These Candy Corn Cupcakes are an easy homemade cupcake recipe colored to look like candy corn! It’s a festive Halloween cupcake topped with a vanilla frosting that’s made from scratch and a candy corn!
INGREDIENTS
Cupcakes
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅔ cup butter room temperature
- 3 large eggs
- ⅔ cup plain Greek yogurt
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Yellow and orange gel food coloring
Frosting
- 1 ¼ cups butter room temperature
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
Garnish
- Orange sanding sugar
- Yellow sanding sugar
- Mini white sugar pearls
- Candy corn
