Festive Flavored Christmas Cupcake Recipes for the Holidays
These delicious and beautiful Christmas cupcake recipes are perfect for a holiday party dessert or even just for after Christmas dinner! Each one adds a festive touch to a Christmas dessert table and are so pretty you will not want to eat them!
With classic Christmas flavors like hot chocolate, gingerbread, eggnog, peppermint and so much more you might have a new favorite Christmas dessert this year! So add a few of these recipes to your baking list this year!
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Tasty & Festive Christmas Cupcake Recipes
Hot Chocolate Recipes
It’s your favorite cool weather drink made into a cupcake! These cupcakes are flavored with hot chocolate mix and cinnamon and topped with a fluffy marshmallow buttercream frosting.
Eggnog Cupcakes
These eggnog cupcakes have the subtle flavors of eggnog but don't overpower the cupcake leaving it with just the perfect amount of Christmas spices.
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
Christmas Tree Cupcakes look impressive, but are quite easy and so much fun to make! Making these gorgeous and delicious Christmas cupcakes is a perfect way to celebrate the season.
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Easy Gingerbread Cupcakes spiced with ginger and cinnamon, topped with a deliciously tangy cream cheese frosting and finished with a decorative gingerbread man biscuit.
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
These chocolate orange cupcakes are the most perfect combination of two delicious flavors. The cupcakes are soft, fluffy, full of natural orange flavor and topped with a decadent fudgy chocolate orange buttercream.
Snowman Cupcakes
Snowman cupcakes are super cute and fun Christmas cupcakes made with a chocolate cupcake base, and decorated with marshmallows and frosting!
Candy Cane Cupcakes
Forget putting the candy canes on your tree, put them in your buttercream instead. These candy cane cupcakes start with an easy one bowl dark rich chocolate cupcake and finish with a pink swirl of a candy cane buttercream frosting!
Red Velvet Cupcakes
You’ll love this moist Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe! It’s perfect any time of the year but especially Christmas, plus these red velvet cupcakes are entirely homemade.
White Cupcakes with Peppermint Buttercream Frosting
These fluffy and delicious peppermint cupcakes are perfect for Christmas and so easy to make!
Spiced Christmas Cupcakes with Marzipan Icing
Christmas cupcakes with a light, crisp, spiced sponge and a moreish white chocolate marzipan icing.
SantaHat Cupcakes
These quick and easy Red Velvet Santa Hat Cupcakes are the perfect holiday dessert for your Christmas Party.
Cranberry Orange Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting
Make a festive holiday treat out of a regular boxed cake mix! These simple cupcakes with peppermint frosting will fool your guests into thinking you spent all day in the kitchen instead of just a few minutes.
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
These delicious spiced cupcakes are a perfect dessert for the holidays! Filled with pumpkin pie spice and topped with a spiced buttercream.
Nutella Ferrero Cupcakes
These Nutella Ferrero Cupcakes are the definition of chocolate heaven and it only takes 5 ingredients. This will leave your taste buds begging for more!
White Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes
A chocolate cupcake with a swirl of white chocolate peppermint frosting on top! These white chocolate peppermint cupcakes are sure to be a hit with your friends and family this holiday season!
