Lemon Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting

• Since Easter is right around the corner I thought I would share this lemon recipe with you guys! It is so delicious  I made it for my sisters wedding this past weekend and I also made it last year for easter! (I got this recipe from myrecipe.com but I changed the frosting recipe and I tweaked the cake recipe a bit!) If you want to learn how to make the easter cupcake above click here:)
• Ingredients:
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar 
• 6 tablespoons butter, softened 
•  lemon rind of 1 lemon
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 2 large eggs 
• 2 large egg whites 
• 2 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/4 cups fat-free buttermilk 
• Frosting:
• 1 pound Cream Cheese
• 2 sticks of butter
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla 
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind
• 3 cups of confectioners sugar
• Step1: Pre-heat oven to 350. Combine the first five ingredients and mix for 5 minutes.
• Step2: Add in both the eggs and egg whites (one at a time)
• Step3: In a separate bowl combine all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda)
• Step4: Starting with the dry ingredients add them to the wet mixture then add the buttermilk(alternate until there is none left) Put into baking cups and bake for 20-22 minutes.
• Frosting:
• Cream the butter, vanilla,lemon rind, lemon juice and cream cheese. Slowly add in the confectioners sugar.

Kitty Cat Cupcakes

Meoowww! I love cats so of course I had to make kitty cat cupcakes, and wear my cat sweater during this tutorial! If you want video instructions click here:) 

What you'll need:
*Brown, black and pink fondant
*Wilton tip 1
*Wilton tip 12
*Small circle cutter
*Diamond cutter
*Brown and black buttercream frosting prepared in piping bags using the Wilton tip 1M
*White buttercream

Step1: Roll out the brown fondant, using the diamond cutter, punch out a diamond in the fondant. Once you have done this cut the diamond in half; this will be the cat's ears.

Step2: Repeat step 1 with the black fondant. Now take your Wilton tip 12 and use the small end as a cookie cutter and punch out the cat's eyes.




Step3: Repeat step 1, however rather then cutting the diamond in half only cut a small portion of the ends. This will be used as the inside of the cat's ears. With the small circle cutter, cut out the kitty's nose.








Step4: Taking your piping bag (prepared with the Wilton tip 1M) create tiny peaks on the cupcake to look like fur, do this with both the black and brown.

Step5: Take the cat's ears and the smaller pink triangles and "glue"(using water and a paint brush) the pink onto the ear.







Step6: Now the kitty is ready to assemble!! Place the pink circle in the middle for the nose, the black tiny circles for the eyes and last but certainly not least place the ears on the top of the cupcake!





Step7: This step really helps the cupcake to come together! Take a piping bag filled with white buttercream and the wilton tip 1 and pipe whiskers on the cupcake!

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