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Corn on the Cob Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Frosting

July 8, 2011 5 Comments

Corn on the Cob Cupcakes are adorable little cupcakes that you can make.  These special cupcakes look just adorable, and thankfully you do not need to an expert decorator to make these.  These are yellow mini cupcakes, a creamy vanilla bean icing, topped with jelly beans.

cupcakes that look like corn on the cob

I got my inspiration of these cupcakes from a Woman’s Day magazine cover. I never opened the magazine, but I was wanting to bring a little dessert to a party. My friends typically cook very well, so you want to bring something that that makes up just a bite or two. I used the mini cupcake cups for these, so these cupcakes were just about two bites of food. I also used Jelly Belly brand jelly beans, I used the Hot Buttered Pop Corn flavor, so these weren’t overly sweet.

Corn on the Cob Cupcakes

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  • Recipe Type: Dessert
  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
  • Serves: 1
Corn on the Cob Cupcakes

Enjoy these corn on the cob looking cupcakes.

Ingredients

  • 1 18 ounce box yellow cake mix
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 8 ounce package of cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
  • 8 ounces jelly beans (Jelly Belly brand were used, Hot Buttered Popcorn, and French Vanilla beans were used)

Instructions

Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Follow package directions if making regular sized cupcakes. Mini cupcakes take 12 to 15 minutes to bake. Allow cupcakes to cool completely. The advantage of using the mini cupcakes is that they take much less time to cool.

 

Prepare icing by creaming together the 8 ounces of cream cheese and the 4 ounces of butter together. When nice and creamy add 1 cup of powdered sugar, and then cream the mixture again. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste, add remaining 1 cup of powdered sugar. Spread frosting on cupcakes, you can be generous with the frosting.

 

Decorate the cupcakes with the jelly beans by alternating the yellow and the white jelly beans. I used mostly yellow jelly beans so it would look like sweet corn.

Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Follow package directions if making regular sized cupcakes. Mini cupcakes take 12 to 15 minutes to bake. Allow cupcakes to cool completely. The advantage of using the mini cupcakes is that they take much less time to cool.

Prepare icing by creaming together the 8 ounces of cream cheese and the 4 ounces of butter together. When nice and creamy add 1 cup of powdered sugar, and then cream the mixture again. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste, add remaining 1 cup of powdered sugar. Spread frosting on cupcakes, you can be generous with the frosting.

Decorate the cupcakes with the jelly beans by alternating the yellow and the white jelly beans. I used mostly yellow jelly beans so it would look like sweet corn.

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    • Anonymous

      I should hang my head in shame now ;) Those are lovely.

  • Lauralanier

    you can also lineup three or four of them on some construction paper leaves to make it look more live an ear of corn..additional presentation tips include-putting the corn holders into the ends, getting a pack of star burst and smuching the yellow star burst a lttlte so it looks melted and placing it on one of the middle cupcakes on the line to look like melted butter ,coloring alittle bit of sugar black and sprkleiton the butter pat or the cornitself as pepper and using yellow( lemon) vanilla and popcorn , to really emphasize the tricolor corn..really easy and impressive

  • Paula

    where did you find the Hot Buttered Popcorn, jelly beans?

    • http://www.copykat.com Stephanie

      I found them at my regular grocery store. They carry the Jelly Belly brand of jelly beans there.

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