Lemon cupcakes. An easy recipe for homemade lemon cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Sunshine sweet homemade lemon cupcakes are soft and moist, bursting with lemon flavor, and topped with my favorite vanilla. These are my favorite lemon cupcakes.

When life gives you lemons, make a big batch of lemon cupcakes!! These are one of my favorite cupcake recipes, I love the fluffy, moist crumb with that. A simple from-scratch lemon cupcake has blackberry buttercream frosting. You can cook Lemon cupcakes using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon cupcakes

It's 2 1/2 cups of flour.
It's 2 cups of sugar.
It's 3 tsp of baking powder.
You need 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1/2 cup of milk.
It's 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
Prepare 1/2 cup of oil.
You need of Zest of 2 lemons.
Prepare 2 of eggs.
It's 1 cup of water.
It's 200 g of butter.
It's of Icing sugar.
You need of Vanilla extract.
You need of Gel food colouring (optional).

This cupcake is a refreshing hit! Garnish each cupcake with a blackberry or a pinch of lemon zest. Lemon cupcakes are delicious, a perfect treat for the summer. They pair will with both fluffy, buttercream frostings and delicate, glaze icing.

Lemon cupcakes step by step

Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Combine the wet ingredients except the water in a medium sized bowl. Whisk all together.
Create a well in the dry ingredients then add the wet in the centre.
Mix in well.
Add the water then mix.
Grease the cupcake cases lightly and add the mixture.
Bake at 175 * c for 15-17 minutes.
Whisk the butter in a stand mixer or you can use the hand one. Until fluffy. Add icing sugar little by little until you get the desired sweetness. Then add vanilla extract.
Colour a majority of the buttercream with a small amount of green gel food colouring..
Use the grass tip (large with many holes) hold above the cupcake without letting it touch and squeeze. (make sure the cupcake has cooled).
For the Roses colour some buttercream pink and use the small swirl tip and make small tight circular motions..
For the blue flowers use the star tip and simply squeeze lightly..
And the yellow plants simply find the crescent shaped top and also squeeze lightly.

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