These Halloween Cauldron Cupcakes are a quick and easy way to make your Halloween party extra spooky!

Cauldron Cupcakes For Halloween

Get creative with your treats this Halloween for your party! These cute Cauldron Cupcakes are perfect for a classroom party, a “Trunk or Treat” or any spooky gathering you might have! Not onlu are they adorable, they are really easy to make! You can use any cupcake recipe you want, although I love using Red Velvet around Halloween.

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These are adorable Skeleton Halloween Cupcakes that are perfect for spooky season! Easy to make and so cute for classroom parties and a fun activity to do with your kids!

Skeleton Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween is such a fun holiday to decorate for. You can go super spooky with ghosts, skeletons and ghouls, or so more festive with pumpkins and scarecrows. It’s really all about the vibe you prefer! Today we’re getting cute, but spooky with these sweet Skeleton Cupcakes!

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These Confetti Cupcakes are soft, vanilla cupcakes with sprinkles baked right in! Top them with pretty pink buttercream and they’re perfect for any party or birthday celebration!

Make sure to try my Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe too! It’s incredibly delicious and foolproof!

Sprinkle Filled Confetti Cupcakes

Who doesn’t love a sprinkle cupcake? Confetti cupcakes are soft and moist vanilla cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles baked right into the cupcake batter.The sprinkles give the appearance of confetti strewn throughout the cupcake when you take a bite!

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These Snickerdoodle Cupcakes are absolutely a favorite here in my house! They are buttery, light cupcakes topped with cinnamon sugar, with a tall swirl of sweet cinnamon buttercream frosting!

If you love Snickerdoodles as much as I do, you need to try my Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe!

I can’t believe that I haven’t ever shared a cinnamon sugar cupcake recipe here on my site. I have TONS of other cupcake recipes, including the most perfect Vanilla Cupcake Recipe of all times!

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These Vanilla Cupcakes will easily become your go-to cupcake recipe! These soft, buttery cupcakes are completely from scratch using the reverse creaming method. It’s the best vanilla cupcake you will ever taste!

Top these with my Perfect Buttercream for the perfect birthday cupcake!

Everyone Needs a Vanilla Cupcake Recipe That Always Turns Out Perfect!

Today we’re taking it back to basics! This vanilla cupcake recipe is one I shared many years ago, back in 2013 but I thought needed an update.

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Baked Alaska Cupcakes are a smaller version of the classic showstopper! Love the mini size, which makes them perfect for parties AND you can make them ahead which is fantastic!

OK, we’re here today with round two of me pretending I’m on The Great British Baking Show on PBS. Have you guys been watching? Last week I made a “Signature” dessert, which was the extra delicious Banana Pudding Cheesecake, and I’ve heard form some of you who have already made it, that you LOVED it!

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My recipe for Perfect Buttercream Frosting has only 4 ingredients! This frosting is rich and creamy, with just the right amount of sweetness, and it’s the best for spreading and piping onto cakes and cupcakes. This is the only frosting recipe you’ll ever need!

Looking for a chocolate version? Try my Chocolate Buttercream Frosting recipe that’s just as creamy and delicious.

The Best Buttercream Frosting For Cakes and More!

I am so excited to share this buttercream frosting recipe.

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Fruity Pebbles are one of my favorite all-time sweet treats and definitely my favorite cereal. What’s not to love? They’re crispy, colorful and can double as sprinkles. Plus, they’re my favorite addition to marshmallow squares.

I decided to get a little crafty with my beloved Fruity Pebbles for the upcoming New Year’s Eve holiday. We all know that cupcakes are the perfect party dessert…so I made plain old cupcakes extra festive.

Of course you could go simple…bake cupcakes, frost cupcakes and sprinkle on a little Fruity Pebble Confetti…

You could stop right there and all would be right in the world.

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These Almond Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream Frosting are the perfect flavor combo! The Coconut Buttercream that tops these is crazy delicious, light and rich all at the same time. Perfect for any occasion!

Don’t you just love a sweet cupcake?

And of course they say you eat with your eyes first (which I think sounds creepy, but whatev) so these are as pretty as they are delicious! I call them Tea Party cupcakes because they are perfect for ladylike type people.

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Toasted Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting is made with toasted marshmallows mixed right into the buttercream. The toasted marshmallows give this frosting recipe delicious flavor and a marshmallow-like texture! Perfect for cake filling or cupcake frosting!

Easy Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting Recipe

So this frosting. I’m just gonna say that’s it’s insanely delicious.  Not because I made it.

Well, maybe that. But because how did I not think of this sooner? And I didn’t Google it because I would like to go on believing I invented it.

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These Whoopie Pie Cupcakes with Red Velvet Frosting are a fun spin on the average cupcake. The red velvet frosting is a rich buttercream, flavored with red velvet cake mix! This cute dessert recipe is my new favorite way to serve a cupcake.

A Cute and Simple Cupcake Recipe

So the idea for these cupcakes was more about function than aesthetics.

It just so happens that they ended up being quite adorable!

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This Pumpkin Butter Frosting is so simple!  I topped my favorite Brown Sugar Cupcakes with the creamy frosting for a perfect fall dessert!

This recipe is almost too easy.

It’s only 3 ingredients!

I mean, frosting doesn’t typically have a LOT of ingredients, so it’s not like I reinvented the wheel…

but anyway.

It’s Pumpkin Butter frosting…it’s butter, powdered sugar and pumpkin butter.

Top any cupcake with it…squish it between 2 cookies, eat it with a spoon..whatever…it’s totally festive!

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These Coke Float Cupcakes are so fun! I used Soda Stream “Cola” Syrup in the frosting to really amp up the Coke flavor!

Hello my friends.

I’ve got another cupcake for you today…

Are cupcakes over?

Someone told me that.. you know that cupcakes are “over”.

Isn’t that a dumb thing to say?

Like, hello…delicious individual sized cakes are not a thing anymore, get over it.

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This Devil’s Food Snickers Cheesecake Cupcake recipe is easy and fantastic!

These cupcakes are against the grain for me…Notice there’s no giant swirl of frosting up there? Really, what’s a cupcake without a giant swirl of frosting? But just stick with me here.

These cupcakes have something even better baked inside…cheesecake. And Snickers.

I’ll wait a second while you let that sink in.

What’s even better is the recipe is SUPER simple.

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These M&M Cupcakes are so crazy good! ANDDD there’s M&M Frosting on top of a the moist Milk Chocolate Cupcake!

So these cupcakes. I hate to say it, but they were totally my kid’s idea.  Again.

Earlier in the week I shared his Red Velvet Cake Krispie Treats.

And today. Well. He’s nailed. it.

Again.

I honestly need to put him on the pay roll, because these are my new favorite cupcake.

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These Bananas Foster Cupcakes are so delicious! Soft brown sugar cupcakes are frosted with bananas foster icing for the ultimate banana treat!

Banana Foster Cupcakes Recipe

So I am not a huge banana person.

Actually it’s like my least favorite fruit.

I think it’s a texture thing.

Unless.

UNLESS..it’s combined with caramel or brown sugar.

I’m not sure what either of those things do to the banana, but basically it makes it a dessert I can’t live without.

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These Blackout Cupcakes are literally stuffed with chocolate! Devil’s Food Cupcakes are filled with brownie batter filling and topped with a whipped chocolate ganache, brownies, chocolate chips and milk chocolate!

The Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

So remember when I went to Texas a few weeks ago and ate my way through Austin?

Well, there was one place on that trip that I dream about still.

Gourdough’s Doughnut Truck.

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These Karamel Sutra Cupcakes are inspired by the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor. They’re super moist and decadent chocolate cupcakes with a caramel sauce filling and a chocolate buttercream caramel swirl frosting!

Chocolate and Caramel Swirl Cupcakes

Ben and Jerry’s Week is still a-go.

Round one was fun with What A Cluster Bars, Cherry Garcia Cake and Phish Food Pie.

Round two, we’re getting a little scandy.

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These Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting are to die for! The cupcakes are so soft and filled with all the glorious gingerbread flavors. And don’t even get me started on the incredibly tasty frosting!

Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting

So this frosting, you guys.

It’s sort of perfect.

It’s way different from my usual kill-me-now frosting.  So if you’re looking for a really stable buttercream, this isn’t for you.

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Hot Chocolate Frosting is a wintertime take on traditional chocolate frosting! Made with dry hot chocolate mix, this homemade frosting is perfect for cupcakes and more. It’s hot cocoa in frosting form!

Hot Chocolate Frosting Recipe

Well, it’s officially cold up here in the Northeast.

And apparently winter doesn’t officially start until like December 21st or something, which coincidentally marks the end of the world… at least according to the Mayans…who I am frankly quite scared of.  I mean, they have been right a lot, I’ve heard.

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