Biting in a soft, airy cupcake flavored with your favorite sweet icing is one of the most satisfying desserts you can eat.
You can make your own fun cupcake flavors by combining different extracts, fruits, or jam to make them customized to your own favorite tastes.
Check out some of the top fun cupcake flavors you can serve at your next get together.
Fun Cupcake Flavor Ideas
Pina Colada Cupcakes
Pina colada cupcakes are made with a canned coconut milk, pineapple juice, coconut extract, and crushed pineapple pieces.
Pina colada cupcakes are topped with coconut buttercream frosting.
The creamy coconut buttercream is made by adding canned coconut milk and coconut extract to flavor the frosting.
To give the cupcakes a bit of an eye catching glow, shredded coconut is added to the edges of the coconut buttercream frosting.
The pina colada cupcakes are garnished with a piece of pineapple and a maraschino cherry.
Champagne Cupcakes
Champagne cupcakes are made with the sweetest possible bottle of champagne.
Champagne is infused in the cupcakes themselves to give them a hint of bubbly flavor.
The champagne cupcakes are topped with champagne buttercream frosting.
The frosting is made by infusing champagne into a vanilla buttercream frosting.
Champagne cupcakes would be delightfully decorated by adding a little bit of gold dust to the tops of the frosting.
Mint Chocolate Cupcakes
Mint chocolate cupcakes are made by adding cocoa powder to a vanilla buttermilk cupcake base.
Mint buttercream frosting is added to the tops of the chocolate cupcakes.
Mint buttercream frosting is made by adding mint extract and green food coloring to a buttercream base icing.
The buttercream is extra creamy because it is thinned out using whipping cream.
The mint chocolate cupcakes are garnished with mint chocolate chips decorated over the mint buttercream frosting.
Chai Cupcakes
Chai cupcakes are made by infusing chai spices (ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves) into a vanilla cupcake base.
The chai spice mixture makes the cupcakes have a speckled look to them.
The chai cupcakes have a vanilla buttercream icing added to the tops of them.
The spiced cupcake and sweet frosting balance out the flavors of this cupcake, making it taste absolutely decadent.
If you wanted to add a little bit of chai spices to your frosting to make it have more of a chai flavor, add about a 1/2-1 tsp in total of (ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves). Make sure to use ground cloves for your recipe.
Lemon Cupcakes
Lemon cupcakes are sweet, tart, and will make your mouth water!
Lemon cupcakes are made by adding lemon zest and lemon juice to the cupcake batter.
Lemon cupcakes are incredibly tasty because they are topped with lemon cream cheese icing.
The cream cheese icing is infused with lemon juice and lemon zest, giving you a tangy sweet icing.
The sharpened sweet icing compliments the flavor of the lemon cupcakes making them taste irresistible.
Lemon cupcakes can be garnished with a small piece of lemon.
Blackberry Lavender Chocolate Cupcakes
Blackberry lavender chocolate cupcakes are one of the most flavorful, satisfying cupcakes you will ever try!
The chocolate cupcakes are made with cocoa powder and coffee making them more of a mocha cupcake flavor.
The blackberry lavender buttercream is made by adding culinary lavender and blackberry jam to buttercream frosting.
Blackberry jam is much more concentrated in flavor, therefore using jam to flavor buttercream icing will enhance the blackberry flavor over using the juice from blackberries.
Culinary lavender is also much more potent than lavender that comes your garden.
To garnish your cupcakes, add a couple sprigs of lavender and a blackberry to the tops of the icing.
