The Cupcake Cookbook
The Cupcake Cookbook
This is a cookbook filled with illustrated cupcake recipes of vaious levels. Each recipe has easy to follow pictures and direcions and a photograph of what the outcome will look like. The levels of difficulty range from easy to hard. The easy cupcakes are meant for beginers or just a quick cupcake. The medium cupcakes are a little more difficult and have a longer prep time. The hard level cupcakes are made from scratch, they have a long prep time and are more difficult than all the other recipes.
Table of Contents Easy Cupcakes Banana Chocolate Chip..........................................10 Apple Cider...............................................................14 Red Velvet Cheesecake...........................................18
Medium Cupcakes Apple Pie .................................................................24 Creamsicle...............................................................28 Cannoli.....................................................................32
Hard Cupcakes Almond Berry.........................................................38 Raspberry Lemon...................................................42 Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake.................................46
Easy Cupcakes
ingredients
Banana Chocolate Chip Cupc cupcake cake
1 box red velvet cake mix
2 ripe bananas
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1 cup mini chocolate chips
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cakes frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp vanilla
milk as needed
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1. Preheat oven to 375째F and line cupcake trays 2. Prepare cake mix according to box 3. Smash bananas 4. Add chocolate chips and banana to batter 5. Fill cupcake liners with batter 6. Bake 20-22 minutes 7. Let cool 8. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla
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9. Gradually add sugar (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 10. Fill frosting bag with frosting 11. Refridgerate until ready to use 12. Frost cooled cupcakes
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ingredients
Apple Cider Cupcakes cupcake cake
1 box of spice cake mix
1 2/3 cups apple cider
3 eggs
1.
cake
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frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp vanilla
milk as needed
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9. CC
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1. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 2. Combine all ingredients 3. Mix batter thouroughly 4. Fill cupcake liners with batter 5. Bake 19-24 minutes 6. Let cool 7. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla 8. Gradually add sugar (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar)
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9. Fill frosting bag with frosting 10. Refridgerate until ready to use 11. Frost cooled cupcakes
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ingredients
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupc cupcake cake
1 box red velvet cake mix
granulated sugar
1 egg
1.
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1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
8oz cream cheese
cake
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3.
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5. granulated sugar
CC
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cakes frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp vanilla
milk as needed
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9. CC
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1. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 2. Prepare cake mix according to box 3. Mix batter thouroughly 4. Fill cupcake liners with batter 5. In seperate bowl whip together cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla 6. Scoop cheesecake batter onto cake batter 7. Bake 20-24 minutes 8. Let cool
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9. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla 10. Gradually add sugar (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Refridgerate until ready to use 13. Frost cooled cupcakes
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Medium Cupcakes
ingredients
Apple Pie Cupcakes cupcake cake
1 box yellow cake mix
2 eggs
1 cup apple juice
1.
1 apple flavored yogurt
1 can apple pie filling
1 tsp cinnamon
cake
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frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp cinnamon
milk as needed
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9. CC
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1. Preheat oven to 325째F and line cupcake trays 2. Combine all ingredients except pie filling 3. Mix with eletric mixer 4. Fill cupcake liners with batter 5. Coursly chop apple pie filling 6. Scoop apples on top of batter 7. Bake 17-19 minutes 8. Let cool
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9. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese and butter 10. Gradually add sugar and cinnamon (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Refridgerate until ready to use 13. Frost cooled cupcakes 25
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ingredients
Creamsicle Cupcakes cupcake cake jello 1 box white cake mix
1.5 tsp almond extract
1.
1 box orange jello
1/4 cup orange juice
cake
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4. jello
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frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp vanilla
milk as needed
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8. CC
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1. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 2. Prepare cake mix according to box, using orange juice in place of water 3. Mix in jello and orange extract 4. Fill cupcake liners with batter 5. Bake 18-20 minutes 6. Let cool 7. Hollow out center of cupcake 8. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla
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9. Gradually add sugar (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 10. Fill frosting bag with frosting 11. Refridgerate until ready to use 12. Frost cooled cupcakes
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ingredients
Cannoli Cupcakes filling
cupcake
prepare in advance
CC 1/2 tsp vanilla
cake
powder sugar
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup powder sugar
1 box vanilla cake mix
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1.
2. powder sugar
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cake
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frosting
pudding 1 box chololate pudding
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2 cups heavy whipping cream
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pudding
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1. Mix together filling ingredients 2. Refridgurate until ready to use 3. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 4. Prepare cake mix according to box 5. Fill cupcake liner with batter 6. Bake 12-15 minutes 7. Let cool 8. Hollow out center of cupcake 9. Fill hollowed cupcake with filling
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10. Start frosting, mix pudding mix and heavy cream together until fluffy 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Frost cupcakes
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Hard Cupcakes
ingredients
Almond Berry Cupcakes cupcake granulated sugar
1 stick of butter
2 eggs
1.5 tsp almond extract
1.
1 cup sugar
1.5 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1.5 tsp baking powder
1 cup buttermilk
2. granulated sugar
3.
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frosting powder sugar 1/4 tsp salt
8.
2 sticks of butter
3.5 cups powder sugar
9.
1 tsp almond extract
1 cup berries (of your choosing)
10. powder sugar
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1. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 2. Beat together sugar and butter until fluffy 3. Add in flour, baking powder, salt, and eggs 4. Mix in buttermilk 5. Fill the cupcake liners with batter 6. Bake 18-24 minutes 7. Let cool 8. Start frosting, beat butter until fluffy 9. Gradually add sugar
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10. Mix in almond extract, salt, and berries 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Refridgerate until ready to use 13. Frost cooled cupcakes
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ingredients
Raspberry Lemon Cupcakes cupcake granulated sugar
baking soda 1/3 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp 1 lemon 1/2 stick 2 eggs 1/4 cup 1 tbsp 1.5 cup baking powder vegetable oil vanilla raspberries of butter
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3.
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3/4 cup sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
2.
4.
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1/2 tsp 1.5 tsp 2/3 cup salt baking powder milk
granulated sugar
5.
baking soda
6.
milk
milk
8.
frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
4 cups powder sugar
milk 1 tsp vanilla
milk as needed
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9. CC
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1. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 2. Mix sugar, lemon zest, eggs, and butter 3. Add in vegetable oil, vanilla, and sour cream 4. Add in flour, salt, baking soda and powder 5. Mix in milk, lemon juice, and berries 6. Fill cupcake liners with batter 7. Bake 16-18 minutes 8. Let cool 9. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla
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10. Gradually add sugar (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Refridgerate until ready to use 13. Frost cooled cupcakes
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ingredients
Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake
1.
filling
cupcake
prepare in advance
CC 1/2 tsp vanilla
cake
powder sugar
8 oz cream cheese
1 box chocolate cake mix
1 cup powder sugar
3.
2.
powder sugar
24 oreos
CC
5.
cake
4.
6.
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e Cupcakes frosting powder sugar
CC 8oz cream cheese
1 stick of butter
milk 1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powder sugar
milk as needed
1/3 cup crushed oreos
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9. CC
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1. Mix together all filling ingredients 2. Roll into log, wrap with foil, and refridgerate 3. Preheat oven to 350째F and line cupcake trays 4. Place oreo in each liner and cut a peice of filling and place in each liner 5. Prepare cake mix according to box 6. Fill cupcake liners with batter, on top of oreo and filling 7. Bake 18-20 minutes
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8. Let cool 9. Start frosting, mix softened cream cheese, butter, and vanilla 10. Gradually add sugar and crushed oreo (if too thick add milk, if too thin add more sugar) 11. Fill frosting bag with frosting 12. Refridgerate until ready to use 13. Frost cooled cupcakes 47
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