These Confetti Cupcakes are soft, vanilla cupcakes with sprinkles baked right in! Top them with pretty pink buttercream and they’re perfect for any party or birthday celebration!

Make sure to try my Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe too! It’s incredibly delicious and foolproof!

Sprinkle Filled Confetti Cupcakes

Who doesn’t love a sprinkle cupcake? Confetti cupcakes are soft and moist vanilla cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles baked right into the cupcake batter.The sprinkles give the appearance of confetti strewn throughout the cupcake when you take a bite!

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These Snickerdoodle Cupcakes are absolutely a favorite here in my house! They are buttery, light cupcakes topped with cinnamon sugar, with a tall swirl of sweet cinnamon buttercream frosting!

If you love Snickerdoodles as much as I do, you need to try my Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe!

I can’t believe that I haven’t ever shared a cinnamon sugar cupcake recipe here on my site. I have TONS of other cupcake recipes, including the most perfect Vanilla Cupcake Recipe of all times!

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These Vanilla Cupcakes will easily become your go-to cupcake recipe! These soft, buttery cupcakes are completely from scratch using the reverse creaming method. It’s the best vanilla cupcake you will ever taste!

Top these with my Perfect Buttercream for the perfect birthday cupcake!

Everyone Needs a Vanilla Cupcake Recipe That Always Turns Out Perfect!

Today we’re taking it back to basics! This vanilla cupcake recipe is one I shared many years ago, back in 2013 but I thought needed an update.

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Baked Alaska Cupcakes are a smaller version of the classic showstopper! Love the mini size, which makes them perfect for parties AND you can make them ahead which is fantastic!

OK, we’re here today with round two of me pretending I’m on The Great British Baking Show on PBS. Have you guys been watching? Last week I made a “Signature” dessert, which was the extra delicious Banana Pudding Cheesecake, and I’ve heard form some of you who have already made it, that you LOVED it!

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My recipe for Perfect Buttercream Frosting has only 4 ingredients! This frosting is rich and creamy, with just the right amount of sweetness, and it’s the best for spreading and piping onto cakes and cupcakes. This is the only frosting recipe you’ll ever need!

Looking for a chocolate version? Try my Chocolate Buttercream Frosting recipe that’s just as creamy and delicious.

The Best Buttercream Frosting For Cakes and More!

I am so excited to share this buttercream frosting recipe.

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Fruity Pebbles are one of my favorite all-time sweet treats and definitely my favorite cereal. What’s not to love? They’re crispy, colorful and can double as sprinkles. Plus, they’re my favorite addition to marshmallow squares.

I decided to get a little crafty with my beloved Fruity Pebbles for the upcoming New Year’s Eve holiday. We all know that cupcakes are the perfect party dessert…so I made plain old cupcakes extra festive.

Of course you could go simple…bake cupcakes, frost cupcakes and sprinkle on a little Fruity Pebble Confetti…

You could stop right there and all would be right in the world.

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These Almond Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream Frosting are the perfect flavor combo! The Coconut Buttercream that tops these is crazy delicious, light and rich all at the same time. Perfect for any occasion!

Don’t you just love a sweet cupcake?

And of course they say you eat with your eyes first (which I think sounds creepy, but whatev) so these are as pretty as they are delicious! I call them Tea Party cupcakes because they are perfect for ladylike type people.

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Toasted Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting is made with toasted marshmallows mixed right into the buttercream. The toasted marshmallows give this frosting recipe delicious flavor and a marshmallow-like texture! Perfect for cake filling or cupcake frosting!

Easy Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting Recipe

So this frosting. I’m just gonna say that’s it’s insanely delicious.  Not because I made it.

Well, maybe that. But because how did I not think of this sooner? And I didn’t Google it because I would like to go on believing I invented it.

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These Whoopie Pie Cupcakes with Red Velvet Frosting are a fun spin on the average cupcake. The red velvet frosting is a rich buttercream, flavored with red velvet cake mix! This cute dessert recipe is my new favorite way to serve a cupcake.

A Cute and Simple Cupcake Recipe

So the idea for these cupcakes was more about function than aesthetics.

It just so happens that they ended up being quite adorable!

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This Pumpkin Butter Frosting is so simple!  I topped my favorite Brown Sugar Cupcakes with the creamy frosting for a perfect fall dessert!

This recipe is almost too easy.

It’s only 3 ingredients!

I mean, frosting doesn’t typically have a LOT of ingredients, so it’s not like I reinvented the wheel…

but anyway.

It’s Pumpkin Butter frosting…it’s butter, powdered sugar and pumpkin butter.

Top any cupcake with it…squish it between 2 cookies, eat it with a spoon..whatever…it’s totally festive!

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