Due to popular demand and my recent obsession with RumChata, I decided to make RumChata cupcakes. Also, I just happened to have all of the ingredients and a night free to make them. Perfect. So everyone I saw over the weekend got a cupcake. I brought them to the Association House fundraiser and all my friends loved them. I mean, they weren’t even that drunk and they were declaring them to be the best cupcake they ever had! Paul Baker thought they tasted kind of like oatmeal cookies. I think it’s the vanilla and cinnamon flavors coming through. Others say they taste like cinnamon toast crunch. So. Yes, definitely make these!
RumChata Cupcakes
From: love. life. & creative things.
Note from rachelleb: This recipe made 18 cupcakes for me. I halved the frosting recipe and it was just enough.
1/2 cup butter (1 stick, at room temperature)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup RumChata
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
4 egg whites
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Combine sugar & butter and beat until fluffy
- Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, & cinnamon, set aside
- Mix the RumChata & vanilla together, set aside
- Alternating, add in the flour mixture and RumChata mixture in to the butter and sugar.
- Start and end with the flour mixture.
- In a clean mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form (this will be easiest in an electric mixer)
- Fold egg whites in to the batter – do not do this in an electric mixer, use a spatula
- Fill cupcake liners
- Bake for 20 minutes
RumChata Cream Cheese Frosting
12 ounces of cream cheese (1 1/2 packages, at room temperature)
1/2 cup of butter (1 stick, at room temperature)
1/2 tsp of vanilla
5 tbsp of RumChata
1 package of confectioners’ sugar (2 lb. bag)
- Combine butter and cream cheese until smooth
- Add vanilla
- Slowly add confectioners’ sugar
- Mix in RumChata
- Frost the cupcakes
Thanks for posting! I cannot wait to make (and devour) these cupcakes!
Thanks for the recipe! They look and smell great. Can’t wait until they cool so I can frost and eat 🙂
Made this recipe…. OMG, they were amazing!!! TYTYTY!! Now to have my mom ship more to me in Pennsy!
these were easy to make and taste fantastic! thank you!
Oh my God! I live in Mexico, in an area where we drink Coco Horchata all the time! So, I made these for my friend’s farewell, all my colleagues and friends from Mexico and the United States were besides themselves about these. They were DELICIOUS!! I made them in minis, baked for 12-14 minutes.