a tropical-flavor treat.
Cupcake Sundaes
Bake vanilla cupcake batter in cones, then top them with a scoop of ice cream, a dab of whipped cream and a cherry for an easy sundae treat.
Cream Soda Toffee Cupcakes
These moist cupcakes feature old-fashioned cream soda, a browned butter frosting and a crunchy toffee topping.
Catch-a-Baseball Cupcakes
Put together this cute cupcake and cookie combo with cake mix, refrigerated sugar cookie dough and canned frosting. For another shortcut, use red shoestring licorice for decoration instead of piped red frosting.
Carrot-Zucchini Party Cupcakes
Shredded carrots and zucchini get equal billing in this cupcake. We added raisins, crystallized ginger and pecans for extra flavor and texture; fluffy cream cheese frosting tops it off.
Fresh Rosemary & Lemon Cupcakes
Italian flavors inspired this cupcake with its refreshing blend of fresh rosemary and lemon and topping of lemon glaze.
Ebony and Ivory Cupcakes
Drizzle this chocolate cupcake with Powdered Sugar Glaze and then rolled in chocolate shavings if you want it to look like ours. Or top the glaze with nuts, hard candies, chopped chocolate or colored sugar.
Sweet Potato Cupcakes
Crown these cinnamon-spiced cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and a curl of finely shredded orange peel.
Meringue-Topped Raspberry Cupcakes
Raspberry juice or raspberry liqueur flavors these cupcakes, while meringue adds a so-light topping. Press a raspberry into the meringue for a final touch.
Pina Colada Cupcakes
Crumbled macaroon cookies, chopped macadamia nuts, pineapple preserves and coconut frosting give tropical flair to these cupcakes.
Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling and Mascarpone Frosting
These special-occasion cupcakes have decadent white chocolate whipped cream centers and a rich mascarpone frosting.
Mochaccino Cupcakes
Swirl coffee buttercream frosting on chocolate-coffee cupcakes; add a cream-filled water cookie "straw" for a pretty finishing touch.
Dark Chocolate-Raspberry Cupcakes
Turn raspberry-filled cupcakes upside down before drizzling with a rich chocolate truffle icing.
Orange Cream Pop Cupcakes
For this party-special cupcake, combine white cake mix, orange-flavor gelatin, orange juice and cheesecake-flavor instant pudding and pie filling mix. Cream cheese frosting gets a flavor punch from orange gelatin and shredded orange peel.
Firecracker-Red Cupcakes with Coconut Filling
A red, white and blue dessert stars at any patriotic potluck. Red velvet cake mix makes our moist and gooey Firecracker-Red Cupcakes extra easy to prepare.
Delicious Lemon Cupcakes
Lemon frosting tops a cupcake flavored with shredded lemon peel.
Black Tie Cupcakes
You can get creative with the finishing touches on these cupcakes, which are topped with seedless red raspberry or blackberry preserves, chocolate ganache, decorative icing and small decorative candies.
Coconut-Tangerine Snowball Cupcakes
Add seasonal color to the coconut topper by tossing coconut with liquid food coloring.
Layered pudding cupcakes
A super-simple cupcake fix-up: Bake your favorite flavor of cupcake, slice cupcakes into thirds or halves, layer with pudding, frost.
Easy cupcake makeovers
Click to our slideshow to see easy ways to add pizzazz to your cupcakes!
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