Description
Soft and tangy pink lemonade cupcakes topped with creamy citrus buttercream frosting.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup buttermilk or sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 ½ sticks butter
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 6 tablespoons pink lemonade concentrate
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 cups powdered sugar
- milk or half and half
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line cupcake pan.
- Mix dry ingredients together.
- Add wet ingredients and beat until smooth.
- Divide batter into cupcake liners.
- Bake for 20-24 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Beat butter and cream cheese.
- Add lemonade concentrate and vanilla.
- Mix in powdered sugar.
- Beat until fluffy.
- Adjust consistency with milk if needed.
- Frost cupcakes and serve.
Notes
- Do not overmix batter.
- Cool cupcakes before frosting.
- Adjust frosting consistency carefully.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 28
- Sodium: 180
- Fat: 16
- Saturated Fat: 10
- Unsaturated Fat: 5
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 40
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3
- Cholesterol: 55