Hello Half Baked readers. It’s Lauren from Crave. Indulge. Satisfy. I want to start off first by thanking Carrie for asking me to be a part of her amazingly gorgeous and always inspiring cake blog! I am honored to be a new contributor on Half Baked and look forward to sharing many great cupcake recipes and photos with you monthly!  Today I am sharing my first cupcake creation to kick off summer, Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting!
Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting
{makes 1 dozen cupcakes}
For the cake:
1 stick butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 12 cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.
- In medium bowl mix together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
- In small bowl mix together wet ingredients: buttermilk, honey and vanilla, set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer cream butter and sugar on medium speed until combined.
- Add eggs, one at a time beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl as needed.
- Gradually add the dry and wet ingredients, alternating starting and ending with dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Using ice cream scoop fill cupcake liners about 2/3 full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes.
- Let cupcakes cool in pans for 5 minutes, then remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
- Once cupcakes are completely cool, ice with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting.
For the frosting:
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
4 oz cream cheese, softened
3 cups confectioner’s sugar
3 Tbsp honey
yellow food coloring (optional)
yellow sugar sprinkles
- In bowl of stand mixer cream butter and cream cheese until combined.
- Gradually add confectioner’s sugar and continue to mixing scraping down sides of bowl as needed.
- Mix in honey.
- If desired add a few drops of yellow food coloring to slightly tint the icing.
- Place the icing in a piping bag fitted with a round decorating tip and swirl the frosting on top of the cupcake going in a circular motion.
- Add some yellow sugar sprinkles and enjoy!
These cupcakes are amazingly delicious and absolutely scream summer time! Enjoy!
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Lauren is a regular contributor for Half Baked. She is a self-taught baker and lover of all things sugar. Read more about Lauren on her bio page. |
They look perfect! I too picked up some raw local honey at my Farmers Market and have been looking for something great to make with it besides honey butter for my cornbread muffins! Printing your recipe now! Thanks!
They look delicious! Can you tell me what tip you used? I have been trying to find a large circular tip, but haven’t had any luck locally and need to order it online.
Congratulations on your first post and being a contributor. Your presentation was great. The cupcakes look so refreshing. I am waiting for your next post.
My mouth is watering… these look so yummy! Great post Lauren! Looking forward to your posts on HB!
They look great! Can’t wait for Lauren to share some of her other recipies!
Those look delicious! And that cream cheese frosting looks amazing. I can never get mine to turn out like that. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks again Carrie for asking me to be a Half Baked contributor! I had a blast creating this recipe!
Trish: I used a large round tip, either Wilton 1A or Ateco 806 will work, I have both of them. You can order them online! I had a hard time finding them in my local stores too.
And thanks to everyone else for all the sweet comments!
These look so delicious! And thanks for noting which tip you used for the frosting. Looking forward to more posts.
Congratulations, Lauren, on your first post! Looking forward to reading many more of your exciting recipes. Great pictures, too!
Welcome Lauren! Looking forward to more fab recipes from you. I’m not opposed to eating cupcakes for breakfast either.
my stomach just growled realllllly loudly! :O yay! go team! : )
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tried to make some but its pretty guwy in the middle, Im guessing its not ment to be like that?
Brenda
I made 4 dozen of these cupcakes for my daughter’s “Pooh” themed baby shower and they were a huge hit!!! I had to bake them longer than what the recipe said to get the inside to cook properly, but they were so yummy and think my pregnant daughter ate 4 of them before I even had them frosted!!!
Hi,
Can you please tell me how many grams is the butter stick in your cup cake recopies? Thanks!
Delicious! I just baked these cupcakes for my sister-in-law’s bayBEE shower. A unique flavor that’s not too rich. Perfect for the theme of our event. Thanks for sharing!
I just made these and WOW!!! I used a different frosting recipe (Made these on a whim, working with what I had on hand) but the cupcake itself is AWESOME. My favorite part of baking is eating a warm cupcake, fresh out of the oven, with butter… and these are PERFECT for that. So good.
I couldn’t help myself – I blogged about your cupcakes! Here’s a link, where I give you tons of credit!
http://www.foodgoodlaundrybad.com/2011/09/frosting-from-box-naturally-nora.html
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Let me first start off by saying that I am not an experienced baker…at all! But I found your directions very, very helpful. I found this site via pinterest because I was looking for cupcake recipes to make for my son’s first birthday. I saw these, thought they sounded amazing and decided to do a trial run. They are the most amazing cupcakes I have ever tried! I will definetely be using this recipe for the party and many, many other events im sure! Thank you so very much for posting this!
I doubled the recipe making a dozen jumbo cupcakes and baked them at 325 for 28 minutes. worked great!
I made these cupcakes for my 3yr old’s bumblebee birthday party and they were a huge hit. They turned out so pretty and people talked about them for weeks. I made the cupcakes ahead of time and froze them and then the day of the party frosted. They were moist and fluffy and the best icing I had ever eaten. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe
These cupcakes look yummy! I will certainly try them out. Was wondering if this recipe can be made for a cake?
Oh my stars! I made these cupcakes for a baby shower and they turned out so pretty. The icing is to die for! Thank you so much for posting this terrific recipe. I stuck to the recipe exactly
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