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101 Unique Cupcake Recipes

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These 101 Unique Cupcake Recipes have everything from easy and quirky to amazing and decadent. Be sure to try some out for your next party or event!

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101 Unique Cupcake Recipes

I have always loved making cupcakes but got tired of just making vanilla or chocolate all of the time. Since I’ve discovered so many fun and different types of cupcakes, I wanted to share them with you.

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Who doesn’t love to bake cupcakes? I’ve been saving lots of these interesting cupcake flavors and unique cupcake recipes to try and thought you all might like to try them too!

Baking cupcakes is easy with this awesome pan – I can bake the entire recipe at once! And don’t forget fun colored liners to match the different cupcake flavors and themes.

101 Unique Cupcake Recipes

1. Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

2. Strawberry Margarita

3. Easy Caramel Filled Chocolate Turtle

4. Earth Day Cupcakes

5. Cherry Vanilla Coke Cupcakes

6. Heart Surprise Inside

7. York Peppermint Patty Cakes

8. Chocolate Fudge with Salted Caramel Frosting

9. Shamrock Shake Cupcake Recipe

10. Blue Velvet Baby Shower Cakes

11. Snickerdoodle Surprise

12. Caramel Chocolate Cadbury Egg Cupcakes

13. Cookies and Cream

14. Hot Lips Cupakes

15. Mint Chocolate Chip

16. Puppy Dog Cupcakes

17. Double Chocolate Peanut Butter

18. Strawberry Filled Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

19. Brownie Cakes with Cookie Dough Frosting

20. Andes Mint Cakes

21. Lemon with Fresh Raspberry Curd Filling

22. White Russian Cakes

23. Lemon Raspberry Chocolate

24. Dirt Cakes

25. Chocolate with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

26. Triple Vanilla

27. Chocolate Pudding Cakes

28. Lemon Sunshine

29. Chocolate Times Five

30. Dark Chocolate Raspberry Curd filled

31. Grape Soda Pop Cupcakes

32. Dark Chocolate with Chocolate Mascarpone Buttercream

33. Mardi Gras Cakes

34. Chocolate with Flaming Strawberries

35. Pina Colada Cakes

36. Snowflake Cupcakes

37. Fauxstess Cupcakes

38. Rolo Cupcakes

39. Chocolate with Peanut Butter Frosting

40. Chocolate Stout Cakes

41. Butterfinger Cupcakes

42. FlowerPot Cakes

43. Spring Blossom

44. Chocolate Coconut Rum Cakes

45. Strawberry & Cream Cheese Coffee Cakes

46. Zebra Cupcakes

47. Banana Split Cakes

48. Dulce de Leche Mocha Cakes

49. Rice Krispy Treat Cakes

50. Nutella Cupcakes

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Unique Types of Cupcakes

51. Black Forest Cherry Cakes

52. Graham Cracker Key Lime Cakes

53. Mocha Cookie Crumble Cakes

54. Mint Chocolate

55. Chocolate Nutella Cakes

56. Pecan Caramel Cheesecakes

57. Snickerdoodle

58. Salted Caramel Cakes

59. Red Velvet

60. Bananas Foster

61. White Chocolate Peppermint

62. Bird’s Nest Peepcakes

63. Salted Caramel Mocha

64. Chocolate Cinnamon

65. Chocolate Mud Cakes

66. Cheerwine Cupcakes

67. Vegan Vanilla Cakes

68. Cookies and Cream Fudge Marbled Cakes

69. Pound Cake Cupakes

70. 3 Musketeers Cakes

71. Blueberry Cheesecakes

72. Snickers Cupcakes

73. Mint Chocolate Chip Cakes

74. German Chocolate

75. Lemon Angelfood Cakes

76. Chocolate and Strawberry

77. Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

78. Pudding Cupcakes

79. Shortbread Cakes

80. White Chocolate with Buttercream

81. Caramel Strawberry

82. Coconut Caramel

83. Cinnamon Roll Cakes

84. Yogurt & Honey

85. Chocolate Cakes in a Jar

86. Breakfast at Tiffany’s

87. Snickers Cupcakes

88. Airy Angel Food Cakes

89. Caramel Frappuccino

90. Triple Citrus

91. Banana Chocolate Swirl

92. Devil’s Food

93. White Chocolate Raspberry

94. Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cakes

95. Blueberry Cupcakes

96. Cookiedough Cupcakes

97. Triple Strawberry

98. Devil’s Caramel

99. Championship Chocolate

100. Hi-Hat Cakes

101. Apple Cinnamon Roll Cakes

 

Enjoy! I’d love to hear your favorites, too.  🙂

Our Strawberry Margarita Cupcakes are featured with lots of fun treats and unique cupcake recipes for National Margarita Day! Be sure to try these adorable Heart Surprise Cupcakes for your special someone who loves fun cupcake flavors.

Comments

  3. I would never guess that more than half of these were even possible! Who wouldn’t wanna try a Margarita cupcake?!? I am definitely going to try these! Thanks! =)

  4. OMG they all sound delish !!! I have no idea which one I would try first, probably white chocolate peppermint because I have never heard of this flavor before. Thanks for posting, saved in my bookmarks !!!

  5. Okay with all these recipes I can really try different cupcakes for all the events I have coming up

  6. I love cupcakes!  The margarita and strawberry flame are the ones on the list that I would try first.  Yum!

  9. Thanks so much for all these flavors. I love to make cupcakes so I will be making some of these 🙂

  15. Trying to plan for graduations and birthdays this spring…will definitely be reviewing some of these..they all look wonderful! 

  16. The Lemon angel food cup cakes look so good I love all the different recipes to choose from they all sound good

  18. WOW! I never even thought about making cupcakes with half of these flavors…..lol

  19. I always just thought of cupcakes as sort of a lame dessert, but these sound delicious – and downright elegant! Now to decide which to make first!

  20. I love cupcakes, I never knew there was so many ways to make them and the flavors sounds very yummy.

  23. What an awesome list of cupcake recipes!!! I have never seen such a wide array of cupcake recipes in one listing. There are flavors and varieties to suit every taste, holiday, and occasion. I will definitely be adding these to my recipe book and trying many of them.

  24. Yum! I love making all sorts of cupcakes I’ll have to keep this list handy for when I want to try something new! My favorite so far has been a Chocolate Guinness Cupcake with Irish Creme Ganache filling and Irish Creme Frosting, soooo good! And next week in honor of the anniversary of Matt Smith’s first episode of the Doctor on Doctor Who I am going to be making some Fishfinger and Custard Cupcakes 😀

  25. Mountain Dew Cupcakes?? Now thats something i have to check out. Who Knew their were so many ways to make cupcakes.

  26. The Lemon angel food cup cakes look so good. I love all the different recipes to choose from they all sound good would make a few of them for my next party

  28. I’m a big fan of unusual cupcake flavors. Some of my most popular cupcake “experiments” have been vanilla peanut butter chip with peanut butter frosting and margarita.

  29. My wife went NUTS when I found this post! she is busy trying a new recipe every day. I want to thank you for the 50 lb extra weight I’ll be putting on!

  30. I love making all sorts of cupcakes I’ll have to keep this list handy for when I want to try something new! My favorite so far has been a Chocolate Guinness Cupcake with Irish Creme 

  31. The Strawberry Filled Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting sound so good! I love to bake, so I will give these a try.

  33. These are great I just got a bunch of cup cake wrappers from the clearance after Easter can’t wait to try these out!

  37. I would love to  make the  White Russian Cakes  it does not only look good but I like the  vodka in the mix too

  38. I wish I had more time to try all theses! I might have to do the apple cinnomon roll!

  40. Oh my gosh, I just filled my recipe folder! My grandie absolutely LOVES making cupcakes, and you just supplied us with enough to keep us busy for a long long time!! Thank you!

  41. I cant wait to try them all!!! I should/might make 1-2 a week all yr long 🙂

  42. cupcakes are perfect for so many different occasions:  weddings, church events, parties, etc. Thanks for the recipes! 

  43. Thanks for the recipes! I have an 8 year old who is always needing cupcakes for school events! It’s nice to have a variety of options!

  50. Oh I’d love to try the Dark Chocolate with Chocolate Mascarpone Buttercream recipe! This book is awesome.

  52. all these look great they are making me hungry………maybe thats the point lol.

  53. The red velvet recipe sounds great! I tried a different recipe a while back and it flopped. My whole family loves red velvet.

  55. I cannot wait until I have to bake for a bake sale or a family party (I do have one in July!!). I can make a tray of each and never fit them all in the car! One missing is something with carrot muffin with cream cheese filling (not frosting). Love cupcakes with the icing squirted inside!

  59. thanks for giving me so many new ideas for cupcakes other than the usual ones, that i have to admit have become boring. well no more.

  60. Oh my Gosh I will be walking all summer if I made these regularly but they are so beautiful and some great flavors thank you I love cupcakes.

  64. I love to bake with my son and some of these are a have to try idea for us!! Love it thanks for sharing these great ideas!!

  65. All of my baking is gluten free and I’m definitely looking forward to converting a few of these recipes to gf!

  67. I’m going to a Cinco De Mayo party May 5 and am so happy I looked at this page. I will be trying out the Margarita cupcakes for that party. Hope they are a hit.

  72. What an incredible list you’ve put together here! Thanks so much for including my lemon cupcakes w/ raspberry curd filling! :Pinned:

  73. Wow, what a great list! I’m embarrassed to say that I only just found it today – but thank you for including my Salted Caramel Chocolate cupcakes! They are one of my family’s favourites.

  75. My daughter would love this so I have to pass it on to her. She gets asked by so many people to make cupcakes and cakes for their parties. She has a lot of her recipes perfected now and I know she’d love to try out some of these. 

  76. I really love all the different flavors in cupcakes that you have here.  I would not have thought of the combinations on some of them.  thanks

  77. A better question is which one wouldnt I like 🙂 I actually like the fruit inspired cupcakes.

  80. OMG, these are AWESOME!  I am a cupcake junkie and with these recipes I will be as happy as a porcine creature in manure (to put it delicately).  THANK YOU!

  82. Thanks for sharing these wonderful cupcake recipes! I just started learning how to make cupcakes and trying different decorating tips. I am excited to try the Blue Velvet Baby Shower cupcake recipe for my “soon-to-be” grandson’s Baby Shower!! 🙂

  84. OMG! I would eat all of those:) I make banana chocolate muffins a lot…banocolate I call them! I like finding recipes, trying them and then changing them based on the original so I can say it’s mine 🙂 I’m going to make cookie dough cupcakes right now!

  85. Oh wow, so many yummy ideas. I think I would like to try the Nutella cupcake bc I am obsessed with Nutella lol.

  89. Cupcakes are my favorite dessert to make and have. I like the softness of the cupcake with the delicious frosting. There are so many awesome recipes here to make! I will have to make one for the Holidays.

  91. these all sound amazing!  but if i had to choose just one to make it would be the salted caramel!

  92. We love cupcakes and I am always looking for new recipes. I am going to bake some of them and surprise the family.

  96. I love cupcakes. I would say that they are less mess then a piece of cake but kids make a mess always. Thank you for taking the time to gather so many together for my convenience. First one to try is the Lemon Angelfood Cupcakes. They look delicious! Tell the truth–all these cupcakes look delicious.

  97. Omygoodness they all look so pretty!! I love the look of pretty cupcakes with swirls of frosting sprinkles etc!

  99. This is an amazing list. Gotta try all of them. Thanks. And compliments for your blog. Really nice.

  100. oh my gosh these all sound amazing!  Which to start with is the only question 🙂

    • Just start at the top and work your way down lol, that’s my game plan

  101. My son’s girlfriend love to make cupcakes, she makes them at least once a week. I hope to print all of these out and make her a little book! Awesome!

  102. We make alot of cupcakes for school and home parties. I already found a bunch of them that sound delicious that I cant wait to make for us. Thanks so much for the yummy list

  105. This is great – to have such a long list of different cupcakes.  It will take me a while to review all of them.

  107. I love baking cupcakes and I am always looking for new recipes to try out. I feel like I hit the jackpot with this list of yours! Thank you so much!

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