Churro Cupcake w/Cinnamon Frosting

By srumbel

There are a few treats that remind me a lot of summer. One of of those treats are churros. There is just something about them that screams warm weather and making memories with my family. So capturing everything I love about the sweet, cinnamon churro flavor into a cupcake was like… I don’t know. I love cupcakes too. So this Churro Cupcake recipe is pretty much amazing in my book.
from formulamom.com

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 C Flour
• 1 C + 2 TBSP Sugar
• 1 3/4 tsp Baking Powder
• 2 tsp Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• 1/4 C Crisco or greek yogurt
• 1/2 C Milk
• 4 TBSP Cinnamon
• 1/2 C butter
• Cinnamon Frosting
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted sweet cream butter (soft)
• 2 TBSP heavy cream
• 4 TBSP of cinnamon
• 2 TBSP white sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare cupcake pan using either cupcake liners or greasing each tin.
Sift to combine flour, baking powder, salt and 2 TBSP of cinnamon in a bowl.
Cream the yogurt or Crisco and sugar together in a mixing bowl. Mix with electric mixer on low. You want the texture to be very smooth.
Add the eggs, one at a time, in with the yogurt/Crisco and sugar mixture. Beat on medium until combined.
Mix the vanilla in to the mixture.
Beat the mixture slowly as you add the milk.
Fill cupcake cups about ⅔ full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes while you melt butter in microwave.
Mix 2 TBSP of cinnamon to 2 TBSP of fine grain white sugar in a bowl. ( You can put 2 TBSP of white sugar in your food processor to make a fine grain sugar.)
Brush melted butter on each of the cupcakes and then dip the cupcake top into the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Frost each cupcake with Cinnamon frosting.

Cinnamon Frosting


Use a stand mixer to mix the sweet cream with the powdered sugar. Mix until the texture is like small pebbles.
Mix in the heavy cream until thoroughly blended. The frosting is the right consistency when it can stand while forming stiff peaks. If not, mix in additional powdered sugar until it does.
Add 2 TBSP of cinnamon and mix well.
Fill a pastry bag with a large tip with frosting and frost your cupcakes.
Mix 2 TBSP cinnamon with 2 TBSP sugar. Then sprinkle cinnamon/ sugar mixture on top of frosting and enjoy!