Transforming one of my favorite childhood desserts into a cupcake! Butterfinger Blizzard Cupcakes with the best frosting you will ever make! These disappear when I take them to parties and everyone begs for the recipe!
With Valentine’s Day coming up everything turns into red velvet recipes, but don’t forget about your man! Give him one of these and he will be yours forever 🙂
When I was little, my big brothers and I would record for a Christian CD. There were about 15 kids in the studio and we would go in, learn music and then put on these clunky headphones and sing over and over again until it was time to go home. The walls were all painted with strange designs and the director was goofy and made us laugh in between takes. And I was getting paid! I think I was about 7 so making money to sing was like to coolest thing in the world to me! After each session my mother would take us across the street to Dairy Queen where we got Blizzards. There is nothing better than the Butterfinger Blizzard.
I made these using a scratch recipe but I know a lot of you love and prefer cake mix recipes, and I aim to please you all! So here is a cake mix recipe too! (1 box devil’s food cake mix, 3 eggs, 1/2 C. oil, 1 C milk, 2/3 C. sour cream, 2 tsp. vanilla extract. Stir and bake for 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees!)
Butterfinger Blizzard Cupcakes
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE CAKE:
- For cake mix recipe see above
- 1 1/2 C. all-purpose flour
- 1 C. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 4 eggs at room temp
- 1 C. sugar
- 1 C. brown sugar packed
- 2/3 cup oil
- 1 C. buttermilk or milk
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- BUTTERFINGER BLIZZARD FROSTING:
- 6-8 fun-sized OR 2 regular Butterfingers
- 3/4 C. butter softened
- 2-3 C. powdered sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- EXTRA BUTTERFINGERS FOR DECORATION
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners, I used orange to really bring out the Reese's Pieces theme!
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2. In a medium bowl, combine cocoa flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
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3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk and vanilla extract.
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4. Pour half the dry ingredients into the wet and stir. Then add the rest of the dry ingredients and stir again. Don't over mix.
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5. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 18-22 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let cool.
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6. FROSTING: First you will need to finely crush your Butterfingers. I popped mine into my blendtec and that did the trick, but you can also use a food processor or put in baggie and whack with a rolling pin! Then use a sifter to separate the finely crushed pieces from the bigger pieces. (See NOTE) Beat butter in a stand mixer then add 2 cups powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Continue to add powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency and then fold in the finely crushed Butterfinger pieces.
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7. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and top with Butterfingers!
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NOTE: If you want to pipe on your frosting using a star tip like my photos, you will only want to use the finely crushed Butterfinger pieces and you can use the bigger pieces as "sprinkles" in the end. But if you will just be putting on the frosting using a knife then you can use ALL the Butterfinger pieces in the frosting!
I love Dairy Queen and blizzards as well!!! These would be fun to try 🙂 It seems like lately you have been doing more totally from scratch recipes which I love, but I also appreciate the cake mix version you included (some days just need to be a bit lazier but still delicious….) Your blog is one of my favorites!
Every time I make cupcakes from a scratch recipe they are somewhat dry. Can I add pudding to this recipe?
Oh good! Thanks for all your love and support Hanna! I love mixing it up in the kitchen and trying to give everyone what they want… the super easy cake mix recipes and scratch recipes for the more traditional bakers!
I would add 1/2 cup of sour cream to the batter! Let me know how that works out!
I made these this past weekend and added the extra sour cream. They were the best recipe I’ve made from scratch thus far. I made half of the batch with just the extra sour cream and half with the sour cream, pudding and an extra egg. My husband (the taste tester) prefers the pudding cupcake even though they were both moist. I did notice that the pudding made the cupcake stay moist much longer. Thank you for the tips! I absolutely Love your cupcakes.
I’m a college student and baking is kinda my way to de-stress (besides reading a good book) I actually made the cake mix version but substituted plain yogurt for the sour cream and the cupcakes came out awesome! I gave them away @ the local comic book shop as seeing if my mother came home early and saw a mini army of cupcakes she would freak… Needless to say someone *glares @younger sister* told on me and I’m banned from baking till the fall now. Still I’ll definitely be making this recipe again, I love it!
How many cupcakes does this typically make?
Looks delicious! Pardon the blatency here but you are very pretty! 😀 Love your site!
How can I make this into a cake instead of cupcakes?
You won’t need to change the recipe at all, just adjust the baking time for whatever size pan you’re using!
Thanks for sharing
The walls were all decorated with odd artwork, and the director made us giggle in between takes. And I was being compensated!
I tried to follow it but failed and I will try again.
I love this! I just discovered it Blizzard Cupcakes. Thanks for sharing all these details.