PinFacebookTweetEmailShare Jump to RecipeMaple bacon cupcakes are soft, tender maple flavored cupcakes with a small amount of bacon grease in the batter.Then, the frosting is maple flavored and crowned with a candied maple bacon piece.It’s like your favorite donut, but in cupcake form! The recipe makes 10 delicious cupcakes.

Maple Bacon Cupcakes I have a lot of love for cupcakes made with maple syrup–the ones that I use for baby’s first birthday cake, specifically.Everyone who eats them at my kids’ birthday parties comments that the cupcake is so good! They don’t even notice that it’s made entirely with maple syrup, and no other sugars! When we use all liquid sweetener, like maple syrup, we get soft, tender cupcakes that have the best almost cotton-like texture.I cannot stop eating these maple cupcakes, plain.

There is one difference between these cupcakes at the ones I make for the kids: this cupcake has one tablespoon of bacon grease stirred into the batter.This is the first step to making these cupcakes maple bacon flavored.These cupcakes are inspired by a maple bacon donut that I love at a friend’s donut shop.

The way my friend candies the bacon slices in maple syrup made me realize that it needed to be the crown on top of these maple bacon cupcakes! These cupcakes are simply maple flavored because they’re made with maple syrup, though they do contain a single tablespoon of leftover bacon grease from making the cupcake toppers.The butterc

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