Lemon-Raspberry Cupcakes

Servings:

In this lemon-raspberry cupcake recipe, fresh raspberries pair with plenty of lemony flavor and make for an awesome summertime cupcake! This recipe makes a lot of frosting — plenty to frost 15 cupcakes generously and then some — but it freezes well and would make a great sugar cookie topping, too!

Prep
37 min
Cook
46 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
  2. 2 Whisk 1 ½ cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and ¼ teaspoon salt together in a small bowl.
  3. 3 Beat sugar and ½ cup butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in 1 tablespoon lemon zest and vanilla extract. Stir in ½ flour mixture until just combined. Add in sour cream and 2 tablespoons lemon juice, stirring until just combined. Add in remaining ½ flour mixture; stir to combine.
  4. 4 Sprinkle 1 cup raspberries with 1 ½ teaspoons flour in a small bowl; toss to coat. Gently fold raspberries into batter. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each ¾ full.
  5. 5 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean, 20 to 23 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack until cooled completely, about 20 minutes.
  6. 6 Meanwhile, heat 1 cup raspberries in a small saucepan over medium heat until they burst and release their juices, 5 to 10 minutes; strain through a fine-mesh sieve set over a medium bowl, pressing, using the back of a wooden spoon, to extract approximately ⅓ cup juice from berries. Discard seeds; cool juice completely.
  7. 7 Beat 1 cup butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, until incorporated. Beat in ⅓ cup raspberry juice, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, ¼ teaspoon lemon zest, and 1 pinch salt; beat until combined. Beat in heavy cream until frosting is light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
  8. 8 Frost cooled cupcakes; top with additional raspberries.

Nutrition per serving

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