These delicious Cherry Coke Cupcakes are perfect for those Coca-Cola fans like myself. Made using deliciously sweet Cherry Coke in the batter, and topped off with Cherry Coke buttercream frosting and a sweet fresh cherry.

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Hey friends!

I’m sure by now y’all know that I’m a mashoosive Cherry Coke fan, right?

If not, have you been living under a rock? Or maybe you’re just new here. In which case, Welcome! *waves frantically* 🙂

I can’t even remember never drinking Coke, but I wouldn’t have been drinking it from my baby bottle now would I? In fact, that sounds pretty darn cool. 😆

I can’t even remember never drinking Coke, but I wouldn’t have been drinking it from my baby bottle now, would I? In fact, that sounds pretty darn cool. 😆 And I know that it’s bad but I do drink Coke every.single.day. and multiple times a day unless we’re out of it (and that is a rarity as I usually just stock up on multipacks in advance… *cough* addicted *cough*.

If we’re out of Coke, I get twitchy and nervous – joking, kinda. And your girl here doesn’t like coffee. I need my caffeine fix somehow. We all have our vices.

Water? Pfffttt! Screw you water, I want my Coca-Cola. It has water in it, right? Then we’re settled, Coke it is please. Make it a pint too, thank you.

I’ve been itching to make these Cherry Coke Cupcakes for a long time. The only excuse I have for not creating them is the fact that Coke disappears in this house so fast that it’s pretty much always in someone’s glass.

Not only that, but it’s only the giant-man baby and I that drink Coca-Cola. We go through so many bottles that I often wonder what the trash/recycling men must think of us!

We decided to make a night of it. It’s just too darn hot without A/C to be doing anything other than star-fishing in front of the fan on full whack. So that’s what we did. The kiddos and I decided to escape to the kitchen and bake, leaving the room in-between additions/mixing, as the oven was kicking out even more heat too – the kitchen itself was like an oven!

But let me tell you, [apart from the sweat-fest endurance prepping and baking] these cherry coke cupcakes were worth almost cooking myself in the hot kitchen, and every single bead of sweat.

Cherry Coke Cupcakes Recipe

These Cherry Coke cupcakes have cherry coke in the batter, making for a super moist flavourful cupcake. You can really taste the Cherry Coke flavour in these cupcakes.

In fact, to amp up the flavours, in addition to the already present Cherry Coke flavour in this recipe, I also added some Cola extract and some cherry flavouring to both the cupcakes AND the buttercream frosting.

Cherry Coke Frosting

The frosting also has cherry coca-cola in it to. *twitch, blink, twitch* 😆

They’re also topped off with a sweet delicious fresh cherry. Seriously, what more could you ask for? Coke that you can eat and drink at the same time. Now I definitely stand behind this!

And if you’re one of those peeps that likes peanuts in their Coke. Southern Americans, I’m looking at you… feel free to add some chopped peanuts onto the frosting. Or you could core the cupcakes and fill with peanut butter for that sweet and salty kick.

These Cherry Coke cupcakes are best served with an ice cold bottle of Coke. Yummers!