Piggylicious Bacon Cupcakes Recipe
Bacon cupcakes with a maple frosting and pretzel topping
Ingredients
- One box yellow cake mix
- Enough bacon fat to replace the canola oil (as called for on the box recipe)
- Water (as called for on the box recipe)
- Eggs (as called for on the box recipe)
- 6 oz. cooked crispy bacon
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 tsp. maple flavoring
- 16 oz. (about 4 cups) powdered sugar
- 1 small bag of pretzel twists
Cupcakes
Maple Cream Cheese Icing
Instructions
- Put cake mix in a bowl.
- Add bacon fat, water, and eggs.
- Beat ingredients with a hand mixer according to the package directions.
- Fold in the cooked bacon.
- Add mixture to cupcake pan and bake according to package directions.
- In a mixing bowl with a paddle attachment, cream together the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy, about 8 minutes.
- Add maple flavor until combined.
- Add powdered sugar until well mixed.
- Frost each cupcake with the frosting, and garnish with crushed pretzel twists.
Cupcakes
Maple Cream Cheese Icing