The Cupcake Project: Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes Homemade Cupcake Recipe
These sweet little Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes are what we’ve baked up for week 4 of The Cupcake Project. I have to say, they are the prettiest homemade cupcake recipe I have ever made! For real! Light and fluffy yellow lemon cupcake with smooth, creamy pink lemonade frosting! Melt in your mouth yum! We decorated them with opaque pearls and that sparkly, glittery sprinkles… topped them with lemon drop candies. Heaven in your mouth my friends! Now, normally, I will taste test the frosting, maybe eat one for dessert and then let the kids go wild on the rest. I ate 3 All.By.Myself!!! Don’t tell anyone though. For the newbies here, I’m baking my way through tan amazing cookbook written by Lizzy Early, I picked it up at Sam’s Club for $12 in a moment of weakness. Best buy ever! The strawberry pink lemonade cupcakes are by far my favorite. I have 76 homemade cupcake recipes to go though still, so we’ll see if that changes. But, it’s Summer here in Vegas baby and these are ‘da bomb!
Ok, let’s cut to the chase! Ready to get your homemade cupcake baking on with me?
Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 Box Lemon Cake Mix (I used Betty Crocker)
- 4 Egg Whites
- 1/3 Cup Oil
- 3/4 Cup Milk
- 1 Cup Plain Yogurt
- 1/4 Cup Lemon Juice
- 2 TBSP Lemon Zest
- 1 Cup Butter (softened)
- 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
- 4 TBSP Strawberry Puree
- 4-5 Cups Powdered Sugar
- Cute Decorations!
Instructions
Let's start by preheating your oven to 350*. Find some super cute liners (I use Wilton Color Cups as they hold their color and never turn brown) and line your cupcake pans.
In small bowl, sift cake mix and set aside.
In large mixing bowl, mix egg whites, oil, milk, lemon juice, yogurt and lemon zest on low speed until smooth.
Slowly add your cake mix to the medium bowl and blend until it's smooth and lump free. Remember, lumps are yucky!
As I always say, use a food scoop to pour batter into cupcake liners. It makes it way less messy and no guessing to get them filled the right amount. Fill your liners 3/4 full. Depending on your oven, bake for 15-20 minutes. We were right about to the 17 mark. Use the old 'toothpick comes out clean' trick to test! Now, set those beauties aside on cooling rack. And hey! While they are cooling off, let's make some frosting!
In large mixing bowl, beat the butter for about 2 minutes. Add vanilla extract.Continue to beat until smooth. Don't forget to scrape the sides of the bowl! Now slowly start to add your powdered sugar until it's a slightly thicker consistency than normal.
Blend in strawberry puree (fresh strawberries run through food processor to soup-like consistency) If frosting is too thin, add a tad more powdered sugar a little at a time. Now, go on! Give it a little lick. Tastes heavenly, right??!
Once your pretty, yellow yummy Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes are cooled completely you're ready to decorate! BEST homemade cupcake recipe ever!!
https://www.sassygirlz.net/2013/06/04/cupcake-project-strawberry-pink-lemonade-cupcakes-homemade-cupcake-recipe/After 4 weeks now of homemade cupcake recipes, I think the decorating skills are improving! And, no one is complaining about what’s for dessert. That’s for sure! We brought some of these Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes to our neighbors and the mom told me they were gone in about 2 minutes. It’s kinda nice sharing like that!
If you want to check out what we’ve done with The Cupcake Project so far…
Week 1, Our Chocolate Malt Homemade Cupcakes! Just like an old fashioned soda fountain drink!
Week 2, we made Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes. Oy… Remember those Ice Cream bars?? THAT!!
For Week 3, we made Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes! All the Summer fun, no melty mess! And super cute for Summer BBQ’s and parties!
Week 5 fell on the 4th of July, so naturally we threw down some 4th of July Cupcakes.
Week 6 we whipped up some sweet and tart Lemon Lime Cupcakes. Perfect for Spring and Summer dessert baking!
Week 7 we whipped up some sweet and tart Lemon Lime Cupcakes. Perfect for Spring and Summer dessert baking!
Week 8 was Orange White Chocolate Cupcakes! Add some black sprinkles and you have another Halloween Dessert idea!
Week 9 was the Uh.Maze.Ing Caramel Apple Cupcakes that have literally taken off on Pinterest!
Week 10 was the Orange Cranberry Cupcakes! Sweet and tart perfection!
Week 11 were the festive and lucky Andes Mint Chocolate cupcakes! Oh yeah! I went there!
And, week 12 were the Toasted Coconut Cupcakes. Super delicious, just sayin’…
Week 13 we went and threw down some Milky Way Caramel and Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes.Yeah, totes did it up good too!
Week 14 were the unbelievably delish Dr. Pepper and Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes. I found heaven in those babies!
So, what do you think? Up for some Strawberry Pink Lemonade Cupcakes?
Go get your homemade cupcake recipe on! Let me know how they turn out!!
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This looks SO yummy! PS When I come to your house for a frosting lesson?
Great job with this recipe. I love it!
Oh, I’m such a sucker for cupcakes! These look so good, I’ll have to swipe the recipe. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ooo these are so cute! I bet they are super yummy, too.
Oh wow, these look amazing! Must make!
You’re not nice! Those look AMAZING! Well-done.
Oh yum! Those look so delicious and would be so fun for summer. I pinned this recipe so I can try it sometime.
Those are GORGEOUS!!! Great job!
looks gorgeous, lady!! i really want a cupcake now 🙁
Looks so good! I wish I can make those in the future!
Lemon cupcakes are my favorite and these look amazing!
Oh gosh – I wish I had 1 (or 15) of these right now. They look SO good!
Oh what a great idea! Fun to do with the kids and great to do an act of kindness for others. I’ll have to go check Sam’s for the cookbook. I want it!
Those strawberry pink lemonade cupcakes looks and sounds amazing! Perfect for summer picnics and parties.
Your recipes always look so good! I think I could an entire batch of these.
I love these – they are my favorite of the 4 week series thus far. Yummy strawberry and lemonade. I was leery of the lemon initially but I am gonna go for these. I will let you know how mine come out.
OMG these looks so yummy! I’m adding some ingredients to my shopping list now 🙂
I am in absolute love with these cupcakes! And I haven’t even tasted them yet! But just the ingredients and pictures I know they are divine!!! I’m picking up the ingredients this weekend!
I’m stunned. Mine would never turn out looking like that. Where do you get the cute wrappers and opaque pearls?
Those are so cute!!
those look so good! I am loving your cupcake project posts…they are so much prettier than anything I could make!
These look and sound delicious, how can you go wrong with lemon and strawberry, two of my favourite flavours. {PS you did such a wonderful job decorating them, they look amazing!}
o my goodness those sound and look amazing!
Wow, these look so good! I’m off to pin it immediately.
These look amazing! We have a cookout for my son’s basketball team this weekend and I think I”m going to make this to take! They are perfect summer cookout flavors!
I would have to give these a 4/10. When i went to bake them, it was as if my oven refused to bake them by breaking down. Once I finally got the oven fixed, the cupcakes were terrible. Terrible recipe. Terrible website.
Your oven broke and my recipe is awful…? Sounds like you need a new oven. Also, considering the web address you listed as being connected to your name doesn’t exist, I’m going to assume you are a troll/spammer. However, I’m going to leave your comment as it stands. Because really. Who can’t bake cupcakes from a box recipe? You look silly…
They look so scrumptious!
Thank you so much for sharing this at Wednesday Extravaganza – can’t wait to see what you share next week 🙂
Just want to say you are AWESOME!!!! Absolutely amazing!!! I love your website and love LOVE that you post pictures with your recipes!!! It makes everyones life so much easier when making/following recipe!! All your recipes look amazing and delicious! I am trying these for my daughters 3rd Birthday! Yay!
Wow those look absolutely amazing. I need to get your frosting secret!
I am having issues with the icing. The buttercream is astonishing! However, when I add the strawberries it becomes too thin, when I add more sugar, it becomes too sugary and loses its strawberry flavor. Any suggestions?
I realllllly want a strong strawberry flavor but a thick icing.
Hi Lance!!
Here’s a trick I use when frosting goes bust for me… INSTANT PUDDING…. grab a small box of whatever flavor you’re aiming for and a tablespoon at a time add it in rather than powdered sugar. You will loose the ‘flavor’ and only get ‘sickly sweet’ if you go overboard with powdered sugar. The instant pudding will add a bit of thickness and pump back in the flavor… just add small amounts and not the whole pack all at once.
Let me know if this helps!! 😉
FANTASTICO! You rock the Casbah!
I try!! 😉
Let me know if that helps!!