If you're planning an upcoming birthday celebration, dessert is one of the most important things! Not only do you want your cupcakes to be delicious, but often, they can be a part of your decor. Beautiful cupcakes that are picture-worthy will be the star of the show. Check out some of these delicious birthday cupcake recipes for your next party.
Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes
These lemon raspberry cupcakes are bright and full of flavor. Simple, delicious, and topped with fresh fruit, these cupcakes are perfect for a Summer party.
Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
This cookies and cream cupcake recipe is so yummy for all the Oreo lovers out there. With a chocolate base, cookies and cream buttercream frosting, these cupcakes are delicious and cute topped off with an Oreo cookie.
Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Cupcakes
These cupcakes are gorgeous, and with a white chocolate base, cranberry filling, and white chocolate orange buttercream, they are also delicious. They're decorated with sugar-crusted cranberries and white sprinkles to make them look magical.
Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
These strawberry shortcake cupcakes make the perfect serving size for everyone to enjoy! With a vanilla base, vanilla buttercream, and fresh strawberries, these cupcakes are simple, delicious, and fresh.
Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Who says cookie dough has to be just for cookies? With the hype around eating uncooked cookie dough, these cupcakes are the best treat. The vanilla base with chocolate chips is filled with cookie dough and then topped with cookie dough frosting.
Moist Vanilla Cupcakes
Simple is sometimes the best choice! These cupcakes are easy, tasty, and pretty. Finding the perfect sprinkles is what will give these cookies their beautiful look. Moist, fluffy, and light, these cupcakes will be a party favorite.
Earl Grey Lavender Cupcakes
If you love Earl Grey tea, you'll love these cupcakes. The flavor is unique, fun, and delicious topped with lavender buttercream. The Earl Grey flavor comes from infused milk that is used to make the cupcake base.
Cinnamon Sugar Swirl Cupcakes
There's something so comforting about cinnamon and sugar, and these cupcakes won't disappoint. With a cinnamon vanilla base, the cupcakes are topped with cinnamon-infused frosting and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar as a garnish.
Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
Lemon and blueberry are the perfect combination, especially when baking! The vanilla base is infused with lemon and juicy blueberries and then topped with lemon cream cheese frosting and fresh blueberries.
Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
If you love Snickerdoodle cookies, then try this recipe for the fluffier version. With a cinnamon, sugar, and butter base, they're topped with a delicious buttercream frosting. These are perfect for Fall paired with coffee, tea, or a pumpkin spice latte!
S'mores Cupcakes
Who says you need a bonfire to have s'mores? These s'mores cupcakes have a chocolate base with chocolate frosting and are topped with graham crackers, a chocolate bar, marshmallows, and chocolate sauce.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes
If you love the contrast of deep chocolate flavor and bright strawberries, then these chocolate-covered strawberry cupcakes will be a hit. They have a chocolate base with fresh strawberry frosting and are topped with the special treat of a real chocolate-covered strawberry.
White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
If you love to mix sweet and tart flavors, these white chocolate raspberry cupcakes are for you. With a vanilla and raspberry base, these cupcakes are topped with a white chocolate buttercream frosting, fresh raspberries, and a piece of delicious white chocolate.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
These carrot cake cupcakes are the perfect way to give everyone a bite-sized treat from this delicious recipe. The carrot cake batter is full of flavor and moisture. And what makes these cupcakes extra delicious is the buttercream frosting.
Pecan Pie Cupcakes
These pecan pie cupcakes are an easy and delicious birthday cupcake recipe. With a brown sugar base, creamy pecan filling, and brown sugar buttercream frosting, you'll get a light and airy cupcake and a bit of crunch from the pecan filling.
Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
Hot chocolate isn't just for drinking! These hot chocolate cupcakes have a chocolate base, with hot chocolate buttercream frosting, and topped with mini marshmallows and sprinkles.
Peach Rose Cupcakes
These peach rose cupcakes are the perfect dessert for Summer when peaches are fresh and ripe. The base of the cupcakes are made with rose water, and then filled with peaches, and topped with peach buttercream.
Dulce De Leche Cupcakes
Dulce de leche is a sauce similar to caramel, so this dulce de leche will be loved by all the caramel lovers out there. With a brown sugar base, they are filled with the dulce de leche sauce and topped with dulce de leche buttercream.
French Toast Cupcakes
Take this classic breakfast dish and make it dessert! These french toast cupcakes have a cinnamon maple base and are topped with maple buttercream and blueberries for the perfect finish.
Key Lime Cupcakes
These key lime cupcakes have a bright, light, and citrusy flavor. With a key lime base, these cupcakes are topped with key lime-infused buttercream and a graham cracker crumb.
Turtle Chocolate Cupcakes
If you love turtle ice cream, then these turtle chocolate cupcakes are a must! With a chocolate base that's fudgy and moist, they are filled with pecan caramel sauce and then topped with cream cheese caramel frosting.
Funfetti Cupcakes
Funfetti is a favorite for many. These cupcakes are simple but delicious. With a funfetti base, they have a vanilla buttercream frosting and are topped with more sprinkles for a final touch.
Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes
This recipe is another breakfast-inspired dessert! With a vanilla and cinnamon base, these cupcakes are topped with cream cheese frosting and topped off with a mini cinnamon roll.
Harry Potter Butterbeer Cupcakes
For all the Harry Potter and Butterbeer fans, make these Butterbeer cupcakes for your Harry Potter-themed party. With a butterscotch base, these cupcakes are topped with butterscotch buttercream and butterscotch ganache.
Neopolitan Ice Cream Cupcakes
These Neapolitan ice cream cupcakes are so cute and full of flavor with chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Both the cupcakes and the frosting will have all three flavors and be layered perfectly to taste each flavor in one bite.
Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes
Despite its name, Boston cream pie is a classic cake, not a pie. Make this classic dessert into cupcakes with this recipe. With a vanilla base, these cupcakes are filled with pastry cream and topped with a chocolate ganache frosting.
Apple Crisp Cupcakes
Turn one of your favorite desserts into a cupcake. These apple crisp cupcakes have a cinnamon base, filled with apple cinnamon filling, and topped with a cinnamon buttercream frosting. Finish it off with a beautiful crumble topping.
Pink Champagne Cupcakes
These cupcakes are so beautiful and elegant. Instead of water, use pink champagne for the sweet flavor it offers. Top it with champagne-infused whipped frosting, and pick out your favorite sprinkles to decorate with.
High Hat Chocolate Cherry Cream Cupcakes
You'll enjoy these cupcakes if you love a chocolate-dipped cone from Dairy Queen. These cupcakes are full of flavor with a chocolate base, cherry filling, and vanilla cream dipped in chocolate.
Creme Brulee Cupcakes
Another classic dessert, but in cupcake form, these cupcakes are for the creme brulee lovers. With a vanilla base, these cupcakes are filled with pastry cream and topped with caramel frosting, and the classic melted creme brulee sugar top.
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