We came up with the idea to make a cupcake that would offer you a taste of the “perfect breakfast”—pancakes and bacon, naturally—after discovering a recipe for a maple bacon buttercream.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 cupcakes |
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup pancake mix (such as Aunt Jemima® Original)
- 1 cup cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- ¼ cup finely chopped cooked bacon
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners.
- Beat sugar and shortening together in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Sift pancake mix and flour together in a separate bowl; add baking powder. Combine buttermilk and egg in another bowl.
- Add flour mixture to the creamed shortening in batches, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, beating batter briefly after each addition. Mix until combined; batter should be thick, not runny. Spoon batter into the muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 16 minutes.
- Cool cupcakes on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 20 minutes.
- Beat butter at high speed until creamy, about 3 minutes. Sift in powdered sugar slowly, beating until well combined. Add maple syrup, bacon, vanilla extract, and salt; mix well. Pipe buttercream onto cooled cupcakes.
- Do not use a just-add-water pancake mix.
- For extra crispy bacon, toss with up to 1 tablespoon white sugar.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 479 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 63 g |
| Cholesterol | 64 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 13 g |
| Sodium | 408 mg |
| Sugars | 44 g |
| Fat | 24 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These recipe needs 10 stars! So good! I used butter instead of shortening. The batter will be very airy. Mine were done in 15 minutes and I used maple bacon for the frosting. Oh so good! “Killer” was the compliment I received! You will need to make more than 12 of these!
Doubled the recipe and took them to work. Only brought 2 home and lots of good comments about then. The frosting was the hit! I will make these again.