I cook with my senses. This talent was passed down from my unmistakably Italian grandmother. Not every recipe is Italian in origin, but every drop of that spirit and love for cooking is. Best of all there are no fancy techniques, and everything is either already in your kitchen or a quick add to your grocery list. Canned soups, veggies, sauces and dressings CAN make a meal easy and delicious. Mangia Tutto! (Eat Up!)
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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