How can you go wrong turning a breakfast food into a dessert?
Nope. Can’t think of any reason.
These french toast cupcakes are a special thing. They are filled with cinnamon and topped with a lovely maple cinnamon flavored frosting. Then, they’re topped with bacon.
Oh my!
They were delicious right after baking, but waiting 24 hours to indulge created a whole new flavor level. The bacon flavor actually melted into the maple frosting and just gave it that full rounded “OH-MY-GOSH I’m eating bacon on a cupcake” flavor.
You just need to make them. They’ll wow everyone. Trust me!
Oh and when I served them to my family, I had previously baked up quite a few sweet treats for dessert. It was the first time I ever had to insure them that I did have vegetarian dessert options, too.
Haha!
French Toast Cupcakes with Maple Frosting and Bacon
cupcakes adapted from American Heritage Cooking
frosting adapted from Food Network
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups Greek yogurt
- 2 1/2 cups minus 4 tablespoons unbleached all purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- (frosting) 8 ounce cream cheese, room temperature
- (frosting) 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- (frosting) 2 cups powdered sugar
- (frosting) 1/4 cup maple syrup
- (frosting) 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- (optional topping) bacon pieces
How-To
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Line two 12 cup muffin pans and spray with cooking spray.
- Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Beat in the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cornstarch, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
- Beat in the flour mixture and greek yogurt, alternating between the two.
- Scoop the batter evenly into the prepared cupcake tin and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool for 3 minutes in the pan before removing and placing on a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, to make the frosting, beat the cream cheese spread, butter and powdered sugar together until creamy. Beat in the maple syrup and cinnamon until combined. Decorate the cupcakes with the frosting and top with bacon pieces.
Servings: 18-24 cupcakes
These look delicious!!! What a great idea! Love the addition of bacon on top…you can never go wrong with bacon!
Love the idea of the French toast cupcakes. Looks and sounds delicious
Oh my god.. my mouth is just drooling look at your images of these cupcakes. They look SO good, I could definitely devour a couple right now. Pinned!
French toast in cupcake form?!! These look super delicious!!
Totally! 😀 Can’t go wrong there!
What a delicious flavor combination! Permission to eat these for breakfast lol?
Permission granted. 😉
These look so good! I’m assuming they’re just as tasty without the bacon (whispers the vegetarian who doesn’t want to get the evil eye for not eating bacon)?
Haha…yes. Totally tasty without the bacon, too. 😀
bacon on a cupcake??! genius!
Right?! It adds a whole new flavor dimension!
Incredible! Love these cupcakes, but your photography is amazing! Honestly, so beautiful!
I’m going a step further and using…….maple bacon!!
Mind blowing and ah-mazing! Happy Baking Vicky!
This recipe was an absolute disaster. Way too much starch! The “batter” was more like dough and tasted starchy. I added more flour, sugar, yogurt, egg, & vanilla until the consistency was a little better. The cupcakes were very dense & the frosting was runny. It was usable after chilling for about 30 minutes. The finished product was okay after my modifications. My suggestions are: use cake flour (or use ap flour just reduce the amount of flour by a couple of tablespoons) & maybe a little less syrup in the frosting so it isn’t as runny.