Pink Lemonade Cupcakes Recipes

PINK LEMONADE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Mix together the the cake mix, oil called for on the box, buttermilk, and eggs.
• Line the tin, and fill the cups 3/4 of the way full. My mix made 18 cupcakes.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until the cupcakes are cooked through and spring back when lightly touched.
• Add the butter, room temperature pink lemonade concentrate, vanilla, and salt to the bowl of your stand mixer. (Note: If you add cold or frozen pink lemonade concentrate to the butter, it will cause the butter to solidify, which will lead to little clumps of butter in your icing. Not what we are after here.) Mix on medium speed with the whisk attachment until combined.
• Increase the speed to high and mix for 3-5 minutes until the mixture is light and fluffy, stopping to scrape down the sides a time or two.
• Add half of the powdered sugar. Mix on low until combined, and then increase speed to medium and whip for 1 to 2 minutes.
• The consistency of the icing is important if you are going to pile it high on a cupcake. It should be a medium consistency. If you mix the batch of icing with a metal teaspoon (the kind you use for dinner), the spoon should stand up straight in the middle of the bowl when it is in the icing. So, you should be able to stir it with a spoon by hand, but it should also be sturdy enough to hold the spoon up. If the icing is too thick, add a little more lemonade concentrate. If it needs to be a little thicker, add a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar, and whip to combine until it's sturdy enough.
• Place in an icing bag and pipe on cooled cupcakes with M1 tip.
• Garnish as desired.

PINK LEMONADE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350°F.
• Spray pan with vegetable pan spray; sprinkle 1 teaspoon colored sugar into each cupcake-space in the pan.
• Add water to pink lemonade mix to total amount of water called for on cake mix package directions.
• Follow cake mix package directions to prepare cake, adding chopped lemon peel.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan on rack; remove and cool completely before decorating.