Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes

These delicious cinnamon toast crunch cupcakes are a fun dessert with a tasty cinnamon sugar flavor. They have little cinnamon bits in the cake and are topped with a cinnamon toast crunch buttercream.

Why This Recipe Rocks

This easy cupcakes recipe is a fun way to incorporate your favorite cereals into a dessert.

This cupcake recipe and method can be used to make other cereal flavored cupcakes.

These are made with a cake mix to save you time.

These are so tasty too!

Ingredients

Cinnamon cupcakes are so easy to make.

• cinnamon toast cereal
• white cake mix
• eggs
• powdered sugar
• butter
• vanilla
• cinnamon chips
• whipping cream

See recipe card for quantities.

Instructions

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Step One: Heat oven to 375°f. Place paper liners into muffin cups. In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, cake mix, vegetable oil and water. Fold in crushed cereal pieces. (Crumble cereal pieces in a food processor or using a rolling pin).

Step Two: Pour better into prepared cupcake pan. Place into oven and bake as directed.

Step Three: Prepare frosting per recipe card below. Prepare drizzle with cinnamon chips and milk.

Step Four: Once cupcakes have cooled, frost with frosting, drizzle caramel with a spoon.

Hint: For best results, use room temperature butter when making the frosting.

Substitutions

Here are a few substitutions for this recipe

• Cake Mix - You can use a vanilla cake mix or white cake mix in place of the yellow cake mix.
• Caramel Drizzle - You can use a caramel sauce from your grocery store rather than make your own.
• Cake - You can use this recipe to make a Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cake instead of cupcakes if you wish.

Equipment

For this recipe you will need the following:

• large mixing bowl
• electric mixer
• cupcake or muffin tins
• cupcake liners
• piping bag - optional
• piping tip - optional

Storage

Store cupcakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes

Raquel Pineira

These delicious cinnamon toast crunch cupcakes are a fun dessert with a tasty cinnamon sugar flavor. Easy to make and a family favorite.

5 from 34 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course brunch or dessert, Cupcakes

Cuisine American

Servings 24

Calories 293 kcal

Equipment

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  24 cupcake liners
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  cupcake tin
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  Bowl
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  mixer
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  piping bag
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  piping tip

Ingredients

  

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Cupcake Ingredients

• 1 yellow cake mix
• 1 cup crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal
• ¾ cup water
• ⅓ cup cooking oil
• 4 large eggs

Frosting Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups salted butter softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon salt I used pink Himalayan
• 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• ⅓ cup crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal

Drizzle Ingredients

• ⅓ cup Hershey’s Cinnamon Chips
• ½ tablespoon milk

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a standard muffin tin.
• In a large mixing bowl filled with the cake mix, add in the water, oil, and eggs. Using a hand or stand mixer, mix on medium until well incorporated.
• Fold in ¾ cup of the crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal.
• Add batter into the muffin tin until each is about ⅔ full. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Frosting Preparation

• In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter, and beat until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla extract and salt.
• Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding in a tablespoon of the cream in between each cup. Continue to mix for 1 minute or until creamy.
• Fill your prepared piping bag with frosting. Frost cupcakes.

Caramel Drizzle

• In a small bowl, add the cinnamon chips and milk. Heat at 50% power for 25 seconds. Stir. If the chips are not completely melted, repeat.
• Drizzle mixture over the frosted cupcakes. Top with a bit of the crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal. Enjoy!

Notes

*If you can’t find the cinnamon chips, you can skip this step

For Best Results - use a tea spoon to drizzle caramel sauce on cupcakes.

Nutrition

Calories: 293kcalCarbohydrates: 38gProtein: 1gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 33mgSodium: 298mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 1gSugar: 29gVitamin A: 383IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 51mgIron: 1mg

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