Refreshing lime cupcakes topped with lemon butter cream- SO easy and fun!!
I just can’t say goodbye to those summer flavors and colors….I know I should be sharing my apple and pumpkin recipes with you, but these just make me so happy!! The tart and the sweet….lime green and yellow….if you are missing summer already these are the perfect remedy this weekend!
INGREDIENTS:
- One boxed white cake mix
- Oil, eggs and water to make mix according to box
- 1 small box(3 oz) of lime jello
- 2 sticks of salted butter
- 2 sticks of unsalted butter
- 3 c. powdered sugar
- 3 t. lemon extract
- 1 t. vanilla extract
- Yellow food coloring (to desired shade)
DIRECTIONS:
- Make cake according to directions on box, but add lime jello before mixing.
- Pour into 24 lined cupcake tins and bake according to package.
- Cool cupcakes completely.
- Make frosting by combining butters (softened), powdered sugar, lemon and vanilla extracts and coloring in a large bowl and beating on high until light and fluffy.
- Pipe frosting onto cupcakes (watch this video for techniques)
- Decorate as desired. I topped with heart sprinkles
and sour fruit heart candies
, but I thought it might be fun to top with course salt and a cute straw and call them Margarita cupcakes! Be creative!
My thoughts: These are so easy. Because they use Jell-O, the flavor possibilities are incredible. Raspberry and Lemon? Peach? If you want a really easy twist on a plain cupcake these are your recipe! Enjoy!!! ~r
EASYBAKED 
These look sweet! I pinned them! Summers End Cupcakes! It’s chilly here for the first time, but we still made dinner in the crockpot! Thanks for this recipe, it sounds delish! 🙂 And Happy Mabon to you!
Thank you!!!
Ooh I love this idea!! My hubby would live some blue raspberry ones!
I think blue raspberry sounds amazing….!
I am making these tomorrow!!! If I can hold out overnight…
lol— hope they turned out beautifully for you and you are eating them up!
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I love the unexpected green color of the cake, what a pretty combination!
Thank you so much!!!
Oh these look great! I think I might adapt my vanilla cupcake recipe! How much in weight is a stick of butter?
I always have to google conversion sites like this one when I bake using metric 🙂 What I’m getting (using the converter) is 113.4g- double-check me though, because I am TERRIBLE at math! lol!
well how much in pounds or ounces does a stick of butter weigh?
One stick (using the converter) is:
1/4 lb, 4 oz, 1/2 c. and 8 Tbsp. Hope this helps!
Great! yep 125g in metric, our butter comes in 250g and 500g packs, so a stick of butter is a lot less than I thought!!
What a fun idea!! As usual you always make the recipes look so easy but beautiful!
: )
felicia
Thank you!!
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