cinnamon roll cupcakes
Just baking one day and thought of these. Why not combine two delicious things: cinnamon rolls and cupcakes!
prep time
30 Min
cook time
20 Min
method
Bake
yield
Makes about 24 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box betty crocker cinnamon swirl cake mix
- 3 sticks butter (softened)
- 3 medium eggs
- 2 large duncan hines cream cheese whipped icing
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- a few dash brown icing coloring
How To Make cinnamon roll cupcakes
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Step 1Mix cake ingredients according to box.
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Step 2Fill 12 count muffin pan with cupcake liners and preheat oven to 350 F.
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Step 3Using ice cream scoop, fill each liner 2/3 full with cake batter.
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Step 4Bake for 18 minutes. Pull out and check with a toothpick or fork (if comes out clean they are done, if not bake for just 2 more minutes and check again).
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Step 5Let cupcakes cool at least 5 minutes. Put them on paper towels to be iced.
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Step 6Bake the rest of the cupcakes repeating steps 3-5.
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Step 7Add about 3 full sprinkles of cinnamon per can of cream cheese icing. To ice cupcakes you can use knife of pastry bag your choice.
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Step 8For cinnamon icing: mix rest of the cinnamon (significantly more than what you put in the cream cheese), the confectioner's sugar, milk, 1 1/2 sticks butter (melted), salt and brown food coloring in medium bowl. This icing will be slightly soupy.
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Step 9Definitely use a pastry bag for this icing. Create a swirl pattern over the cream cheese icing to resemble a cinnamon roll.
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