Cupcakes Recipes for Your Next Lunch

Easy Homemade Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Use yellow cake mix, water, vegetable oil, eggs, creamy peanut butter, chocolate frosting, creamy peanut butter, and chopped peanuts to make this recipe.

Easy Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Ingredients: Swiss Chocolate Cake Mix, Creamy Home-Style Vanilla Frosting, creamy peanut butter, and miniature peanut butter cup candies.

Easy Homemade PB & J Cupcakes
Ingredients: Cupcakes: box yellow cake mix, water, creamy peanut butter, vegetable oil, and eggs. PB & J Frosting: whipped vanilla frosting, creamy peanut butter, and grape jelly.

Black & White Cupcakes
Ingredients: sugar, all-purpose flour, Hershey’s Cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, buttermilk or sour milk*, eggs, boiling water, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, and Vanilla Frosting or "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting.

Double Chocolate Cocoa Cupcakes
Ingredients: Hershey's Mini Chips Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, shortening, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, Hershey's Cocoa, baking soda, salt, milk, Powdered sugar, and Chocolate Drizzle.

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
Ingredients: all-purpose flour, sugar, Hershey's Cocoa or Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, container (8 ounces) plain low fat yogurt, mashed ripe banana, canola oil or vegetable oil, fat-free milk, vanilla extract, egg whites, and White Glaze.

Texas Applesauce Cupcakes
Ingredients: butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, applesauce, and currants.

Strawberry Cupcakes
Ingredients: box (1 pound 2.25 ounces) devil's food cake mix with pudding, water, oil, eggs, marshmallow crème (from 7 ounces jar), whipping (heavy) cream, fresh strawberries, and fresh blueberries.

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