Looking for a delicious lemon cupcakes recipe? This lemon cupcake recipe is packed with lemon flavor. It is moist and delicious and the perfect lemon cupcake recipe.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Dessert
Keyword lemon cupcake recipe
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 22 minutesminutes
Total Time 32 minutesminutes
Servings 30cupcakes
Calories 223548kcal
Ingredients
½c.frozen lemonade concentratethawed
18 ¼oz.white cake mix
8oz.sour cream
3oz.cream cheese softened
3eggsbeaten
2T.lemon zest
8oz.pkg. cream cheese softened
½c.butter softened
2t.vanilla extract
16oz.powdered sugar
lemon dropsOptional garnish:
Instructions
Combine lemonade concentrate, cake mix, sour cream, 3 oz. of cream cheese, eggs and lemon zest in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer at low speed for 3 minutes.
Fill paper-lined muffin cups ⅔ full.
Bake at 350° for 22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; place on wire racks to cool completely.
For the frosting, beat together the 8 oz. package of cream cheese and butter until smooth. Blend in vanilla.
Gradually beat in powdered sugar.
Pipe frosting on cooled cupcakes; garnish with crushed lemon drops (optional).