Lemonade Cupcakes

A Peek at the Fun: These lemonade cupcakes come in three fabulous flavors-strawberry lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and nice lemon. Grab the recipe and make these cupcakes for any Spring or Summer event.

Cupcakes are a favorite around here. They are so cute and taste so great and make any occasion that much better! These lemonade cupcakes are perfect for a Spring or Summer day. A little taste of lemonade on a cute little cupcake with a little straw on top!

We have three flavors-Raspberry Lemonade Cupcakes:

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes: (these are our favorites-how cute are they?!)

And a basic lemonade:

Which one do you want to make first? They’re all pretty great! Want the recipes?

Lemonade Cupcake Recipe:

Here are the 3 cupcake recipes and the buttercream is below them. We’ve also included some printable recipe cards just for fun! So you’ve got the list of ingredients for each and then the instructions down lower.

Raspberry Lemonade Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

1 white cake mix
1 large package of vanilla instant pudding
1 C vegetable oil
1/2 C raspberry juice from crushed raspberries
1 C sour cream
4 eggs
1/2 tsp rasberry flavoring (in the candy dept at the craft store)
Raspberries to top
Lemon extract for frosting

Here’s a printable recipe card for you!

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

1 lemon cake mix
1 large package of vanilla instant pudding
1 C vegetable oil
1/2 C water
1 C sour cream
4 eggs
Strawberries to top
Strawberry flavoring for frosting

Lemonade Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

1 lemon cake mix
1 large package of vanilla instant pudding
1 C vegetable oil
1/2 C water
1 C sour cream
4 eggs
Lemon extract for frosting
Lemons to top

Cupcake Instructions:

The basic instructions are the same for each of these three cupcakes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine cake mix, pudding mix, oil, water (or in raspberry ones, raspberry juice), sour cream, and eggs and beat till smooth.

Fill 24 cupcake liners with batter.

Bake for 18-20 minutes (for me it’s exactly 18 but ovens can vary). The raspberry ones might need a minute or two longer than the others.

Buttercream Frosting Recipe:

Ingredients:

3 sticks softened butter
4-6 C powdered sugar
1/4 C milk
Food coloring (pink for the strawberry ones, yellow for the lemon and raspberry ones)

Instructions:

Beat butter, powdered sugar, and milk. If it seems too thick, add a tiny bit more milk. Too runny? Add a little more powdered sugar.

For the raspberry and lemon flavors, add about 1-2 tsp of lemon extract to the frosting to flavor. For the strawberry add 2-3 tsp strawberry extract to taste.

Then add your food coloring.

If you want to swirl the colors on the lemonade ones, here’s how. (There’s a video to show you.)

To pipe it on, I simply put the frosting in a gallon size ziplock bag, snip off one corner and swirl it on. Then top with the fruit and the straw if you want.

And serve!

Have FUN making lemonade cupcakes!