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I cheated when I made these. I used a box cake mix.
I don’t use cake mix often. But sometimes, life calls for it. Like when my daughter asks me to bake cupcakes for her swim team, giving me two days notice.
And of course, it’s during a crazy insane week. Yes, part of the craziness includes watching 4 hours of tour de france. Get over it.
But, they tasted great, and that’s what matters. Oh, and you could just use lemon cake mix, but whatever. I had this on hand and I made it work!
The frosting though is the key to these cupcakes. Tangy raspberry lemonade concentrate gives it some zing!
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Raspberry Lemonade Cupcakes
by Shugary Sweets
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients (26-30 cupcakes)
For the Cupcakes:
- 1 box (18.25oz) white cake mix
- 1 box (3oz) lemon jello powder
- 3 egg whites
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 1/4 cup water
For the Frosting:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 7 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate, thawed
- 2 drops red food coloring
Instructions
For the cake, add cake mix, jello, egg whites, oil and water in a mixing bowl. Beat 2 minutes until blended. Fill cupcake liners half full and baking in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
For the frosting, beat butter, powdered sugar, raspberry lemonade and food coloring on high for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Fill a decorator bag (I used tip 2D) and pipe onto cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle with sparkly coarse sugar if desired.
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These sound delicious and I love your pics!
Thanks Jenn!
Yum!! I am on a raspberry kick and will have to try these out! Thanks for sharing – pinnint now!
Kelsey, I totally am on a raspberry kick too. I have another great recipe coming to the blog soon…the raspberries are juicy and giant sized right now!
they look awesome! at the beginning of summer I bought a box of special edition pink lemondade cake mix – havent used it – and now, this post pops up. Great idea just to use white mix and doctor it!
Pink Lemonade Cake mix? That sounds amazing! And would go very well with this frosting
Oooooohhhh so fun! This looks awesome!
Looks really cute and delicious! I love how you added the stripe straws to each cupcake.
Who cares if it comes from a box?! Boxed cake mix can be doctored up in so many ways. And lemon is a great flavor. My mom makes a lemon bundt/pound cake from it. (And most moms would’ve went to the bakery section and just bought the cupcakes, right?
These are so pretty Aimee! I love boxed mixes…so easy in a pinch. And that frosting sounds to die for!
Cupcakes are all about the icing, so it’s okay that you used a cake mix
Thanks Ellen! I do love the frosting…on ANY cupcake!
Well, you know that I am all about using doctored up cake mixes for everything:-) These look and sound great…perfect summer time cupcake!!! I love your shot with the green in the background:-)
I used the pink lemonade cake mix. Loved it so much. Now u can’t find it anywhere. Totally bummed
Mmm, raspberry lemonades are one of my fave summertime drinks and now they’re in cupcake form? I’m drooling! Seriously, the way people feel about pb + chocolate is how I feel about raspberry + lemon. It’s an awesome pairing. These cupcakes look totally yummy, Aimee!
I am with you Hayley. I LOVE Raspberry and Lemon together too! I’ve got another recipe coming soon with that combo.
Hi there, I’m hosting My Sweet party and I would love you to join! Check it out at http://meandmysweets.blogspot.se/2012/07/my-sweet-party-july-my-favourite-pie.html
Cheers!
Yummy! I never met a cupcake I didn’t like, made with a box or not! Great flavor combination!!! Good luck with all the insanity!
Haha, thanks Tanya. It’s good insanity
This is like those pink lemonade cake mixes I’ve been seeing on the shelves recently. I like your version better though Aimee. They look great! perfect for summer!
I have not seen those cake mixes. I don’t buy cake mix often though, so I think I better go check this out….
Yummo! Thanks for sharing! We would love to have you link up some of your recipes over at our party!
http://baked-inthesouth.blogspot.com/2012/07/made-it-by-monday-link-party.html
Oh yum, and oh cute! I love these!
these are so flipping adorable!! i love the straws and “lemonade” theme
who cares if it’s a boxed mix! they’re tried and true!
Thanks Julie!
wow!! yum yum yum!!!
would love it if you could share them on my link party – http://serenityyou.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/serenity-saturday-48.html
Natasha xx
Yummy!
haha, cake mix isn’t cheating
I wanted to make doughnuts, but instead of making the batter, I used cake mix. I forgot that cake has a total different texture than doughnuts. So it was just little circular cakes.
But these things look to DIE for!! I would eat half the batch, and I don’t even think I would be sorry
Cake mix or not, those look yummy and they’re so cute! Thanks for sharing them! Visiting from Wow Me Wednesday.
I’m not above souping up a box mix. These look so fun and cute, I’m sure no one even noticed! Love it!
These sound and look divine! Hoping to try them asap
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These sound wonderful! I’m going to try to make these soon…I’m sure the hubs and neighbors will love them!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe over at my link party. I featured you today!
These look so yummy, and I love the cute straws and cupcake liners. Great pictures! Jodi @ http://www.meaningfulmama.com
I love these!! I’d love to have you link this up to Tasty Thursdays on The Mandatory Mooch. It’s a new linky party starting today. Hope to see you there. Thanks, Nichi
http://mandatorymooch.blogspot.com/2012/07/tasty-thursdays-1.html
The picture looks super beautiful
and yummy……
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen frozen raspberry lemonade before -is it pretty common item in stores?
Hello, I just started my very own baking blog and I used your recipe today to make a Bunny Cake! It is so amazingly delicious! I changed the frosting a tinsy tiny little bit but other than that it is perfect! Hope it’s okay that I used it and am posting it on my blog.
Email me if it’s not and I will take it down.
Hope you’re having a fabulous week!
-The Dessert Monster-
I looked for raspberry lemonade frozen mix at Walmart and could find it. Any suggestions?
I mean could not find it.
Hmmm, I just bought some. You could try using powdered KOOLAid raspberry lemonade (start with a teaspoon), and use about 2-3 Tbsp of milk in the frosting. Beat for about 3-5 minutes. Taste it. Add more powder if necessary.
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