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    Home » Dessert » Cupcakes

    Lemon Cupcakes & Lemon Cream Frosting

    Published: Jun 25, 2014 · by Elizabeth Waterson · This post may contain affiliate links, which may pay me a small commission for my referral at no extra cost to you! Thank you for supporting Confessions of a Baking Queen!

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    Lemon Cupcakes & Lemon Cream Frosting unwrapped and on a white and blue cake plate
    Lemon Cupcakes & Lemon Cream Frosting unwrapped and a bite missing from the cupcake on a white background

    Lemon Cupcakes & Lemon Cream Frosting make a delightful summer cake. Easy Lemon Cake mix is topped with a light lemony cream cheese frosting finished with fresh berries.  Lately I have been on to the whole lemon kick more than my normal chocolate kick. In fact it's been quite a while. Something about lemon it is just so refreshing. Lemon frosting are my favorite. This frosting is a cream cheese whipped cream infused with fresh lemon zest & juice. It is DIVINE. As in I want to use it as my only frosting ever. I absolutely hate store-bought cake frosting. You know those cakes/cupcakes you get from the grocery store with that nasty over the top sweet, fake tasting frosting? UGH I hate it. 

    Well the day before I made these someone bought a cake and I felt obliged to at least take a bite even though I knew it would be dreadful. Needless to say, I couldn't get that awful taste out of my mouth so I HAD to make my own frosting to cancel it out.

    a bunch of Lemon Cream Cupcakes on a white wood surface

    It's kind of like my constant battle between sweet and salty, I get home from work have some cheese and crackers overdo it a bit so I need a slice of chocolate but then I overdo it on the chocolate so I need the cheese again... it is a vicious cycle. And by vicious, I mean the tastiest best cycle ever!

    You could totally make from scratch lemon cupcakes but I felt lazy and used a box and I am so glad I did. The cupcakes were super lemony and that lemon frosting...wow!

    ★★★★★ Please let me know if you make this recipe by leaving a star rating and comment below!

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    Lemon Cupcakes w/ Lemon Cream Frosting

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    Lemon Cupcakes & Lemon Cream Frosting make a delightful summer cake. Easy Lemon Cake mix is topped with a light lemony cream cheese frosting finished with fresh berries.

    • Total Time: 48 minutes
    • Yield: 28 Cupcakes 1x

    Ingredients

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    Lemon Cupcakes

    • 1 box Lemon Cake Mix
    • 1 small box Lemon Pudding Mix
    • ½ cup lemon juice
    • ½ cup oil
    • 1 cup sour cream/ greek yogurt
    • 3 large eggs, at room temperature

    Lemon Cream Frosting

    • 16oz Cream Cheese, at room temp.
    • 1 scant cup powdered sugar
    • 3 tbsp lemon juice, fresh squeezed
    • 1 tsp lemon zest
    • 3 cups heavy whipping cream

    Instructions

    Lemon Cupcakes

    1. Preheat oven to 350F and line a cupcake tin with liners, set aside.
    2. In a large bowl/bowl of electric mixer combine cake mix, pudding mix, lemon juice, oil, sour cream and eggs until no lumps or flour streaks remain.
    3. Fill liners ⅔ full with batter and bake for 15-18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes then place cupcakes on wire rack to cool completely.

    Lemon Frosting

    1. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment beat cream cheese for two minutes. Add in powdered sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest and mix until fully combined. With mixer on slowly whisk in heavy whipping cream mix until nice and fluffy. Pipe on to cupcakes and garnish with fresh berries. Store in fridge.

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    • Author: Confessions of a Baking Queen
    • Prep Time: 30 minutes
    • Cook Time: 18 minutes
    • Category: Dessert
    • Method: Baking
    • Cuisine: American

    Keywords: lemon cupcakes, lemon frosting, cupcake recipe, mini cake, doctored up cake mix,

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    1. Ashley says

      June 25, 2014 at 5:22 pm

      Ha! I love your cheese/cracker and then homemade dessert cycle. It sounds like a very very good one! And these cupcakes look delicious!

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    2. Jess @ whatjessicabakednext says

      June 26, 2014 at 4:23 am

      These cupcakes look amazing! Love anything lemony in the summer- definitely got to try these out! 🙂

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