Recipe of the Week: Piggylicious Bacon Cupcakes from Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

This week saw the return of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, one of the most beautiful times of the year to visit Walt Disney World. A few years ago Disney debuted food booths at the festival and one of the many foods they served was a Piggylicious Bacon Cupcake. I love bacon and cupcakes so this is a win for me. I recently found a recipe for the cupcakes so I thought I'd share with you all in this week's Recipe of the Week:

Piggylicious Bacon Cupcakes:

Ingrediants: 

Cupcakes-

One box yellow cake mix

Enough bacon fat to replace the canola oil (as called for on the box recipe)

Water (as called for on the box recipe)

Eggs (as called for on the box recipe)

6 oz. cooked crispy bacon

Maple Cream Cheese Icing-

8 oz. cream cheese

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 tsp. maple flavoring

16 oz. (about 4 cups) powdered sugar

1 small bag of pretzel twists

Instructions:
Cupcakes-
Put cake mix in a bowl.
Add bacon fat, water, and eggs.
Beat ingredients with a hand mixer according to the package directions.
Fold in the cooked bacon.
Add mixture to cupcake pan and bake according to package directions.

Maple Cream Cheese Icing-
In a mixing bowl with a paddle attachment, cream together the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy, about 8 minutes.
Add maple flavor until combined.
Add powdered sugar until well mixed.

Frost each cupcake with the frosting, and garnish with crushed pretzel twists.

Source: Magical Recipes