Maple Bacon Cupcakes: Maple cupcakes with rich maple buttercream and crispy bacon. The best sweet and salty treat to ever hit your tastebuds.

Want to eat bacon for every meal of the day? Also try my Breakfast Burger and Bacon Cheeseburger Dip.

Ready for a cupcake that is so good you’ll want to eat it for breakfast? This Maple Bacon Cupcake Recipe is perfect for anyone who loves a salty sweet combination.

It has the sweet smooth taste of maple, with crispy salty bacon. Once you have tried these delicious cupcakes, you might want to eat cupcakes for every meal.

Maple Bacon Cupcake Ingredients

For the Easy Maple Cupcakes

Dry Ingredients: Flour, All Purpose Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and Salt
Maple Sugar: Maple sugar is made from boiling maple syrup. The syrup reduces and evaporates down leaving you with a delicious maple flavor. You can make maple sugar on your own, but it is much easier to buy the maple sugar already made. That is what I did for these maple bacon cupcake recipe. If you cannot find maple sugar, you can use white sugar instead.
White Sugar
Butter and Shortening
Sour Cream and Milk: I used whole milk. These will make our cupcakes delightfully moist.
Eggs
Vanilla and Maple Extract
Pure Maple Syrup

For the Frosting

Butter and Shortening: I like to use a combination of butter and shortening when I am making frosting. Butter gives the frosting a better flavor and the shortening gives it a better shelf life. The shortening also has a higher melting point to help the frosting hold its shape when making piping.
Powdered Sugar
Maple Extract
Salt
Cream Cheese
Bacon: I like cooking bacon in the oven for this recipe.

Maple Bacon Cupcake Recipe

For the Cupcakes:

Prep Work: Line a cupcake pan with paper liners. Preheat oven.
Dry Ingredients: Combine sugar, and dry ingredients.
Wet Ingredients: Cream in butter and shortening. Add in all remaining ingredients.
Bake: Fill liners about ¾ of the way full. Bake for 27-30 minutes.

For the Frosting:

In a large bowl, cream butter, salt, and maple extract. Add in shortening and cream cheese until well combined.
Spread or pipe onto cupcakes. Garnish with bacon and maple syrup if desired.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do You Need To Store These In The Fridge?
When it comes to storing cupcakes I do store them in the fridge in an air tight container. This is best for taste and food safety because of the bacon and cream cheese. However, you can also store at room temp and add the bacon as needed or right before serving if you choose to just use regular buttercream.

How Can You Tell When Cupcakes Are Done?
There are two ways to tell if cupcakes are ready to come out of the oven. If you touch the top, and the cupcake bounces back, the cupcakes are ready. If the cupcakes sink, then it needs more time in the oven. The other way to tell if cupcakes are ready is to insert a toothpick into the center. If it comes out clean and dry, then the cupcakes are ready. If there is still batter on the toothpick, bake for a few more minutes.