Light and fluffy lemon cupcakes with a beautiful raspberry buttercream - these lemon raspberry cupcakes are a hit and the perfect dessert!
Equipment
1 12 cup Muffin Pan
Wilton 1M Piping Tip optional
Piping Bags optional
Cupcake/Muffin Liners
Ingredients
1/2cupunsalted butter, melted
2tbspsvegetable oil
1 1/4cupsugar
2eggs
1/2cupsour cream
1/3cupwhole milk
1tspvanilla extract
2tsplemon extract
2tbspslemon zest
1/3cuplemon juice
1 3/4cupall-purpose flour
1tspbaking powder
1/2tspbaking soda
1/4tspkosher salt
Raspberry Buttercream
1cupunsalted butter, room temperature
2/3cupraspberries
5cupspowdered sugar
1tbspraspberry extract , (optional)
4tbspsheavy cream
pinchkosher salt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, oil, and sugar. Whisk together for 1-2 minutes, then add eggs. Continue to whisk until eggs are fully incorporated and then add sour cream, milk, vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Whisk all ingredients together until a smooth batter forms.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together and add to the wet ingredients. Fold into the wet ingredients until just combined.
Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with oil. Add cupcake liners and fill each cup 3/4. Bake for 20-22 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
While cupcakes are baking, make the raspberry buttercream. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, add room temperature butter and beat butter on medium speed for 3 minutes. Add raspberries and continue to beat together for another minutes.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add 1 cup of powdered sugar, continuing to mix on medium speed for 1 minutes, then increasing the speed to high for about 10 seconds. Reduce speed back to medium and add powdered sugar. Repeat until all powdered sugar is added.
Continue to mix on medium speed and slowly add heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time. If using, add raspberry extract. Place in the refrigerator until lemon cupcakes are fully cooled and ready to be iced.
Pipe/ice each lemon cupcake with raspberry icing.
Notes
The piping tips I used for the pictures are wilton tip 1M.
Make sure the cupcakes have cooled completely prior to adding the icing on top.