Candy Corn Cupcakes

5 from 59 votes

These candy corn cupcakes made with spice cake will satisfy your craving for autumn flavors, while also taking care of your Halloween cupcake needs.

Prep Time45

Cook Time18

Total Time1 3

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cupcakes

Servings: Cupcakes

Calories: 353kcal

Author: Jillian Morris

Preheat oven to 325° F and put cupcake liners into a cupcake tin.
In a large bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients.
In another bowl, cream the butter. Then add both types of sugar and beat until fluffy.
Beat in one egg at a time and beat until combined before adding the next egg. Pour in the vanilla and milk and beat until combined.
Mix the wet and dry ingredients with a spatula until totally incorporated.
Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full, then bake for about 18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
Cool the cupcakes on a wire rack until completely cooled.

Whip the butter with an electric mixer or a stand mixer on medium-high for 5 minutes, then scrape down the bowl.
Turn the speed to low and add the powdered sugar in small increments, beating until incorporated before adding more.
Once all the powdered sugar is in, increase the speed to medium-high and whip for 2 minutes or until fluffy and light.
Separate into three bowls, putting a quarter of the frosting in one bowl, a quarter in another, and the remaining half in the last. Color the bowl with half the frosting orange using orange gel food color. Color one of the smaller bowls with yellow gel food color.
Once the cupcakes are cool, frost them with one ring of yellow at the bottom, two rings of orange in the middle, and then frost the top with white.

If you mess up with your frosting- and trust me we all do- you can wet the tip of a knife and use it to smooth over any mistakes you made. Just remember that more water can mess with the consistency of the frosting, so use this technique sparingly.

If you like spices, you can adjust the amounts of each spice you add to the batter. If you like something very punchy in the spice area, increase the amounts. If you're not a fan of spices you can either add less or take them out all together.

To make the frostings more cohesive colors, you can add a little bit of the other color of gel food coloring to the frosting. For example, add a little bit of the orange gel coloring to the yellow frosting. This will change the undertones of the colors to be more similar, and the colors will look better together.