Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Lemon Scented Cupcakes with Blueberry Sour Cream Frosting




What you need:

1 box White Cake Mix
Ingredients listed for mix (eggs, oil, water)
1/4 cup fresh Blueberries
1 Lemon
1 stick of butter
1/3 cup Sour Cream
4 cups Powdered Sugar
1 TBSP milk

How you do it:

Follow directions on cake mix
Zest half the lemon and add to mix
then add 1 TBSP lemon juice

In a mixer whip butter and sour cream
Cut blueberries in half then run down to a fine juicy cop with chef knife or use a food processor
Add blueberries and 1 tsp lemon juice
Slowly add powder sugar
Use milk if needed- The frosting will not be completely smooth when finished it may have a little of the grit from the sugar, it will go away when the frosting sets.

Why it's good:


The cake has just a subtle lemon flavor with small yellow flecks from the zest. The frosting is sweet and cool with a little color and flavor from the berries. These were perfect on the fourth of July. They were refreshing and light, everyone loved them. And I made 50 mini- cupcakes from one mix box and they were the perfect size for everyone to have one or two. To make 50 of these guys, it cost me under $10 and that included the red and blue paper cups they were in. Mangia Tutto!

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