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These Vanilla Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting are light, fluffy, and topped with a sweet peppermint swirl. Easy to make and bursting with flavor, these cupcakes are the perfect sweet treat to add to your holiday baking list!

Vanilla Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

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These homemade Vanilla Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting are light, fluffy, and topped with a sweet peppermint swirl.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword christmas recipe, cupcake recipe, holiday dessert, peppermint recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 12 cupcakes
Calories 389
Author Gayle

Ingredients

Vanilla Cupcakes

  • 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter , softened
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)
  • ½ cup vanilla Greek yogurt

Peppermint Frosting

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk (or heavy cream)
  • 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
  • 10 peppermint candies crushed (or 4 regular size candy canes)

Instructions

Cupcakes:

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 12-count muffin tin with paper liners. Set aside.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar with a hand mixer or stand mixer with fitted paddle attachment until pale yellow and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
  • Add softened butter and vanilla extract and beat until incorporated. Mix in yogurt.
  • Pour flour mixture into wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin tin, filling about 3/4 full.
  • Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes in pan, and then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

Peppermint Frosting:

  • Cream softened butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy, for about 3 minutes.
  • Add powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, mixing to incorporate. Add milk and peppermint extract, beating to combine.
  • Pipe or spread over cooled cupcakes. Then top with crushed peppermint candies/candy canes. Althernatively, you could stir candy into frosting and then pipe, if desired.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cupcake | Calories: 389kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 89mg | Sodium: 112mg | Potassium: 54mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 749IU | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg