These Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes are the perfect summer treats!! The cupcake is lemon flavored, frosted with Strawberry Cream Cheese frosting and Lemon Cream Cheese frosting. These fresh cupcakes will certainly brighten anybody's day!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 40 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 14cupcakes
Calories 320kcal
Ingredients
Lemon Cupcakes
1 1/4cupsall-purpose flour
1 1/4teaspoonbaking powder
3/4teaspoonbaking soda
1/2teaspoonfine sea salt
2large eggs
3/4cupsgranulated sugar
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
1/2cupvegetable oil
1/4cuplemon juicefreshly squeezed
1/4cupmilkI used whole
Zest of 2 lemons
Strawberry and Lemonade Cream Cheese Frostings
8ozcream cheesesoftened
4ozunsalted buttersoftened
4cupspowdered sugarsifted
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
Zest of 1 lemon
1ozfreeze dried strawberries
Instructions
Lemon Cupcakes
Pre-heat oven to 350F.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a bowl, whisk eggs until slightly pale, about 1 minute.
Add sugar, whisk for another minute.
Add vanilla and oil. Whisk until combined.
Add half of the flour mixture. Stir with a spatula.
Proceed to add milk, lemon juice and lemon zest. Stir until combined.
Add the remaining flour.
Pour batter into cupcake pan, either greased with butter and then floured, or lined with cupcake papers.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating pans halfway.
Strawberry and Lemonade Cream cheese frostings
Pulse freeze dried strawberries in processor until they are a fine powder. Put through a sifter to filter out large particles. Set aside.
Cream cream cheese and butter for 3 minutes until smooth and fluffy.
Add sifted powdered sugar, mix on low until mixed in. Turn speed to medium and beat for a couple minutes. Add vanilla.
Split frosting in half into two bowls.
Add zest of lemon to one and add the freeze dried strawberries to the other.
Cream both separately until well combined.
Lay out a piece of plastic wrap on the counter. Spread the lemon cream cheese frosting. Right next to it, spread the strawberry frosting.
Roll the plastic wrap over itself and insert it into a piping bag fitted with the tip you will be using to pipe on the cupcakes.