Cupcake

With ultra-tender cake and a few-ingredient frosting, this is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for all ages.

Tender, moist chocolate cupcakes stained with Earl Grey tea and topped with a brilliant magenta frosting made from fresh blackberries.

Decorate these mini pumpkin cupcakes with a team of costumed kiddos (or all by your spooky self).

The nostalgic yellow cake flavor in cupcake form. If using a darker muffin tin, keep an eye on the edges—those pans encourage more browning, and you might end up removing these from the oven a few minutes earlier. Get the recipe for vanilla cream cheese frosting here. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

Cake flour gives these classic white cupcakes a very fine, tender crumb, and the high ratio of egg whites to yolks ensures a snowy hue. Get the recipe for vanilla cream cheese frosting here.

Non-Dutch-process cocoa powder is sometimes labeled “natural,” and since all of the chocolate flavor depends on what kind you use, quality matters for these devil's food cupcakes. Get the recipe for vanilla cream cheese frosting here.

From this day forth, you will need no other cupcake recipe.

Gluten-free but clearly not vegan, for whoever’s keeping track.

Let's get some cupcakes up in here: These homemade icing and frosting recipes are what dreams are made of.

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These cupcakes, slathered with rich peanut butter frosting, are like a banana bread recipe gone, well, bananas.

Top this pecan cupcakes recipe with a creamy caramel frosting and just try to deny your sweet tooth.