It seems that are weekends are packed full of fun events with friends and family which is such a blessing. We try to attend as much as we can depending on little man’s schedule. Bryce is still napping twice a day (can I get an AMEN!?) and I’m doing everything I can not to change that because it’s the only way things get done around the house.
With all the events that we attend, I always like to bring something to the hosts house. I can’t stand arriving to a party empty handed. Many times I like to bake treats that I know everybody can enjoy or grab a bunch of flowers. I can’t always make it to the stores to grab flowers so I’ve been on a cupcake making mission. I love that they are super simple to make from scratch and you can decorate them in so many different ways.
Since we’ve been attending a lot of events that are mainly for kids, I’ve fallen in love with these simple Animal Cracker Cupcakes. They’re so easy to make homemade, full of flavor and kids go crazy over them!
Animal Cracker Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup of crumbled Animal crackers
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Set up your cupcake pan with liners
- Fill a ziplock bag with Animal Crackers and and crumble
- Fill the bottom of the liners with crumbled Animal Cracker cookie
- Using a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high for 30 seconds.
- Now add sugar, and vanilla to the butter and beat until combined.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Alternate, the flour mixture and milk to butter mixture, beating on low speed until everything is well mixed together
- Fill the cupcake pan liners 2/3 with cake batter
- Bake for 18-20 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes before frosting
Vanilla cream cheese Frosting
- 1 c unsalted sweet cream butter
- 3 c powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 12-18 Animal Crackers for garnish
Directions
- In large mixing bowl, beat butter, vanilla and cream cheese on high speed until fluffy
- Add 3 cups of sugar, one at a time.
- Add in heavy cream if frosting is looking like sugar pebbles.
- Scrape the sides to get all of the sugar.
- Mix until your frosting is stiff and wont fall off the whisk.
- Using a star tip, pipe on the frosting onto the top of the cupcake and place a Animal Cracker Cookie on top.
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