Tea and Honey Cupcakes

These Tea and Honey Cupcakes are so adorable and super yummy! Using your favorite black tea and a box cake mix, they couldn’t be easier to make! The cute topper is made from store-bought meringue cookies and a lot of fun to create.

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You will need:

• 1 box white cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)
• 1 cup hot milk
• 4 black tea bags (your favorite kind, I use Fairmount Empress Tea, but I have also used Lipton Black Tea)
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 Tablespoons honey
• vanilla meringue cookies (I used Trader Joe’s)
• black and pink food coloring markers
• vanilla buttercream (store bought or you can get my recipe here

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1. Let the tea bags steep in the hot milk for at least 1/2 hour
2. Remove tea bags from milk and mix all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer for 2 minutes
3. Place paper cupcake liners in a muffin tin and fill 2/3 with batter.
4. Bake at 350 for 12-17 minutes
5. Let cool completely
6. Frost each cupcake with vanilla frosting
7. Make cute faces on the meringue cookies using the food markers
8. Top each cupcake with a meringue cookie

So easy and fun to make all of the cute faces!

These Tea and Honey Cupcakes are perfect for your Chinese New Year celebrations too!