Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes: Tangy lemon-infused cupcakes, topped with fluffy pink lemonade frosting. A refreshing treat for those long summer days!

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Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

I can’t believe it, I feel so out of touch, but this looks like my first baked goods in almost a month due to that pesky reoccurring cold I had (that I posted about in my last post). I’ve totally missed baking, blogging and visiting all my favourite blogs. Feels like I’ve been on some sort of weird vacation where I’ve not been online much yet vacations are supposed to be good, right? Not a fever sweaty bed vacation LOL! I have a hell of a lot to catch up on so please bear with me and don’t bail out. 🙂

So, last week I wanted to get back into the swing of things. It’s a really weird feeling to have had the energy and passion back once again yet to be finding myself in the kitchen actually reading the directions on the recipe because I’d become rusty. It was funny too because over time, I’ve become fast at doing ingredients, I’d start with creaming the butter and sugar together and while they were creaming, I’d start weighing out my others into other bowls. Of course, I did this but so much slower than normal and getting myself in a flap about it. Seriously, it was funny! Like I didn’t know what I was doing, heh!

Therefore I bring ye some pink lemonade cupcakes! That should have read ‘Therefore I bring ye some made in a complete state of dazed, confused and ‘in a flap’ style pink lemonade cupcakes.’ They were in a book named “The Cupcake” that my fella, the giant man-baby, bought me as a gift. They were on my to-do list of things to bake which I had completely forgotten about until I was casually flipping through the book and re-ignited my desire to make [and eat].

They’re made of basic sponge recipe then drizzled in a warm lemon sugar syrup and allowed to cool before frosting them with a zesty lemon buttercream frosting that includes a little double (heavy?) cream. Then, of course, decorated with either pink and white sugar crystals or pink, white, and red ‘hundreds and thousands’ (nonpareils sprinkles). But of course, you can decorate it however you feel. But it must be topped off with a straw to give it that finishing pink lemonade retro yet funky feel. I love that!

I am totally digging these pink lemonade cupcakes right now. I’m glad I made them. The lemon gives that refreshing kick to the moist yet light sponge and that buttercream frosting was so dreamy creamy yet with a touch of tangy lemon. The giant man-baby commented that they were a bit like cheesecake. Not sure how but I suspect he meant that the buttercream frosting is quite creamy. It may also be because I make him a lot of lemon cheesecake so he remembered that taste and associated? 😆

So what are you waiting for? In 30 mins you can have some too. Get to that kitchen! Stat.