How to Make Coffee Cupcakes

If you’ve ever been curious about combining your favorite drink and your favorite dessert, this recipe for Coffee Cupcakes is exactly what you need. Rich and aromatic, this coffee-ganache stuffed cupcake is decadent and fun.

The best part though? These cupcakes look wicked fancy (and smell even better), but they’re actually REALLY simple. Like no need for eggs even–anyone could make these easy cupcakes.

If you could only smell the perfection of this cupcake that is sitting in front of me right now, you’d be in the kitchen whipping these up.

Seriously, if you love coffee, these latte cupcakes will make you swoon.

What You Need to Make this Coffee Cupcakes Recipe

And, you know, if you’re not much of a baker (yet), you’re going to find that these cupcakes are the EASIEST cupcakes ever. So simple, you don’t even have to crack an egg.

Check it out, this is all you need:

• Cupcakes
  • 2 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tspn baking soda
  • 1/2 tspn salt
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 tspn vanilla
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
• Ganache
  • 1/2 cup coffee grounds
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream (or coconut cream, which is what I used)

How to Make this Latte Cupcakes Recipe

Step 1

To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350-degrees, then combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.

Step 2

Combine wet ingredients (including butter) in a second medium sized bowl.

Step 3

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in ⅓ increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment. Then spoon into lined cupcake pan.

Step 4

Bake for 30-minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cupcakes completely before decorating.

Step 5

With your largest decorating tip, press into the top of the cupcake off-center, creating a well. Save hole tops.

Step 6

Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl by microwaving them in 30-second increments, stirring between, until completely melted.

Step 7

Place 1/4 cup coffee grounds and heavy whipping cream into the chocolate then stir, forming a coffee-chocolate ganache.

Step 8

Place 1 tablespoon coffee-chocolate ganache into each cupcake well.

Step 9

Replace hole top on each cupcake then place star tip in a piping bag.

Step 10

Place 1 tablespoon ganache messily on one side of the piping bag. Place icing in the remaining area of the piping bag. Then frost each cupcake in a swirl, turning the piping bag as you pipe.

Step 11

Sprinkle with additional coffee grounds.

Step 12

Enjoy!

 

Other Simple Cupcake Recipes

• Boozy Andes Mint Cupcakes
• Caramel Apple Cupcakes
• S’mores Cupcakes

If you love this simple latte cupcake recipe, but you’re not quite ready to break out your baking pans, just pin this to your favorite cupcake ideas board on Pinterest so you can find it quick later!