Cherry Cupcakes
Looking for the best cherry cupcakes? Our recipe features cherry juice in the batter, cherry pie filling stuffed inside and a Maraschino cherry on top.
Servings: 12
Calories: 1535kcal
Equipment
- oven
- mixing bowl
- measuring cups
- whisk
- frosting spatula
- muffin tins
Ingredients
- 1 Cake mix vanilla or chocolate
- 1 Pudding mix vanilla or chocolate
- 1/3 cup Vegetable oil
- 3 Eggs
- 1 cup Cherry juice
- 1 Cake icing vanilla or chocolate
- 1 cup Cherry pie filling
- 1/2 cup Maraschino cherries
Instructions
- Preheat oven too 350F.
- Grease muffin tins.
- In a large mixing bowl mix cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil and cherry juice with a whisk until well incorporated.
- Using 2 soup spoons, fill each muffin tin half way with chocolate cake mix batter.
- Using a small teaspoon add 3 cherries from the can of pie filling. You want to add these to the centre of the cupcake so they bake inside and offer a secret surprise!
- Add another spoonful of cake batter to each muffin. Be sure to spread the cake batter over the cherries so they are not exposed.
- Bake cherry cupcakes in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Let cupcakes cool for at least an hour. Once cool gently remove each cupcake and place on a wire rack.
- Using a frosting spatula, spread vanilla and/or chocolate icing onto each cupcake.
- Top each cupcake with a Maraschino cherry and serve with ice cream.
Nutrition
Calories: 1535kcal | Carbohydrates: 342.6g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 17.6g | Saturated Fat: 3.3g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 733mg | Potassium: 228mg | Fiber: 1.9g | Sugar: 263.8g | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 2mg