Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (2024)

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If your family is like mine and they love cupcakes, they are going to love this Cinnamon Roll Cupcake recipe. This recipe is the perfect cupcake sweet treat for the fun fall season. It’s an easy recipe to create with your family and share with friends.

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Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe

My girls and husband love any flavored cupcakes! In fact, if I allowed it they would eat cupcakes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Cupcakes or donuts! Can you tell they have a sweet tooth?

Cinnamon rolls are one of my favorite treats and this recipe combines the best of two worlds if you ask me. They get their fair share of cupcakes and I get all the cinnamon roll flavor I love. It’s also a great recipe to create if you want your home to smell like fall.

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Don’t let the number of ingredients below make you leave and not try this delicious recipe! There’s 3 part to these special cinnamon cupcakes. You have to create the cake mix, add in the cinnamon swirl to create that cinnamon roll flavor, and top with a delicious cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients for the Cinnamon Swirl

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted)
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon

Ingredients for Vanilla Cupcakes

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 stick unsalted butter (room temp)
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 4 eggs (room temp)
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1 pound of cream cheese (room temp)
  • 2 sticks butter (room temp)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 cups powdered sugar

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How To Make Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes

Making cinnamon roll cupcakes is easy, but you do have a bit of ingredient to use. Follow the instructions below and you’ll see how much baking these cupcakes are worth when you are enjoying them!

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, combine your flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  • Add the sour cream to your cake mix.
  • In a separate bowl, you will add the butter, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla one at a time.
  • Beat all ingredients together until smooth.
  • Mix all the ingredients together.
  • Add your swirl cinnamon mix into each cupcake. Making sure you swirl around in your cake batter.
  • Bake for about 17-19 minutes and until a toothpick comes out clean.

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How To Make Cream Cheese Frosting

This is literally the topping of the cake! I love making my own cream cheese frosting rather than using a premade one. There’s such a difference in the cream cheese flavor when you make your own at home!

  • Beat butter and cream cheese on medium until smooth.
  • Add the vanilla and mix, slowly adding your powdered sugar. Continue to mix until smooth.
  • Frost your cupcakes as long as your cupcakes are completely cooled.

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This Cinnamon Roll Cupcake is the next best thing to a real cinnamon bun! If you love cinnamon and creamy frosting then this is the perfect dessert to share with family and friends.

Make sure to keep this recipe handy as soon as August and September roll around. Especially when attending parties in the fall seasons. This recipe will be the talk of the party!

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Yield: 12

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 19 minutes

Total Time: 39 minutes

Create this delicious Cinnamon Roll Cupcake recipe with a creamy cream cheese frosting. The perfect cupcake recipe for fall!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted)
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 stick unsalted butter (room temp)
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 4 eggs (room temp)
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 pound of cream cheese (room temp)
  • 2 sticks butter (room temp)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
    2. In a large bowl, combine your flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
    3. Add the sour cream to your cake mix.
    4. In a separate bowl, you will add the butter, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla one at a time.
    5. Beat all ingredients together until smooth.
    6. Mix all the ingredients together.
    7. Add your swirl cinnamon mix into each cupcake.
    8. Making sure you swirl around in your cake batter. Bake for about 17-19 minutes and until a toothpick comes out clean.
Nutrition Information:

Yield: 12Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 805Total Fat: 49gSaturated Fat: 29gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 193mgSodium: 590mgCarbohydrates: 85gFiber: 1gSugar: 59gProtein: 8g

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Are you ready for fall-flavored cupcakes?

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About Victoria

Victoria is a mom of two beautiful girls and wife to a supportive husband living in sunny Florida! She's on a mission to help moms create purposeful motherhood without the chaos. She loves to share simple family-friendly recipes, inspirational parenting tips, and ways to create habits for a peaceful home.

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  1. Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (17)Joy says

    These look so good! Just want to confirm something the use of a cake mix in the recipe. I don’t see it in the list of ingredients and yet it is in one of the steps. No doubt it just got left out, but just wanted to be sure! Can’t wait to try it!

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    • Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (18)abccreativelearning says

      Hi Joy! I think I just mixed up the steps. You are making a homemade cupcake mix recipe, but you could use a cake box to create this recipe as well. Just skip all the steps to make your cake mix and just go straight to adding the sour cream to the mix 🙂 Hope that helps!

      Reply

  2. Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (19)Kylie says

    How many cupcakes do you get from this recipe?

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    • Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (20)abccreativelearning says

      Hi Kylie! You would get between 10-12 cupcakes if you do regular size 🙂 Hope you get a chance to try them!

      Reply

  3. Cinnamon Roll Cupcake Recipe - Simply Today Life (21)Belinda says

    I love when my daughters make cinnamon rolls … I look forward to making these!

    ~B

    Reply

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