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We love making cupcakes and like experimenting with different flavours to add variety to our bakes. Our latest creation is Maple Syrup Cupcakes – a super easy bake that is perfect for any occasion.

How do you make Maple Syrup Cupcakes?

For these maple syrup cupcakes we use typical cake ingredients – self raising flour, buttor or margarine, eggs, golden caster sugar and maple syrup. However, you can use plain flour or all purpose flour with a little baking powder or baking soda if you want to. We use self raising flour for ease.

And although we use golden caster sugar you can use tradiitonal caster sugar or light brown sugar if you wanted. Both give great results.

We tend to have these cupcakes plain, without any topping or finishing off. They are moist and delicious and the children love them for breakfast or an after school snack.

However, if you wanted to make them for a special occasion or make them a little bit fancy you could always top them with a maple cream cheese frosting.

Maple bacon cupcakes

A lot of people like the combination of maple and bacon so bacon maple syrup cupcakes make sense to a lot of people! If you frost the cupcakes you could then add well cooked chopped bacon to the top or maple candied bacon for something a little bit more fancy.

But, we love the maple cupcakes just as they are. Sweet, simple and full of that wonderful maple flavour. Whether you top them with maple buttercream or have them plain, you will definitely enjoy them!

If you’re looking for other recipes to make, here’s our Super easy Fruit Fairy Cakes Recipe, Toblerone Shortbread Cookies Recipe, Easy Lemon Fork Biscuits Recipe and Mars Bar Tray Bake Recipe. You can see all our recipes to date here.

What equipment do you need to make these Maple Syrup Fairy Cakes?

You will no doubt have most of the equipment you need for this recipe at home already but, in case it helps, here are the things we use to bake these cakes at home:

These are pretty much staples for baking in any home kitchen and once you have them you won’t need to replace them often and will be able to make this maple syrup cupcake recipe again and again.

Here’s our little Maple Syrup Cake recipe:

Makes: 12 cakes

Ingredients

2 eggs
200g margarine or unsalted butter at room temperature
80g golden caster sugar
100g maple syrup
200g self raising flour

Recipe

Preheat oven 180C/350F/Gas 4
Line a muffin tin with paper cases
Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix until well combined
Spoon the cake batter mixture evenly between the paper cases
Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes until golden brown and nicely risen
Leave to cool completely on a wire rack

If you’d like to pin or print the Maple Syrup Fairy Cakes recipe for later you can do so at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!

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