Maple Bacon Cupcakes. Bacon crumbles and maple buttercream frosting top these crowd-pleasing buttermilk cupcakes, earning them a spot in the sweet and savory dessert hall of fame. Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. When cupcakes are completely cool, frost with the buttercream.

Prepare cake mix according to directions using the eggs, water and oil. Fold in one cup of the bacon crumbles. Desserts with bacon started sweeping the food scene a few years ago. You can have Maple Bacon Cupcakes using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Maple Bacon Cupcakes

Prepare of Butter Cake.
Prepare 1 cup of butter, softened.
It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
You need 4 large of eggs.
You need 3 cup of all-purpose wheat flour.
It's 1 tbsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
It's 1 cup of milk.
You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 1 of paper baking cups.
You need of Maple Frosting.
You need 1 cup of butter.
You need 16 oz of bag of dark brown sugar.
Prepare 1/2 cup of evaporated milk.
You need 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
You need 1 tbsp of light corn syrup.
Prepare 4 cup of powdered sugar.
Prepare 2 tsp of maple flavoring.
You need of toppings.
It's 12 of cooked bacon slices, broken into pieces.

It was such a craze that people tried adding bacon to just about every sweet treat. Maple/bacon and chocolate/bacon seemed to be the most popular combinations. Although, maple and bacon has been together for a long long time already. Prepare the cupcakes: Combine the flours, pudding mix, baking powder, potato starch, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl.

Maple Bacon Cupcakes instructions

Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter and sugar at medium speed until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture alternating with milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla..
Place baking cups in 2 (12 cup) muffin pans. Spoon batter into cups, filling 2/3 full. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes then remove from pans and return to racks to cool completely..
To prepare frosting, melt butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Stir in evaporated milk, baking soda and light corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally until bubbly. Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer caramel mixture to a large bowl. Gradually add powdered sugar to caramel mixture; beat at medium speed until creamy. Stir in maple flavoring and beat at high speed for 2 minutes. Frosting firms up quickly, so use immediately. Frost each cupcake with frosting and top with bacon..

Maple bacon cupcakes that are amazingly easy to put together, completely from scratch! These cupcakes are filled with delicious flavors of vanilla, cinnamon, maple, and bacon. An amazing combination of salty/sweet for your mouth, these taste just like breakfast….but, better! These Maple Bacon Cupcakes are the perfect pairing of sweet rich maple cupcakes, maple buttercream frosting and crunchy salty bacon. Make using a Duncan Hines cake mix, these Maple Bacon Cupcakes are easy to make and sure to be any bacon lovers favorite cupcake.