Acorn Snickerdoodle Cupcakes With Candy Acorns

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These Snickerdoodle Cupcakes are so easy to make and perfect for the fall!  Now your favorite cookie flavor is featured in these yummy Snickerdoodle cupcakes. With this easy acorn cookie tutorial on top, they are perfect for Thanksgiving. 

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This week has been so much fun!  We are finishing up our fall break at school and Jonah and I have been hanging out together all week.  The other day we visited the Indianapolis Children’s Museum and came home and baked some cupcakes.  To celebrate fall, I wanted to make them festive and fun so I created some candy acorns that I saw on Pinterest a long time ago.

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

Everyone in our house absolutely loves Snickerdoodles cookies.  With that yummy cinnamon flavor, I thought they would be a lot of fun to make into Snickerdoodle cupcakes.

It was pretty simple to do.  It all starts with the cake.  I purchased a simple yellow cake mix  and doctored it up to make the cupcakes taste like Snickerdoodle cookies.  Busy moms need shortcuts, and I seem to be the queen of finding them!  All I did was add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract to the batter.  This snickerdoodle cake also works well for any cinnamon cake recipe you may want to use to make something else.

The Snickerdoodle cupcakes turned out smelling like fall!

How to Make Candy Acorns

My son took a nap while the cupcake were cooling, so I made a small batch of royal icing and put together the acorns.

Constructing the acorns is a very simple 3 step process.  First, apply royal icing to the bottom of a Hershey’s Kiss.  Next, top it with a mini wafer.  Finally, dip a mini chocolate chip into the royal icing and place on top of the wafer.

There you have it!  Easy fall acorns to decorate your cakes and cupcakes.

As soon as the cupcakes were cool, I frosted and sprinkled the top.  I don’t like a lot of frosting on my cupcakes so there was enough in that little tub of frosting to cover all 24 of my cupcakes.  If you are one who like a lot of frosting, you may want to get two containers.

The finished product!  My little guy woke up and took a taste test!

He loved them!  I hope you enjoy these snickerdoodle cupcakes this Fall!  They are perfect for your holiday party.