Cherry Amish Friendship Bread Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

  4.0 – 3 reviews  • Cupcake Recipes

These cupcakes from Amish Friendship Bread are bursting with cherry flavor! If you add a few white chocolate chips to the icing, you’ll have the ideal Valentine’s treat for a party in the classroom.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Additional Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 24
Yield: 2 dozen cupcakes

Ingredients

  1. 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter (see footnote for recipe link)
  2. 3 eggs
  3. 1 cup vegetable oil
  4. ½ cup milk
  5. 1 cup white sugar
  6. ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  7. 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  8. ½ teaspoon baking soda
  9. ½ teaspoon salt
  10. 2 cups all-purpose flour
  11. 1 (3 ounce) package cherry Jell-O®
  12. ½ cup vegetable shortening
  13. ½ cup butter, softened
  14. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  15. 4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
  16. 2 tablespoons milk
  17. ½ cup white chocolate chips, or as needed (Optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
  2. In a mixing bowl, stir together the Amish friendship bread starter, eggs, vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until thoroughly combined. Mix in the flour and cherry gelatin powder. Spoon the batter into the prepared cupcake cups.
  3. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool.
  4. In a large bowl, beat the vegetable shortening with butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy, and add the vanilla extract. Beat in confectioners’ sugar, 1 cup at a time, stopping often to scrape down the sides of the bowl; mix in the milk, and beat until the frosting is light and fluffy. Spread on cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle each cupcake with a few white chocolate chips, if desired.
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Nutrition Facts

Calories 366 kcal
Carbohydrate 46 g
Cholesterol 35 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 3 g
Saturated Fat 6 g
Sodium 166 mg
Sugars 35 g
Fat 20 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Christian Gonzalez
I didn’t care for it, but then I’m not a big fan of cherry flavored food. Will not repeat.
Vincent Cabrera
I only made the frosting part of this recipe because i already had a cake i was making but had no frosting and i found this and this frosting is so delicious and creamy smooth, we really like this frosting, Also I used butter flavor crisco, has a nice buttery taste to it Thank you.
Daniel Mendez
Yum!!

 

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