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A little mouthful of summer that will make your taste buds feel like they took a lemonade vacation.
A little mouthful of summer that will make your taste buds feel like they took a lemonade vacation.
Lemon Cakes:1 box lemon cake mix
1 cup sour cream
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
½ cup milk
¾ cup oil
4 eggs
Zest of 1 lemon
1 small box lemon instant pudding mix
Cream Cheese Frosting:
8 oz cream cheese
½ cup butter
¼ cup sour cream
3 ½ cups sugar
1 tablespoon honey (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffins tins with 24 regular or 60 mini cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl, mix sour cream, lemon juice, milk and oil together. Add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated.
3. Add zest, cake mix, and pudding mix slowly while stirring.
4. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 12 (minis)-18 (regulars) minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
5. Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar slowly. Add sour cream, honey and vanilla and beat well. Add more powdered sugar if needed for desired taste or consistency.
6. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
I used the Bakery Crafts 2D tip.
Oh yum! I love lemon now that I am pregnant! I am following you I hope you will follow me back!
these are precious! I love the lemon with cream cheese frosting!
How cute! I love this and lemon with cream cheese frosting is a wonderful combination.
Will limes work?
If you can find lime cake mix…
Made these for a party. They were the smash hit! Told them about your website. Now everyone is making your fabulous goodies. Now I'm not so imfamous at work anymore for my cupcakes…. but that's ok. Spread the smiles 🙂
I just took these out of the oven and they are amazing:) …and I havent even put the icing on them yet!
These sound delicious! I don’t have any cream cheese though. Any suggestions for another frosting? I was thinking just a lemon buttercream but it might be too much lemon going on? Help!
I used a limoncello cream cheese buttercream frosting and it was phenomenal… I adapted the frosting from this recipe.. I always reduce the amount of sugar because I can’t stand overly sweet frosting..
http://www.browneyedbaker.com/lemon-limoncello-cupcakes/?m
I really appreciate this post. I have been looking all over for this! Thank goodness I found it on Bing. You’ve made my day! Thank you again!
Hi, Lizzy! My name is Esther–first-time commenter and newcomer to the food blogging world! I made these cupcakes yesterday for a Memorial Day cookout and they were a hit! Thanks for the recipe!
http://foodieandfabulous.blogspot.com/2013/05/lemon-cupcakes-with-browned-butter.html#more
Since the icing is cream cheese, does it need to be refrigerated?
I plan on serving the next day after preparing..thanks.
Leaving it out for 24 hours is fine.
where can I find Lemon cake mix?
Most grocery stores have it! But you can also just use white cake mix and add lemon zest and lemon juice!
I followed directions and baked in reg muffin cups for 20 min. Took them out and they fell!
Toothpick came out clean. Don’t know what happened! Cooked on 2nd rack in oven. Guess I’ll try again, what do you think happened?.
I have the same problem… Only happens when I do a lemon cake recipe.. I added some extra flour to the batter and that helped, but I was just adjusting between batches so I was doing it on the fly… I’m thinking I had too much moisture, and since I tripled the recipe maybe that had something to do with it… Cake still tasted great and after frosting them no one was the wtriple but it’s rather frustrating that I can’t seem to get lemon cake right..
Are you really using plain sugar in the frosting, or is that just a typo?
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When you say a small box of pudding mix does that mean all four packets in the box or just one packet?