Strawberry Lemonade

When I get bored, I like to try and create some new cupcake ideas from existing items that I love. This time I decided to try Strawberry Lemonade. I drink it all the time and I figured it couldn't be that tricky to make a great tasting cupcake with those flavors. I started off with a basic lemon cake recipe and added in some fresh cut strawberries and a little more lemon zest to get the flavor just right. Then I worked on the buttercream. I wanted it to taste like a strawberry buttercream with a finishing bite. Since my cupcake had such great lemon flavor the buttercream really had to bring in the strawberry flavor. After throwing out around 3 batches of failed buttercream, I finally had success. The It took a lot of work to make these, but the results were very tasty. Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes are a winner.