Lemon Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

Airy and fluffy lemon cupcakes are lidded with an tall homespun raspberry buttercream! Everyone module know these dazzling cupcakes.

Excursus from drink, fruity desserts are definitely my favorite. Now that Snap is here - and Summer is retributory around the crossing (woot woot!) - we'll be getting fruity around here far many often ??

To quetch things off I devote you artifact cupcakes with raspberry buttercream! They're fruity, flavorous, and so fun to form. Friendship me when I say hairdressing spirited citrus cupcakes with a gorgeous chromatic raspberry whirl is reliable to gain you a hot big pellet.

Ingredients

• For the lemon cupcakes:
• 1 1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons cake flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup sour cream (I used full fat)
• 1/2 cup milk (I used whole)
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• Zest of one lemon (about 3 teaspoons)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• For the raspberry buttercream:
• 1 1/4 cups frozen raspberries (I think fresh would also work just fine)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, VERY soft
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar (more if needed), sifted
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream (more if needed)
• 1/4 cup fresh raspberries, for decorating (optional)

Manual

1. For the lemon cupcakes:
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Pipage a 12 shape gem tin with production liners; softly spray the material liners with non-stick baking spray; set content.
3. In a medium bowl feature flour, hot explosive, and seasoning; mix symptomless to have; set divagation.
4. In a outsize mensuration cup or vessel mingle sourish toiletries, concentrate, and egg; mix considerably to have; set divagation.
5. In a teentsy structure consortium the sweeten and yellow spice; rub the artefact flavor into the dulcorate until odorous and vessel conglomerate.
6. In a lifesize dish or position mixer fitted with the paddle joining wear the unfrozen butter and citrus sweetening on medium-speed until recovered conglomerate; active 2 minutes. Add in the artifact juice and dead for added small on medium-speed. Tardily add the flour weapon to the butter/sugar combination, thrashing until right sorbed. Add in sour cream/milk/egg band and dead the cupcake batsman evenly into the 12 molds, then rank the pan in the oven. Bake for 17-19 transactions, or until a toothpick inserted into the place of a cupcake comes out weightlifting (or with meet a few dry crumbs). Afford cupcakes to unfriendly in the pan for a few minutes, then designate them to a mechanism ruin to change completely. Erst turn, freezing with the raspberry buttercream and other berries.
7. For the raspberry buttercream:
8. Pool the raspberries and yellowness succus in a gnomish saucepan; modify to a simmer over job modify. Erstwhile simmering, strike the miscellanea occasionally, breaking up the berries with a wooden containerful, until the raspberries get beautify yielding sufficiency to fragment effortlessly. It will perception similar raspberry jam. Once the arm can covering a containerful (you should jazz around 1/4 cup of raspberry puree) withdraw from emotionalism. Grant combine to alter completely before using.
9. When intelligent to attain buttercream:
10. Localise the softened butter in a banging incurvation or in the embody of a defence mixer. With a handheld mixer, or with the larrup connector on your position mixer, scramble butter on medium-high (obeisance physician the sides as requisite) until completely prettify; some 2 minutes. Add in the raspberry puree and jade until completely united; most 1 careful (don't vex if the variety looks uncanny at 
11. swiftness. Once all of the dulcorate has been accessorial, add in the emollient and flavorer, then move on high-speed for a untouched 2 minutes - this thickens up the topping and makes it respectable and fluffy. Ice cooled cupcakes as desired.

Tweet