Perfect Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream

Love lemon awesome recipe here thankyou for another great treat. 🙂

This cannot be called a recipe when you are using packet mixes.

I made these using milk instead of water for the cake, as I always do when making a box cake. I also baked at 25 degrees lower. The cupcakes were done on time, and looked perfect, but collapsed shortly after coming out of the oven. I thought maybe it had to do with the milk, but see several comments about the cupcakes falling in the center. Any ideas as to what may cause this? I did the toothpick test and, using that method, they were done…..??

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Very yummy recipe! Lemon is our favorite. Mine fell too after taken from the oven. I just filled them in with icing. I also used greek yogurt in place of the sour cream and they turned out great!

These sound like the perfect cupcake. I love lemon and the mix of sour cream and pudding in the cake sounds so flavorful and moist I bet. Plus lemon buttercream sounds absolutely amazing!

I tried the recipe for the cupcakes and they fell also. I tried them again and a few fell again. but the texture was different the second time. It was more like a cake. I still am not certain what happened with the first batch…they were for a reception, I did a variety of cupcakes and large sheet cake. I was worried about the Lemon ones but they turned out to be the most popular…

Yumm, these look really great. Love lemon anything.

I tried a whole cake without pudding which sunk. My toothpick came out clean but the cake didn’t have a very “cake like” texture.

I have a question. I’ve used this recipe for over a year whenever i need to bring dessert to an event and everyone always LOVES them. i get requests all the time. Since the recipes been such a hit, i’ve made a chocolate variation with chocolate cake mix and pudding and those turned out great as well. Well my friends favorite type of cake is funfetti, so i went out and bought a box of the mix as well as vanilla pudding. I was just going to follow this recipe again with my variations. However, i just noticed that the funfetti box said that there was already pudding added. Should i go ahead and make it with the vanilla pudding or just skip it? Im worried it will come out funny.

How moist and yummy! Great recipe. And, just a side note – I was going way fast when I made these and I accidentally grabbed a large box of cook n’serve pudding instead of a small box of instant pudding – well, it still worked! 🙂 So, if anyone else makes that mistake, it’s okay! 🙂

Love it when great things start with a mix. (not so threatening for my ability)

I make these cupcakes this past weekend and they were a hit! Everyone loved them! They are so refreshing! Even my friends who hate sweets ate 2 or 3! Def making them again soon!

I made these cupcakes because the host of the annual friendly chili cookoff loves lemon. They were such a hit that I’m sending the recipe to all of my friends. The cupcakes did collapse but that was fine it just meant more frosting. The cupcakes that I left in for less than a minute longer did not collapse and were not dry. Instead of cream cheese frosting I made a 7 minute frosting that I grated lemon zest just before I frosted the cupcakes. I also topped the cupcakes with zest. I didn’t use the cream cheese frosting only because I was also making carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

I made the cupcakes and cake tonight. The cake collapsed in the middle. The middle is two inches lower than the sides! However, both cupcakes and cake still taste wonderful. I love this recipe, and I recommend the cupcake version over the cake version.

these cupcakes are ridiculously good! i made them for my birthday.. we'll see what the coworkers think! thanks for sharing the recipe!

These look absolutely perfect! Delicious!

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Wow these cupcakes are amazing!!! I made them for easter and they were a huget hit. I have to shamefully admit I ate way too many of them. Great recipe!

Oh my goodness these cupcakes are amazing. I made these for easter and they were a huge hit. My only negative is that I wish I sent them home with my mother so there weren’t so many left over for me to eat the next day, HA! Seriously though, great recipe.

I made this recipe into a regular cake (Not enough cupcake pans) this weekend and have to thank you for such a wonderful recipe! The frosting was light and fluffy and tangy! It was the perfect balance to the dense, moist cake.

It was a hit with my fammily and neighbors!

I love lemon. It tastes so spring-like and refreshing. Those look so good. Your photo is really good!

What a perfect spring dessert!
Looks lovely!

Thanks for sharing!

I’m not a baker, but these looked so pretty, I had to click on your entry on tastespotting. I was glad to see regular cake mix used, so maybe I could do this! Thanks for sharing.

I made the cupcake part of this recipe yesterday. I used a strawberry cake mix and vanilla pudding and I added about a cup of milk chocolate chips to the batter before baking. Then I topped them with a cream cheese frosting. They were way good. Mine did fall when I took them out of the oven.

just wanted to tell you that your cupcakes look beautiful!

Those look so yummy! I love lemon with strawberry, fantastic!

These cupcakes look beautiful! I love lemon cake, it’s one of my favorites.

Your cupcakes look just beautiful! They sound yummy too-perfect for spring.

These really do look perfect, and the picture of spring!

I still have this on my list to try. Your cupcakes are so cute. I love what you did with them.

Laura, your pictures are amazing! I love the strawberry garnish. I’m glad you liked this recipe!