Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with Cinnamon-Rum Buttercream Frosting

If you have ever questioned the importance of Twitter in your life, here is where you will be convinced that it is a god-send.  Twitter introduced me to Snickerdoodle Cupcakes.  ‘Nuff said.  End of Story.  Twitter is now second (ok, third) only to Real Butter and Mexican Vanilla on my Scale Of Cooking Dieties.  Snickerdoodle Cupcakes, people.  Amazing.  So, here’s the story: I follow KathyDaltonSLC on Twitter, she tweeted about Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with a link and I immediately decided that I would be making them.  I even re-planned a party to make cupcakes the main dish in order to have an excuse to make them.  (As if anyone needs an excuse to make cupcakes, really.  What am I thinking?)  At any rate, the party was (re)planned, the cupcakes were made, and the party–and cupcakes–were a huge success.  I highly recommend you do the same.

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
Recipe from DanishMama

Pre-heat oven to 350′

1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups cake flour (I used regular flour)
1 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups buttermilk

Cinnamon Sugar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until fluffy, add eggs, one at a time and mix well after each egg.  Add vanilla.  Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk, mixing well after each addition, beginning and ending   with flour mixture.  Line cupcake tin with papers, fill each 2/3 full of batter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.  Bake 20 minutes, remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes in pan before removing cupcakes to a wire rack.

Cinnamon-Rum Buttercream Frosting
Recipe adapted from DanishMama

1 cup butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
2-3 tablespoons whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Cream butter and 1 cup of sugar until fluffy, add remaining sugar slowly, mixing well.  Add rest of ingredients and beat until fluffy and delicious–about 3 minutes. When cupcakes are completely cooled, generously spread with frosting and prepare yourself for the onslaught of cupcake-adoring-fiends who are bound to completely devour the entire batch of Snickerdoodle Cupcakes.

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