Lemon Easter Egg Cupcakes

Delicious Easter Egg Cupcakes that are certain to brand anyone smiling over the holidays! Top these lemon cupcakes amongst cadbury mini eggs for the perfect treat!

Lemon is the flavor of Spring. Am I right, or am I right? Lemony goodness screams springtime. Or perchance it’s simply the colouring cloth yellowish that screams Spring… but something close the prospect of sunshine coming out, leaving the family without a wintertime coat, too pulling out my pelting boots makes me desire to bake upwards simply about lemon treats!

These cupcakes were moist, airy, too suuuuper slowly to make! I hope you lot that your kids volition hold upwards bespeak for more!

Ingredients for Lemon Easter Egg Cupcakes

These easter egg cupcakes are thence slowly to make! Just similar whatever cupcake recipe, in that location are 2 master copy parts, baking the cupcakes too mixing the icing. Here is what you lot demand for everything:

Ingredients for Cupcakes

• 1/2 loving cup butter (softened)
• 1 loving cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2/3 loving cup sour cream
• 1 tbsp finely grated lemon rind
• 1/4 loving cup lemon juice

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Icing

• 1/4 loving cup butter (softened)
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1/2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

How to Make Your Delicious Easter Egg Cupcakes

1. Fit 12 muffin cups amongst newspaper liners (or grease them). Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In bowl, trounce butter until light. Add sugar. Beat until low-cal too fluffy. Beat inward eggs, 1 at a fourth dimension until smooth.
3. In a split bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, too salt. In a pocket-size bowl whisk together sour cream, lemon rind, too lemon juice.
4. Stir a tertiary of the dry out ingredients into the egg mixture, too then one-half of the lemon mixture. Repeat, finishing amongst the remaining dry out ingredients.
5. Spoon into prepared cups. Bake inward centre of oven for 22 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool on rack.
6. In a bowl trounce cream cheese too butter until smooth. Beat inward one-half of the icing sugar, lemon rind too lemon juice until smooth. Beat inward remaining icing sugar.
7. Spread over cupcakes – I used a thick icing tip to create a circle, too placed mini eggs inward the centre for a festive Easter “birds nest” thought :)

Printable Recipe Card for Easter Egg Cupcakes

Easter Egg Cupcakes

Yield:
12

Prep Time:
30 minutes

Total Time:
30 minutes

Delicious Easter Egg Cupcakes that are certain to brand anyone smiling over the holidays! Top these lemon cupcakes amongst cadbury mini eggs for the perfect treat!

Ingredients

• 
  1/2 loving cup butter (softened)


• 
  1 loving cup granulated sugar


• 
  2 large eggs


• 
  1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour


• 
  1 tsp baking powder


• 
  1/4 tsp baking soda


• 
  1/4 tsp salt


• 
  2/3 loving cup sour cream


• 
  1 tbsp finely grated lemon rind


• 
  1/4 loving cup lemon juice


• 
  1/4 loving cup butter (softened)


• 
  2 cups icing sugar


• 
  1/2 tsp finely grated lemon rind


• 
  2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

1. Fit 12 muffin cups amongst newspaper liners (or grease them). Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In bowl, trounce butter until light. Add sugar. Beat until low-cal too fluffy. Beat inward eggs, 1 at a fourth dimension until smooth.
3. In a split bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, too salt. In a pocket-size bowl whisk together sour cream, lemon rind, too lemon juice.
4. Stir a tertiary of the dry out ingredients into the egg mixture, too then one-half of the lemon mixture. Repeat, finishing amongst the remaining dry out ingredients.
5. Spoon into prepared cups. Bake inward centre of oven for 22 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool on rack.
6. In a bowl trounce cream cheese too butter until smooth. Beat inward one-half of the icing sugar, lemon rind too lemon juice until smooth. Beat inward remaining icing sugar.
7. Spread over cupcakes - I used a thick icing tip to create a circle, too placed mini eggs inward the centre for a festive Easter "birds nest" idea.

© Lindi

Category: dessert

Honestly, if you’re looking for a moist lemon cupcake, this 1 is delicious!

And nonetheless moist days after :)