These cherry chocolate cupcakes are moist, dark chocolate cupcakes with cherry pie filling mixed in the batter and topped with a rich chocolate buttercream! Cherry and chocolate go together amazingly well. These cupcakes do not have a strong cherry flavor, so don’t worry if you have cherry phobes in your family like I do. The cherry flavor is subtle, the … Read More
Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Buttercream
These chocolate stout cupcakes are, hands down, the best chocolate cake I have ever eaten. The cake is moist and chocolatey and the buttercream is smooth and sweet and just the right amount of peanut buttery. This recipe makes a million cupcakes (or like 48) but also bakes nicely into a bunt cake or a 9 inch 2 layer cake. … Read More
Vanilla Lime Cupcakes
These vanilla lime cupcakes are the perfect combination of sweet and tangy. The cool creamy lime curd contrasts beautifully with the sweet fluffy buttercream for a perfect treat! I love filled cupcakes. I feel like they are this awesome surprise tucked inside this otherwise innocuous pastry. I mean, from the outside, totally a plain vanilla cupcake, jazzed up with some … Read More
Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cupcakes
Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cupcakes are made with simple piped Candy Melt cupcake toppers and are the perfect tiny sweet treat for those you love. Sometimes a tiny treat is just exactly the perfect way to say I love you. And mini cupcakes are the perfect tiny treat. You can make half a cake mix worth of mini cupcakes (should … Read More
Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes
Pumpkin spice latte cupcakes are all the coffee, pumpkin spice flavor you know and love baked into a tasty cupcake with a swirl of cream cheese frosting! When I first saw these cupcakes on Annie’s Eats, I knew that I had to make them for my bosses’ upcoming birthday. I work in a small office, so ever since I started … Read More
How To Make Fondant Strawberries
These strawberry patch cupcakes were inspired by Martha Stewart from her Cupcakes book. She recommends using marzipan, however, I had some red and green fondant lying around so that is what I used. How to make fondant strawberries: For a dozen cupcakes, I made about 20 strawberries. I found that the cupcakes looked the nicest when there was some … Read More
Horse Cupcake Topper
I made these equine cupcakes for a co-worker for her birthday. She, like me, loves horses. The horse cupcake toppers are chocolate and the cupcakes are Martha Stewart’s strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream. They were so light and tasty! The only drawback is the frosting will melt if it is too warm in your car, which I learned … Read More
Lemon filled Lemon Cupcakes
Rich tangy lemon curd fills these tender lemony cupcakes. A creamy swirl of Swiss meringue buttercream tops them off for the perfect lemon treat! Sometimes cupcakes are the best way to tell someone that they are special. Filled cupcakes are the way to go the extra mile in that regard. Filled cupcakes from scratch with homemade frosting always do the … Read More