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Zingy Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes

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Show your sweethearts some love with these little babies! Zingy lemon cupcakes with sweet creamy raspberry frosting. They are perfect to take to a school party or deliver to a friendly neighbor. They could make anyone’s V Day a little bit brighter!

Ingredients

  • FOR THE CUPCAKES:
  • 3 cups All-purpose Flour
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
  • 2 whole Lemons, Zested
  • ¾ teaspoons Salt
  • 1 cup Butter, Cut Into Cubes
  • 4 whole Eggs
  • 1 cup Whole Milk
  • 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • Fresh Raspberries, To Garnish
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  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • 8 ounces, weight Cold Cream Cheese
  • ¾ cups Softened Butter
  • ½ cups Raspberry Jam
  • ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 drop Red Food Coloring
  • 3 cups Powdered Sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325°F.

Line cupcake pans with paper liners and spray the liners with non-stick spray. (It makes the liners peel off easier.)

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and salt in an electric mixer. Mix on low speed until combined.

Add the butter, mixing until just coated with flour.

In a bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, lemon juice and vanilla.

With the mixer on medium speed, add the wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down the sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not over-beat.

Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about two-thirds full.

Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Repeat process with remaining batter. 
This should make about 30 cupcakes.

For the raspberry cream frosting:

In the electric mixer, beat the cream cheese, butter and jam together until smooth. Add the vanilla, salt and food coloring; mix until an even-colored pink is reached.

Turn the mixer on low and add the powdered sugar a little at a time to avoid a sugar cloud. Then turn the mixer up until the frosting is smooth.

Place in the refrigerator until the cupcakes are cooled and ready to be frosted.

Once the cupcakes are completely cool, frost the cupcakes and garnish with fresh raspberries.

Makes 30 cupcakes.

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Janessa on 5.18.2011

I need to try these next!

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mmmmonica on 2.7.2011

They look delicious! Picture prefect!!

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Confoundedwoman on 5.6.2011

These were soooo good! I made them for teacher appreciation gifts and they looked so cute in a little cupcake box. I added a little more powdered sugar to the frosting because I like a little stiffer frosting. The FROSTING! Yum.

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kepereira79 on 4.19.2011

I was making these for my daughter’s birthday…first, the recipe did not specify whether the butter was to be cold or softened, and since it didn’t say softened, I put in cold butter. That could have been my own stupidity, though. Then the second mistake (which I take full blame for) was that I forgot the salt. So I was left with a greasy, flat-tasting cupcake. I didn’t get this recipe three mitts based on my own mistake (the missing salt) but because the butter part was unclear.

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lindseylooloo on 3.11.2011

So amazingly yummy!

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