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Easy Churro Cupcakes Recipe

Indulge your sweet tooth and make this easy churro cupcakes recipe. Tastes just like a churro!

Course Dessert
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword Easy Churro Cupcakes Recipe
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 22 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 24

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup sour cream

Toppings for cupcakes

  • 1 cup melted butter
  • 2 cup sugar
  • 3 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • Fresh or frozen churros

Cinnamon Frosting ingredients

  • 2 cups unsalted sweet cream butter
  • 5 cups powder sugar
  • 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 5 tbsp heavy whipping cream
  • 2 tsp  vanilla
  • 1  bottle of salted caramel sauce

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake pan with liners

  2. In a standing mixer beat sugar and butter until creamed

  3. Add egg and mix until fully incorporated

  4. Beat in vanilla extract, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon.

  5. Combine the heavy cream into the wet mixture

  6. Add in flour, a little at a time.

  7. Add in the sour cream

  8. Spoon batter about 3/4 full.

  9. Bake in the oven for about 22 minutes or until the center of the

    cupcake comes out clean with a toothpick.

Frosting directions

  1. Combine all ingredients into a standing mixer and mix on low speed

    until combined and stiff peaks form

  2. Scoop the frosting into the piping bag

  3. Melt 1 C of butter into a microwave safe bowl

  4. Mix in 2 C of sugar and the 2 tbsp ground cinnamon into another bowl

  5. Dip the top of the cupcakes into the melted butter and then dip it

    into the cinnamon sugar mix.

  6. Frost the cupcakes with the cinnamon frosting

  7. Drizzle caramel sauce and top with a churro