Cupcake recipes collection

Cupcakes are a blast. They’re easy to make, easy to transport and serve, and they’re delicious. They make awesome gifts and great last minute treats for a kid’s homeroom or the office. A lot of people put more thought into decorating them than they put into the actual recipes they use. While any cake mix will do, sometimes there are better options that will make a big difference in how your cupcakes are received and remembered.

Cupcake Recipes

1. Red Velvet Cupcakes. For a rich, authentic Southern treat, use our Red Velvet Cake recipe and simply pour your batter into cupcake pans instead of a cake pan, and voila.
2. Chocolate with Coffee Cream Filling. Paula Deen’s recipe for chocolate cupcakes with coffee flavored cream in the middle and coffee butter icing on top.
3. Key Lime Cupcake. Both cupcake and icing are flavored with key lime – and colored bright green.
4. Pomegranate Chocolate. Chocolate with pomegranate curd filling and a mascarpone icing flavored with pomegranate juice.
5. Cinnamon Mocha. Cinnamon, cocoa and brewed coffee flavor this one, while chocolate frosting gets mixed with instant coffee grounds and hot water to make a delicious mocha frosting.
6. Apple Cupcake. A white cake flavored and sweetened with applesauce.
7. Molten Chocolate Cakes With Sugar-Coated Raspberries. Very chocolatey little treats with raspberries and a sprinkling of sugar, and that mouth-watering molten effect.
8. Brown Sugar Pecan Cupcakes. A light golden cake with pecans and a salted caramel frosting.
9. Pink Meringue cupcakes with raspberry curd. There’s actually no cake in this one – it’s pink meringue, split in half, with raspberries and creme fraiche in the middle.
10. Amaretto Dream. Amaretto liqueur flavors both the cake and the frosting in this treat.
11. Brownie Cupcake. Makes a dense, chewy, moist chocolatey cupcake with frosting.
12. Coconut Macaroon. Designed to taste like a little individual coconut macaroon.
13. Chocolate and Peanut Butter. A chocolate and peanut-butter batter, iced with whatever you like. Kind of like a Reese’s cup in cake form!
14. Maple Syrup. A golden cupcake flavored with maple syrup.
15. Chocolate with White Truffle Frosting. Devil’s food cake topped with a rich icing made out of white vanilla baking chips.
16. Chai Cupcakes. Flavored with black tea, chai tea and lots of traditional seasonings, this one actually comes out tasting like a chai tea. Best with a vanilla or buttercream frosting.
17. White Chocolate Mud. With ganache white chocolate icing and chocolate curls.
18. Raspberry Trifle. Crumbly cake topped with custard topped with fruit.
19. Honey Cupcakes. A honey flavored cake with a lemony frosting. Awesome with tea. This recipe uses less refined sugar than most.
20. Chocolate Vodka Raspberry Rock Star. Grown up alert! The cake and icing are chocolate, and the filling is a mix of raspberry preserves and vodka. And no, the vodka isn’t going to cook off, because you shoot it into the cupcake after the cooking is done.
21. Individual Cheese Cakes. Individual little cheesecakes with graham cracker crust and the toppings of your choice – all in less than twenty minutes’ baking time. Try that the next time you want a cheesecake, but can’t face the labor and time it takes to make a good one.
22. Boston Cream Pie. A golden cupcake split in half, with vanilla cream in the middle and chocolate glaze on top.
23. Crunch a Bunch. Cupcakes made out of Rice Krispies! Very easy to make, just like the squares – only topped with the frosting of your choice.
24. Vanilla Bean Coconut with coconut frosting. Reduced coconut milk makes them super moist.
25. Chocolate Chip. Golden cake with chocolate chips scattered through, and a chocolate frosting with a hint of vanilla.
26. Cream filled Cupcakes. Chocolate frosted chocolate cupcakes with white cream piped into the middle – the homemade version of a Ding-Dong.
27. Burnt Brown Sugar. A golden fluffy vanilla cupcake flavored with carmelized brown sugar.
28. Butter Cupcakes. A strong butter flavor with hints of vanilla and almond. Very light and moist!
29. Lemon Meringue. Delicious golden cake topped with lemon curd, topped with meringue.
30. Mini-Oreo Surprise. A bite size Oreo and cream cheese awaits you in the center of each of these treats.
31. Chocolate Orange. Orange rind, orange juice and milk chocolate flavor this one, topped with dark chocolate ganache frosting.
32. Pumpkin Cupcakes. Canned or fresh pumpkin and traditional spices make this cupcake come out a lot like pumpkin bread.
33. Orange and Poppy Seed Cupcakes. Iced with a cream cheese frosting.
34. Banana Cupcakes. A banana-flavored cake with lemon frosting. This recipe uses ripe bananas, which makes it great for using up bananas that are on the verge of spoiling.
35. Carrot Cupcakes. Little individual carrot cakes.

For more decorating inspiration for these little beauties, check out 8 Cake Decorating Ideas!