Cupcake Week! Day 1: Raspberry Lemonade

Day 1 was successful. In fact, it's going to be very hard to top. I love anything lemon flavored and I love raspberry filling. So, the natural thing to do was to put them together. Thus the raspberry lemonade cupcake was born. Lemon cake filled +raspberry filling topped with lemon buttercream icing = DELISH!

I got my lemon cake recipe adapted from Hello, Cupcake!'s lemon poppyseed recipe. I got the lemon buttercream recipe from here. You can't go wrong with Wilton. They practically invented icing. So! Here we go!
The ingredients

Into the oven they go (forgot to take a pic of mixing the ingredients)

How approriate to burn my lemon cupcake candle while baking?

Icing (had a little help thanks to yellow food coloring)

Raspberry filling Normally I use seedless jam, but I decided to give

this pastry filling a try. It takes the cake! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

Filling the cupcakes with my Wilton cake decorator

thanks to C's Grandad and Grandmom. (yes that is Crystal

Light Lemonade I'm drinking, I wasn't kidding about my love

of lemon).

All filled up

VOILA!!!!

Bethany, my taste audience.

Success! Raspberry Lemonade was a hit!