Gluten-Free Butter Pecan Cupcakes

Butter pecan ice cream is (in my opinion) one of the best ice cream flavors! I love getting the chunks of pecans laced throughout the buttery ice cream base…so satisfying. So, we decided to create a cupcake inspired by this iconic ice cream flavor. These cupcakes have a brown butter cupcake base that has pecan pieces scattered within all while being topped with a seriously yummy brown butter marshmallow buttercream that’s as light as a cloud!

I have never seen/tasted a butter pecan cupcake before that actually tastes like buttery nutty goodness. It’s always a very lightly extract-flavored cupcake base that just tastes like vanilla. We wanted to avoid any sort of confusion with these cupcakes regarding the flavor and made sure that you will taste butter pecan in each and every bite, through and through! To achieve this punch of flavor though, you will have to put in a tiny bit of effort, but it is 100% worth it.