Easy Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting recipe. Perfect nut free dessert idea to bring to birthdays or potlucks.
Have you ever done a long distance relationship? Because me and John are starting off our first year of marriage on the opposite sides of Canada, and it is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
That is also considering the fact that we have done long distance for 2 years in the past. Maybe marriage really does change things.
But lucky for me, John is flying over here tomorrow to stay for a week. The only reason he is flying over in the first place is for his PhD Convocation, but he will stay for a little longer so that we can spend at least SOME time together during our first year or marriage.
Now I need to pretend that I keep the house clean and DON’T lounge around in my pajamas all day long on a regular basis. Also, I am thinking of making enough cupcakes and cookies so that he will want to stay longer.
If these Honey Cupcakes with Honey Frosting don’t do the trick, I don’t know what will.
One of the ingredients in these cupcakes that I am OBSESSING over is the honey.
Canadians, have you heard of Nude Bee Honey?? It is one of the best honeys that I have ever tried. All of their honey varieties have such unique flavour profiles because, depending on the floral source of the honey, the flavours taste so much different! I have tried the blueberry, orange, buckwheat and wildflower honeys, and they have all been so super unique, that I may not want to buy another honey brand again!
Best of all, all of their honeys are on sale right now. PLUS, free shipping on orders over $20. That’s a steal in my opinion.
Also Christmas is coming up fast. And I’m almost done my last jar of honey. Just saying 😉
I gave some of these cupcakes to my students last week, and they were very surprised by how good they were. They told me that they never had a honey cupcake before, but they also said this tasted a lot better than any honey that they have tried in the past.
Maybe good enough for another marriage proposal from my traveling husband? You laugh now, but until you try these cupcakes, you will never know what you are missing out on.
If you try this recipe, let me know! Rate it, leave a comment and tag me with #atasteofmadness on Instagram! I always love seeing what you are creating!
Honey Cupcakes with Honey Frosting
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tsp white vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with paper liners and set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix together the milk and vinegar. Set aside to "sour".
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs one at a time, mixing after every addition. Mix in the honey, vanilla and "soured" milk.
- Slowly add in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until just combined.
- Scoop the batter evenly in the prepared muffin pans, filling until around 3/4 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Mix in the icing sugar and honey.
- Pipe the frosting on the cooled cupcakes.
Your pictures are fantastic. Love the pour shot. I am vegan and don’t do honey so am wondering how they would taste if I substituted w/ agave nectar. I’m gonna try it and come back and let you know.
Thank you so much Deborah! I am sure they would taste amazing. Let me know if you give it a go!
My father in law raises bees and this sounds like a lovely way to use their delicious honey! I have not made honey frosting before, and it looks beautiful!
You must try it!! It is so good 🙂
Wow, what could be better than honey cupcakes! I could eat a dozen just to myself.
Thanks Dianna! It is so hard to restrain myself 😉
Wow these Cupcakes are incredibly beautiful! This is a really great job and I can not wait to try your impressive dessert.
Thanks Dan! The honey is the best part 😉
I love honey cupcakes and these are so simple and easy to make. Love the drizzling honey shot. Can’t wait to try these. So good
Thanks Veena!! The honey makes them look so good, don’t you think 😉
I think honey is one of those overlooked flavors. It never gets to be the star. Until now. So going to make these.
Thanks Jen! I agree! Here’s to bringing honey to the spotlight 🙂
These cupcakes sound great, honey can be such a wonderful flavour. Don’t worry, the best part of long distance relationships is everytime you get together it’s like the honeymoon all over again. Me and the hubby were like that for years when we were both in the Navy. Now we are retired from the sea and live a weird normal life…lol.
Hahah, it is true! Thanks Emma!
These cupcake are so beautiful and nothing better then cupcake and honey!
I agree. Honey makes everything so much better 🙂
These look delicious. You had me at “cream cheese” :0
It’s hard to resist a good cream cheese frosting 😉
those cupcakes looks so delicious!!!!
Thank you so much Louise!
I need to win the Honey contest so I can make these delicious looking cupcakes, mmmmm
Yess!! Good luck Lynda!
I had never heard of Nude Bee honey before, but we sure do love honey in this house. Those muffins look so simple and those are the sort that appeal to me.
Yess! I am glad I could introduce you to them! Their honey is so good!
This looks delish and simple to make.
Yes!! So quick and easy 🙂
These honey cupcakes with honey cream cheese frosting are so beautiful and decadent looking! My little gang will devour them without a doubt. Thanks for sharing such an awesome one of a kind recipe with us. Love it!
Thanks Wanda!! I am very much addicted to them!
There is no measurement amount for the cream cheese in the frosting. How much should I use?
Oops, sorry. That was a mistake. I made these with regular frosting. However, if you wanted a really good cream cheese frosting recipe, my favourite is with this recipe:
https://www.atasteofmadness.com/2016/02/red-velvet-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese.html
and add some honey in it!
Do you have a honey frosting recipe?
The honey frosting on this recipe is pretty good!
But it doesn’t have measurements for cream cheese. In the directions it says to cream together the butter and the cream cheese.
So sorry! I don’t know how I screwed up writing up this recipe so much!
I tried it again, and yes, I did add cream cheese to this frosting. I changed it in the recipe just now. So sorry for the confusion!
I was intrigued so I had to try these. I was asked to make cupcakes for a baby shower so I threw these in as a bonus. These are amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Yay! I am so glad to hear. Thanks Gina 🙂
Would I have to make any adjustments for this recipe for it to be used for a cake? Other thank the baking time? Thanks.
The baking time would be the only thing you need to change. Let me know how it goes 🙂
Hi, what if all I have is distilled white vinegar? Is that ok? I know you say it to curdle the milk..I have lemons if that is more preferable.
That would still work! Let me know if you give it a go 🙂
Hi, I am making this for a school cupcake competition. Would you say that the cake from this recipe with honey buttercream is too much honey flavor? I didn’t think that it was, but the people in my group keep saying it’d be too overpowering… It’d be nice to have another opinion.
Personally I don’t think so, but then again I really like honey haha. I think it really depends on what honey you are using!