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Buttermilk Cupcakes with Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting

After posting a couple of hot and spicy dishes last week, I thought it was time share a sweet treat with you. I could not think of a better sweet treat then cupcakes.  Who doesn’t love a cupcake? Especially one as cute as this. And believe me, these soft buttermilk cupcakes with sweet cherry cream cheese frosting are just as good as they look.

Ryan and I planned to have a few friends over to celebrate the 4th of July. On Friday, while I was looking over everything I planned to serve, the one thing I realized we were missing was dessert. I know some may consider it blasphemy to forget such a thing, but it simply slipped my mind. Regardless, there was no denying it, I was serving spicy pepper steak so I definitely needed something sweet. Sure, I could have picked up some cookies or cupcakes at the store but that would have taken all the fun out of it. Instead, I made these little gems and they were the perfect ending to a delightful 4th of July BBQ.

Single cupcake with a cherry on top.

Buttermilk Cupcakes with Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting

Moist buttermilk cupcakes with sweet cherry cream cheese frosting.
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 35 mins
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Servings

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup 1 stick butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting recipe follows
  • 12 cherries for garnish if desired

Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup 1 stick butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 2-3 cups powdered sugar sifted
  • 1/4 cup cherry preserves

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Line cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
  • Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, use a hand held mixer on medium speed to beat butter and granulated sugar together until creamy, about 3-4 minutes.
  • Beat in egg whites and vanilla until combined, about 1-2 minutes.
  • With the mixer on medium, beat in 1/3 of flour mixture. Once combined, beat in 1/3 of buttermilk. Continue alternating with remaining flour mixture and buttermilk.
  • Spoon thick batter into cupcake liners. Fill each liner 2/3 of the way full.
  • Bake for 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out with a few crumbs on it.
  • Allow to cool in cupcake tin for a couple of minutes. Transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
  • To make the frosting, use a hand held mixer on medium speed, cream together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in vanilla.
  • Gradually add in sugar. Beat until, thick but spreadable mixture. Fold in cherry preserves. Frosting will turn pink. Once combined, use to frost cupcakes.
  • Once the cupcakes are completely cool, frost with cherry cream cheese frosting. Note: I used a piping bag, but if you don't have one you can place frosting in a large resealable bag with the corner snipped.
  • Place 1 cherry on top of each cupcake.

Notes

Enjoy!
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Keywords: buttermilk, cherries, cherry, cherry preserves, Cream Cheese, cream cheese frosting, cup cakes, dessert, Food, frosting, Recipe

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  • Reply
    kim
    August 17, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    5 stars
    Aloha where did you find those cute little cupcake liners? kim

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    Cassandra
    May 28, 2019 at 9:43 am

    5 stars
    this not only disregarding my alergies, it also goes against all of my beliefs in the kitchen. I am distraught and ashamed that I took part in making this dessert. my apologies to those of you who didn’t care for it and my “What the Heck!?!” to those of you who did.

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    Cassandra
    May 28, 2019 at 9:18 am

    5 stars
    this sucks!

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    Mira L
    October 17, 2014 at 7:40 am

    The cupcakes look amazing and cherry butter cream is a great choice!

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    Shelley
    June 22, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    I made these and they were AMAZING. Everyone was very impressed and I may or may not have had more than one.Thanks for this recipe, love your site. :-)

    • Reply
      Deseree
      June 24, 2013 at 4:13 pm

      Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed them Shelley :)

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    Brianne
    August 1, 2012 at 10:02 am

    could you just use cherries instead of the preserves for the icing? Like maraschino cherries in the jar

    • Reply
      Deseree
      August 2, 2012 at 8:11 pm

      You could use marachino cherries but the frosting will probably be a bit sweeter.

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    Ciara
    June 18, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    I’ve used this frosting recipe a couple times now and I love it. It is really good on chocolate cupcakes, too. This morning I whipped some up and had a lot of leftover frosting after decorating some cupcakes. I made some biscuits and spread this on top. SOOOOOOOOO good.

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    Irene
    January 17, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Hi, these cupcakes look amazing, i wonder if i can substitute cherry jam for cherry preserves?

    • Reply
      Deseree
      January 17, 2012 at 10:16 pm

      Hi Irene, you can certainly sub jam for the preserves. Enjoy!

  • Reply
    Deseree
    July 5, 2011 at 8:18 am

    Hi Emily! I think you might need to increase it by half just to make sure that you have enough. Let me know how the cake turns out! :)

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    Emily
    July 4, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Hi! I am looking forward to making this in cake form. Do you think the amount of icing in this recipe will be enough for a 2 layer round cake (8-9″)?

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    hostmonster coupon
    March 3, 2011 at 8:50 am

    I’m glad that i found this amazing website.

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    Christine
    August 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Hi Des! I tried these with strawberry preserves and everyone loved them! Thanks!

    • Reply
      Deseree
      August 17, 2009 at 5:23 pm

      Hi Christine! Oooooh strawberry preserves. That sounds wonderful! I am glad everyone loved them. :)

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    finsmom
    July 9, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    How gorgeous are these!!! So cute!

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    Rachel Hope
    July 9, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    These look delicious! I would love to use this as an Inspiration piece for my Sunday Cupcake Inspiration Challenge…you can see a previous challenge here: http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2009/07/cupcake-inspiration-challenge-14.html

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    Katrina
    July 8, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Yum! And love the cute cupcake liner!

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    Renee
    July 7, 2009 at 7:46 am

    how cute it that?! :)

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    Kim - Easy French Food
    July 6, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    That’s just a darling photo.

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