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Home » Baking & Desserts » Cupcakes » The Mix-and-Match Cupcake Creator

11 March 2017

The Mix-and-Match Cupcake Creator

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Cupcakes are a great way to get creative in the kitchen. You can make one kind of sponge, another buttercream and perhaps a hidden centre for a little surprise.

Create your own perfect cupcake recipe. Choose your sponge, choose your filling, choose your icing and enjoy!

I’ve shared quite a few cupcake recipes on here over time, but (especially for my simpler ones) I’ve always tended to go for the obvious match – chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream, vanilla with vanilla, etc… so I wanted to create a place where you can find everything together, allowing you to mix and match to your heart’s content.

I’ve also got a collection of my more creative cupcakes just in case you don’t fancy having to come up with the combinations yourself.

If there’s a sponge, icing or filling that’s not here but you’d love to see, let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to add it.

1) Choose your sponge

  • Close up of a Biscoff cupcake. The cupcakes is decorated with Biscoff buttercream, and topped with the Biscoff biscuit.
    Biscoff Buttercream
  • Carrot Cake Cupcakes
  • These delicious sticky gingerbread cupcakes are made with ground ginger, chopped stem ginger and brushed with ginger syrup so they're packed full of flavour and perfectly moist. The ideal treat for any gingerbread lovers.
    Sticky Gingerbread Cupcakes
  • Oreo cupcakes on a wooden board
    Oreo Cupcakes
  • Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes
  • Coconut cupcakes iced with coconut buttercream on a cooling rack.
    Coconut Cupcakes
  • chocolate orange cupcakes buttercream-3
    Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
  • Dairy-free chocolate cupcakes topped with dairy-free chocolate buttercream.
    Dairy-Free Chocolate Cupcakes
  • Baileys-Cupcakes-4
    Bailey’s Cupcakes
  • Mothers-Day-Cupcake-b
    Hidden Hearts Cupcakes
  • Coffee cupcakes topped with coffee buttercream on a wooden board with cake forks at the side.
    Coffee Cupcakes
  • chocolate-cupcakes-5
    Chocolate Cupcakes
  • vanilla-cupcakes-6
    Vanilla Cupcakes
  • caramel-cupcakes-2
    Caramel Cupcakes
  • Nutella-Cupcake-8
    Nutella Cupcakes

2) Choose a filling (or two!)

To add a filling to your cupcake, simply use a teaspoon to scoop out a little of the sponge in the centre of the cupcake and then add your filling.

Instead of a spoon you can also push the round (wide) end of a large piping nozzle into the centre of the cupcake and then pull out the sponge in the centre to get an even round hole. If you plan on making a lot of filled cupcakes you can buy special corers.

  • Butterscotch-Sauce-11
    Butterscotch Sauce
  • Caramel sauce spoon
    Caramel Sauce
  • Chocolate-Sauce-11
    Chocolate Fudge Sauce
  • Chocolate-Custard-4
    Chocolate Custard
  • STOP! Don't buy ready made custard. It's really simple to make vanilla custard at home from simple everyday ingredients.
    Homemade Custard
  • Strawberry-Jam-8
    Strawberry Jam
  • Grapefruit Curd
  • Two jars of homemade lime curd.
    Lime Curd
  • Lemon Curd

3) Choose your icing

  • Oreo cupcakes topped with Oreo buttercream and Oreo buttercream in a piping bag.
    Oreo Buttercream
  • Cupcake topped with Biscoff buttercream.
    Biscoff Buttercream
  • Whiskey Buttercream
  • Lemon Buttercream
  • Cream Cheese Buttercream
  • vegan-vanilla-buttercream-1
    Vegan Vanilla Buttercream
  • Coconut buttercream being piped onto a coconut cupcake.
    Coconut Buttercream
  • brandy buttercream-3
    Brandy Buttercream
  • marzipan buttercream-2
    Marzipan Buttercream
  • gingerbread buttercream-2
    Gingerbread Buttercream
  • peppermint buttercream-2
    Peppermint Buttercream
  • chocolate orange cupcakes buttercream-3
    Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
  • Peanut-Buttercream-1
    Peanut Buttercream
  • Baileys-Buttercream-12
    Baileys Buttercream
  • Dark-Chocolate-Buttercream-4
    Dairy-Free Chocolate Buttercream
  • White-Chocolate-Buttercream-2
    White Chocolate Buttercream
  • A close up of a coffee cupcake topped with a swirl of coffee buttercream on a cooling rack with more cupcakes behind.
    Coffee Buttercream
  • caramel-cupcakes-3
    Caramel Buttercream
  • Buttercream-cakes-11
    Vanilla Buttercream
  • Chocolate-Buttercream-1
    Chocolate Buttercream
  • Nutella-Buttercream-8
    Nutella Buttercream

Some cupcake inspiration

If all this picking and choosing is too difficult then why not try one of these tried and tested combinations…

  • lemon-drizzle-cupcakes-1
    Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes
  • Snickers Cupcakes
  • Sugar-Free-Cupcakes-3
    Low Sugar Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
  • mince-pie-cupcakes-2
    Mince Pie Cupcakes with Brandy Buttercream
  • Raspberry Trifle Cupcakes
  • Millionaire's-Shortbread-Cupcakes-5
    Millionaires’ Cupcakes
  • Queen of Puddings Cupcakes
  • White-Russian-Cupcake-13
    White Russian Cupcakes
  • Easter-Nest-Cupcakes-5
    Easter Nest Cupcakes
  • fairy cakes
    Fairy Cakes
  • Caramel Macchiato Cupcakes Rack
    Caramel Macchiato Cupcakes
  • A fondant corgi cupcake with The Queen Corgi DVD cover in the background
    The Queen’s Corgi Cupcakes (and a Giveaway!)
Create your own perfect cupcake recipe. Choose your sponge, choose your filling, choose your icing and enjoy!
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  1. Anita Rees says

    January 08, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    You have so many brilliant ideas. Can’t wait to try a few.

    Reply
  2. [email protected] says

    March 13, 2017 at 8:58 am

    So many delicious ideas here! I think I would go for Nutella sponge and butterscotch sauce! 🙂 I have never tried butterscotch sauce but yours look really simple and yummy!

    Reply
    • Charlotte Oates says

      March 15, 2017 at 2:25 pm

      It is good, it’s very similar to my caramel sauce but with a slightly sweeter flavour. It’s easier to make too as you don’t have to get the sugar to melt by itself, you just mix it in.

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