Welcome to the home of amazing cupcake recipes! Every recipe here is homemade and you’ll find no boxed cake mixes; I am a huge believer in from-scratch baking.
I’ve developed many fantastic classics, like my vanilla and chocolate cupcake recipes. Both have been tested by bakers around the world and are used at bakeries worldwide. (They can also both be easily turned into cakes; see my vanilla cake to learn how to do this.)
My strawberry, peanut butter, tiramisu, lemon, and banana cupcakes are always crowd-pleasing treats and they’re good starting points for exploring this site.
If you’re interested in making smaller cupcakes, my post on how to convert a cupcake recipe to mini cupcakes walks you through everything you need to know.
Finally, my post teaching how to make cupcakes and troubleshoot problems is a great place to start if you’re new to baking cupcakes.
These maple cupcakes topped with bacon, poached eggs, and my maple Hollandaise sauce form cupcakes Benedict. The combination of sweet and savory is perfection and they are a huge hit at a family brunch. …
Diving into these maple pecan cupcakes from the top, you’ll be met with butter pecan buttercream frosting that tastes exactly like butter pecan ice cream – so much so that you may be tempted …
These mini cranberry cheese Danishes are the perfect size and pack a ton of flavor! I made these single-serving mini Danishes with a cranberry cheese filling. I got a bit carried away …
Sure, we call them sweet peas, but most people don't think of peas as a sweet. Prior to making my sweet pea and ricotta cupcakes, I'd never had peas in a dessert. Although these …
These yellow cupcakes look like vanilla cupcakes, and it's surprising that they aren't. Because they are made with cocoa butter instead of regular butter, they have a light, chocolaty flavor. If you weren't told about …
These Easter cupcakes baked in real egg shells are an unforgettable treat! They're also great as an edible April Fools' Day joke. I watched my Grandmother's face when she realized that I hadn't handed …
You won't have to warn people that these gefilte fish cupcakes with horseradish whipped cream are not typical sweet cupcakes. The smell of fish and onions will do all of the talking for …
Persimmons don't hold to a traditional standard of beauty. When you think that your persimmons have gone bad - when they are ugly and smooshy and make people turn away in disgust - that's the …
Candy cap cupcakes are a sweet dessert made with candy cap mushrooms - a special kind of mushroom that tastes like maple syrup! The mushroom cupcakes are incredibly light and moist with a maple, nutty …
These moist mango cupcakes topped with decadent, drippy dulce de leche are the mango cupcakes that I've been wanting to create, but until now, hadn't. Don't you want to lick the dulce de leche …
The expression "Don't judge a book by its cover" should never apply to cupcakes. While these mudslide cupcakes are tasty, their cover (a sweet Baileys Irish Cream whipped cream) is the exceptional part. …
"It did a happy dance in my mouth!" said my mother-in-law after tasting my pomegranate mojito cupcakes. I couldn't have said it better myself. But what kind of dance? I'd say a Lindy Hop. The …
Black forest cupcakes are just like black forest cake, but in cupcake form. Black forest cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes soaked in cherry liqueur, with a cherry filling, a whipped cream topping, and cherries …
Pickle cupcakes are for true dill pickle lovers! Top them with ice cream and they are perfect for pregnancy pickle and ice cream cravings or a funny baby shower cupcake! I originally created …
Sure, Chinese New Year Cupcakes are not the traditional dessert to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but the cake that I turned into cupcakes, nian gao, is. It's a sticky, glutinous cake that is filled …
