Do you love fancy coffee drinks? Then, you’ll love these Dulce de Leche Cappuccino Cupcakes made with instant coffee and Coffeemate!
These cupcakes are simple to make using a box cake mix like yellow cake mix or white cake mix.
Then, to top them off, I whipped up a delightful dulce de leche coffee buttercream frosting. It reminds me of eating coffee ice cream. It’s so good, you’d probably enjoy just eating it by the spoonful!
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Ingredients needed to make these treats!
- 1 box cake mix (yellow or white)
- eggs
- Coffee-mate Extra Sweet & Cream
- water
- instant coffee
- dulce de leche
- salted butter
- powdered sugar
How do you make the Cupcakes?
Preheat oven to 350. Prepare cupcake papers in muffin tins.
Heat 1/2 cup of water for 1 minute in the microwave. Then, mix in 2 tbs of instant coffee (or 2 packets) and set aside.
In the mixing bowl add white cake mix, 3 eggs, coffee creamer, dulce de leche, and coffee. Mix until just combined on medium low.
Then, mix on medium-high for 2 minutes.
Fill each cupcake paper 2/3 full.
Bake for 13-15 minutes, until done.
Remove pans and let cool.
Allow to cool completely before frosting.
How do you make the Dulce de Leche Coffee Buttercream Frosting?
Add butter to mixing bowl and beat on medium.
Heat 1/3 cup of Coffee-mate Extra Sweet & Creamy for 1 minute. Add instant coffee and dulce de leche to the Coffee-mate.
Stir Coffee-mate until well mixed. Then, add to the butter and continue beating.
Add 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat on medium-high. Keep scraping down the sides of the bowl every minute or so.
Gradually add 1 to 2 more cups of powdered sugar to get the right consistency.
Once consistency is achieved, beat for an additional 4-5 minutes.
Frost cupcakes.
Finish the cupcakes off with some caramel or dulce de leche syrup around the frosting.
More Dulce de Leche Recipes
- How to make Dulce de Leche Stuffed Fudge Cookie Bars
- Dulce de Leche Pumpkin Pie
- Dulce de Leche coffee
- Cream Cheese Dulce de Leche Apple Pie
- Dulce de Leche Peach Pie For Your Sweetie Pie
- Chocolate Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Stuffed Cupcakes
More Cupcake Recipes
- Sugar Plum Cupcakes
- Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie Cupcakes
- Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes
- How to make Rainbow Cupcakes
- How to make S’mores Cupcakes
- How to make Bubblegum Cupcakes
Dulce de Leche Cappuccino Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 box cake mix (white or yellow)
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups of Coffee-mate Extra Sweet & Creamy
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbs (or 2 packets) of instant coffee
- 1/3 cup of dulce de leche
Frosting
- 1/2 cup of salted butter (1 stick)
- 3-4 cups of powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup of Coffee-mate Extra Sweet & Creamy
- 1 tbs (or 1 packet) of instant coffee
- 1-2 tbs of dulce de leche
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350. Prepare cupcake papers in muffin tins.
- Heat 1/2 cup of water for 1 minute in the microwave. Then, mix in 2 tbs of instant coffee (or 2 packets) and set aside.
- In the mixing bowl add white cake mix, 3 eggs, coffee creamer, dulce de leche, and coffee. Mix until just combined on medium low.
- Then, mix on medium-high for 2 minutes.
- Fill each cupcake paper 2/3 full.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes, until done.
- Remove pans and let cool.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
- Add butter to mixing bowl and beat on medium.
- Heat 1/3 cup of Coffee-mate Extra Sweet & Creamy for 1 minute. Add instant coffee and dulce de leche to the Coffee-mate.
- Stir Coffee-mate until well mixed. Then, add to the butter and continue beating.
- Add 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat on medium-high. Keep scraping down the sides of the bowl every minute or so.
- Gradually add 1 to 2 more cups of powdered sugar to get the right consistency.
- Once consistency is achieved, beat for an additional 4-5 minutes.
- Frost cupcakes.
- Finish the cupcakes off with some caramel or dulce de leche syrup around the frosting.
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13 comments
Pinned and stumbled! Amazing photography!!!
Oh wow. yum. Great photography too! This is certainly something for cheat moment. I’m a huge dulce de leche freak!
Oh yum! They look delicious and great pictures!
Very yummy looking cupcakes and I love the color of the tray – I will pin this on my Favorite Blogger board and will use as cover. Really nice shots.
OMG! These have made my mouth water, sharing!
Oh my gosh, these look and sound delicious!! I’m going to have to try them!!
Now I want a cupcake. Pinned for when there isn’t tons of leftover cake in the house to tempt me even more.
These look so delicious! Pinned these to try making one day!
Oh my goodness that those cupcakes look really good and somehow I am already imagining the taste and I haven’t had it before. LOL! It looks so good. Not a big coffee drinker either, but my husband is. THank you for sharing!
I love Coffeemate Cappaccino I buy it all the time and never knew there were recipies like this!! I gotta try it!
Sooooooo yummy! I must try these and soon.
That platter is darling. Do you remember where you found it/bought it?
Kohl’s! It’s from their “Food Network” line.