These Snickerdoodle cupcakes are candy and spiced identical to a chewy Snickerdoodle cookie! They’re mild and buttery cinnamon cupcakes topped with tall swirls of cinnamon buttercream frosting and glowing cinnamon sugar.

If you happen to love this cupcake recipe as a lot as I do, you might want to attempt my Snickerdoodle bars and these tender and fluffy Snickerdoodle muffins! 

Why You’ll Love This Snickerdoodle Cupcakes Recipe

My husband is a Snickerdoodle fanatic, and it’s exhausting to rival an ideal, chewy Snickerdoodle cookie when it’s the true deal. However these Snickerdoodle cupcakes blew us away! They’re swirled with cinnamon buttercream and ultra-moist. Nobody can resist this cupcake recipe in my home. I simply know you’ll go loopy for them, too. Right here’s why:

• Candy and spiced. Snickerdoodle taste is a scrumptious mixture of sugar cookie-meets-warm cinnamon. Baked right into a tender, fluffy cupcake, it’s completely mouthwatering. There’s simply sufficient sweetness and spice with out one overpowering the opposite.
• Fast to make. The batter comes collectively shortly, and these cupcakes don’t take a complete lot of time within the oven, both. It’s factor as a result of your kitchen will odor so unimaginable, you’ll need these in your mouth ASAP.
• Newbie-friendly. Even for those who’re new to baking cupcakes from scratch, this Snickerdoodle cupcake recipe is a good place to start out. I’ll stroll you thru the (simple) steps to make excellent cupcakes topped with a buttery frosting swirl.

What You’ll Want

These Snickerdoodle cupcakes are crammed with sugar, spice, and every part good concerning the basic cookie recipe. Listed here are my notes on what you’ll want. Scroll to the recipe card beneath the publish for a printable components record.

• Dry Elements – You’ll want flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
• Cinnamon – You’ll be able to’t make a Snickerdoodle-themed dessert with out it!
• Butter – Salted or unsalted butter, melted and cooled somewhat earlier than you begin.
• Eggs and Vanilla – Deliver your eggs to room temperature beforehand for greatest outcomes. For probably the most genuine taste, go for actual vanilla extract over imitation.
• Milk – Both complete milk or 2% milk.
• Cinnamon Sugar – Made by combining granulated sugar with floor cinnamon. I prefer to make an enormous batch of cinnamon sugar and maintain it in jars within the pantry. You should utilize it in additional desserts, from cinnamon roll cake to churro bars.
• Frosting – I exploit my do-it-yourself cinnamon buttercream frosting (you would possibly acknowledge it from this cinnamon roll layer cake). For this model, all you want is room-temperature butter, powdered sugar, cinnamon, milk, and vanilla.

The place’s the Cream of Tartar?

OK, OK. I do know some Snickerdoodle purists would possibly come at me for this one: Sure, these Snickerdoodle cupcakes don’t have any cream of tartar! Whereas cream of tartar is a must have ingredient for Snickerdoodle cookies (it’s what offers them their signature tang, in any case), I discovered that it didn’t truly convey a lot to this cupcake recipe. So, I skipped it. However don’t fear, there’s loads of cinnamon spice to fill the void!

Methods to Make Snickerdoodle Cupcakes With Cinnamon Frosting

Let’s make moist, fluffy Snickerdoodle cupcakes! You’ll discover a rundown of the steps beneath, and printable directions within the recipe card additional down.

• Combine the dry and moist components individually. Whisk collectively flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl. In your mixer’s bowl, beat the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla till mixed.

• Mix. Subsequent, you’ll regularly add the dry components to the moist batter, alternating with milk. Watch out to not overmix.

• Fill the pan. Pour the cupcake batter into the lined wells of a muffin pan, filling every about ⅔ full. Give the batter a sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
• Bake. Bake the cupcakes for 15-20 minutes at 350ºF. Afterward, transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to chill earlier than you make your frosting.

• Make the frosting. Begin by creaming the butter till it’s fluffy, then add powdered sugar and cinnamon. Subsequent, beat within the milk and vanilla till stiff peaks kind.
• Enhance. Unfold or pipe the buttercream frosting over your cooled cupcakes (see beneath). I prefer to garnish every cupcake with leftover cinnamon sugar for some sparkle.

Methods to Make a Buttercream Swirl

New to frosting cupcakes? These Snickerdoodle cupcakes are sure to end up scrumptious it doesn’t matter what, however one factor’s sure: every part is best with a buttercream swirl! And it’s WAY simpler than you assume. 

If you happen to don’t have a piping bag, don’t let that cease you. Merely fill a big ziptop bag with frosting and snip off the nook. Then, comply with this fast tutorial to pipe buttercream swirls just like those pictured: 

1. Begin with the piping tip about 1” from the middle of the cupcake. Gently squeeze to pipe the middle of the swirl. 
2. Holding the stress, increase the tip barely whereas piping the frosting right into a “C” form across the heart. When you’ve come full circle, transfer the piping tip upward and inward a smidge, persevering with to pipe in a round movement till you attain the peak you’d like. 
3. End within the heart of the cupcake, and cease squeezing as you raise away the piping tip. Tada! You’ll be a professional very quickly.

Can I Use One other Form of Frosting?

I like the pairing of cinnamon buttercream with these spiced Snickerdoodle cupcakes, however you should use any frosting you’d like. This creamy brown sugar frosting would additionally style superb on these cupcakes, and you may’t go unsuitable with basic vanilla buttercream. If you happen to’re not piping your frosting, do this simple heritage frosting that’s excellent for spreading.

Ideas for Success

The key to moist Snickerdoodle cupcakes comes all the way down to some fairly easy suggestions:

• Measure the components accurately. In case your cupcakes end up dry, there’s probability it’s as a result of there’s an excessive amount of flour in there. If you happen to don’t have a kitchen scale, be certain that to measure dry components, like flour, utilizing the spoon and sweep technique: spoon the flour into your measuring cup, and stage it off (quite than scooping it straight from the bag).
• Don’t overmix the batter. Overmixing the batter can lead to dense, powerful cupcakes that don’t puff up within the oven. Since we’re after tender, tender Snickerdoodle cupcakes, watch out to solely combine the dry components into the batter till they’re simply mixed.
• Examine the cupcakes for doneness. Use a toothpick to verify that the cupcakes are performed. Stick the toothpick into the middle of a cupcake, and if it comes out with just a few moist crumbs, your cupcakes are prepared to return out of the oven.
• Let the cupcakes cool fully. Your Snickerdoodle cupcakes might want to cool fully to room temperature earlier than you add your frosting swirls. If the cupcakes are nonetheless heat, the frosting will slide proper off.

Methods to Retailer

• To Retailer. Retailer these frosted Snickerdoodle cupcakes in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days.
• Freeze. Freeze these cupcakes unfrosted for as much as 2 months. Make sure you retailer them in an hermetic freezer bag or wrap them tightly in a double layer of plastic wrap. Defrost the cupcakes within the fridge earlier than including the frosting.

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