Cinnamon Streusel Cupcake Recipe and a Hey Shuga! #Giveaway (#spon)

Last Updated on December 18, 2020 by Diane Hoffmaster

This Cinnamon Streusel Cupcake Recipe is sponsored by Hey Shuga! sugar cane syrup but all opinion expressed are my own.

My kids are huge fans of dessert and one of their all time favorite sweets is cupcakes.  What kid doesn’t like cupcakes, right?  Well, my big thing against cupcakes is the frosting.  Not only do I think most frosting is sickeningly sweet, but I am also horrible at the actual frosting of the cupcake.  No matter how hard I try, I end up with crumbs in it with bits of frosting just about everywhere.  So, when I stumbled across a cupcake recipe that had no frosting on it, I decided to play around with it and see how it turned out.  If you are looking for a cupcake recipe that is a little bit more ‘grown up’ than most, this might be a good option.

This cupcake recipe is incredibly easy to make and comes out very light and sweet.  It uses Hey Shuga! sugar cane syrup and brown sugar as the sweeteners, which along with the cinnamon give it a nice, dark color.  If you have never used sugar cane syrup, it is a great sweetener to keep in the house.  I use it in iced tea a lot because I hate trying to get granulated sugar to dissolve in a cold cup of tea.  Hey Shuga! needs no dissolving so it adds sweetness fast.  I also use it a lot in homemade oatmeal.   I hate buying those preflavored packets at the grocery store.  Some Hey Shuga! and some cinnamon and raisins and I have a nice, filling breakfast without the artificial garbage in the prepackaged ones.

Hey Shuga! is a natural syrup made using a  natural enzymatic process similar to the one that bees use to naturally produce honey. Their sugar cane is GMO free and the resulting syrup is all natural with no artificial anything. It’s gluten free and vegan.  You can also get Lil Shuga! which is a natural blend of Stevia leaf extract and cane syrup so it is still all natural but with fewer calories.  They are both certified organic.  You can replace a lot of the sugar in a baked good recipe with Hey Shuga! as long as you reduce the amount of liquid a little bit.  These cupcakes were delicious and if you want the chance to win some Hey Shuga! for yourself, keep reading for the giveaway!

Cinnamon Streusel Cupcake Recipe

Yield: 12

Cinnamon Streusel Cupcake Recipe

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Moist and flavorful cupcake that needs no frosting!

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cups light brown sugar, packed
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup cold butter, cut into cubes
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cups boiling water
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup cane syrup

Instructions

2. In a large mixing bow, place the flour, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Mix gently to blended.
3. Add the cold butter and work it into the dry ingredients until completely incorporated. You want the mixture to be slightly crumbly.
4. Remove 1/2 cup of this mixture to use as the streusel topping.
5. To the remaining mixture, add the vanilla, cane syrup and boiling water, beating until smooth.
6. Fill the muffin cups two-thirds full.
7. Sprinkle the reserved topping mixture over the cupcakes, spreading out evenly.
8. Bake the cupcakes for 20 – 25 minutes or until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
9. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

 

The Giveaway

Hey Shuga! would like to provide one of my readers with some of their organic cane syrup to try out for themselves.  Maybe you could come up with a creative cupcake recipe for yourself! This is a Giveaway Tools contest so follow the directions in the form to enter.

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