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So I decided if I am going to keep cooking, might as well come up with a new feature. I think Kari in the Kitchen works well! I hope you enjoy it, but don’t expect it very often!

Today I have you for, my adventure in making lemon cupcakes with strawberry icing.

All of my ingredients...almost

First we start with the ingredients. I always like to take a picture of these before I start, and of course this time, I left out the eggs and oil, but you get the point lol.

Ingredients for the cupcakes: 1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist white cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake box
3 tablespoons grated lemon peel

Lemon peel

This recipe made me a little nervous. I wasn’t quite sure how many lemons to get, or even if I had a grater. I found a really nice one, must have been a wedding present.

Finished cupcakes

I only got three lemons, I would suggest at least getting 5 to get the full 3 tablespoons. I ended up having about 2 tablespoons, but the cupcakes turned out pretty good and you could still taste the lemon.

Icing ingredients

Icing Ingredients: 4-6 medium strawberries, hulled
1 container Betty Crocker Whipped Fluffy White Frosting

I wasn’t quite sure what the making of the icing was going to be like. I had to look up what it meant to hull something:

To remove the green stalk and cup (calix) from fruits such as strawberries, or the pods from peas or broad beans.

Yeah, that doesn’t help much. All you do is take a knife and cut around the stem to get it out, you cut down towards the center of the strawberry.

Mixing the icing

Once the strawberries are hulled, you put them in your blender, or Magic Bullet in my case (I love that thing).

You mix them until you get a nice little liquid mixture like you can see to the left in my mixing bowl. When you have that, you just stir it into the fluffy icing – and bam, strawberry icing! Who knew it would be so easy to make a flavored icing?

And lets eat!

Friends, there you have the finished product.  The one problem with these cupcakes, there is no easy way to eat them. I ended up eating mine with a fork. The icing was pretty sticky and I always transport them in my cupcake pan. I should get a travel case.

I hope you guys have a chance to make these. They are the perfect summer cupcake! Let me know how they go!

Wordless Wednesday is exactly what is says – add a pic – you can explain if you want, if not, no biggie. That’s the joy of being wordless. If you stop by here a lot, you know wordless is not an option for me. I’m a talker. I talk all the time. Oh, picture? Yes, here we go.

Ahhh, the delicious strawberry preserve cupcakes I made this week. Very simple, very tasty. Click the picture to see all of my pictures on my cupcake adventure. And leave me a comment with your email address if you’d like the recipe.