white chocolate strawberry lemonade cupcake

Name: White Chocolate Strawberry Lemonade Cupcake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: ## LEMON CAKE; 2 1/2 cup(s) cake flour, sifted; 1 cup(s) white sugar; 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 2 large eggs; 3 large egg yolks; 1 cup(s) unsalted butter, softened; 2 teaspoon(s) lemon zest, finely grated; 1/4 cup(s) lemon juice, fresh; 2 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract; 1/2 cup(s) milk; ## WHITE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE FILLING; 2 cup(s) cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup(s) confectioner's sugar; 2 1/2 tablespoon(s) strawberry syrup; 10 ounce(s) white chocolate, melted in a double boiler; ## STRAWBERRY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING; 1 cup(s) unsalted butter, softened; 3 1/2 cup(s) confectioner's sugar; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt; 3 tablespoon(s) strawberry syrup; - red food coloring drops to adjust color of frosting; ## GARNISH; 1/4 cup(s) sliced strawberries; 3 tablespoon(s) white chocolate chips

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Maggie May Schill

Jacksonville, FL

Updated on May 2, 2012

I had invited a bunch of people over to come see my new house recently. I thought it would be nice to have a yummy little baked good offering for them all. Strawberries are officially in season here in Florida so I got the idea for these cupcakes. I love lemon desserts, and I love my lemon cake recipe, so I combined it all into these cupcakes. To new beginnings! Because strawberries are in season I suggest making your own strawberry syrup if you can!

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prep time 20 Min

cook time 20 Min

method Bake

yield 24 serving(s)

Ingredients

LEMON CAKE
2 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
1 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 large eggs
3 large egg yolks
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 teaspoons lemon zest, finely grated
1/4 cup lemon juice, fresh
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
WHITE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE FILLING
2 cups cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons strawberry syrup
10 ounces white chocolate, melted in a double boiler
STRAWBERRY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
3 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons strawberry syrup
- red food coloring drops to adjust color of frosting
GARNISH
1/4 cup sliced strawberries
3 tablespoons white chocolate chips

How To Make white chocolate strawberry lemonade cupcake

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350'F

Step 2

For Lemon Cake: In a mixing bowl sift together flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder. Whisk them together and set aside.
Step 3

Cream butter with an electric mixer. Add sugar to butter gradually, continue beating until sugar is completely beaten with butter into a paste. Beat the butter paste until it is super fluffy and light.
Step 4

Add whole eggs and egg yolks to the sugar butter paste one at a time completely incorporating each egg.
Step 5

Add vanilla extract and lemon zest to butter mixture. Completely incorporate.
Step 6

Add lemon juice to butter mixture and beat slowly until completely incorporated. Side note: The mixture will look curdled after you add the lemon juice. This is normal, it'll smooth out when you get to the dry ingredients.
Step 7

Add your dry ingredients in three additions. Add your milk in two additions in between adding your dry ingredients.
Step 8

Beat down sides of bowl and beat on high for 20 seconds.
Step 9

Pour batter out into lined cupcake pans. Bake for 21 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Step 10

For White Chocolate Strawberry Cheese: In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together
Step 11

Add melted white chocolate to the cream cheese mixture and blend completely. Side note: Be sure the white chocolate is cooled, but not hardening. If the chocolate is scalding it will cook the cream cheese! The white chocolate should be slightly warm to the touch.
Step 12

Once chocolate is completely blended into cream cheese mixture, add strawberry syrup. Blend loosely, this will give the mixture a ribbon of syrup and keep it from turning pink entirely.
Step 13

For Strawberry Butter Cream Frosting: Blend all that goodness together. Add the food coloring as needed to adjust the color to the pink your prefer.
Step 14

Assembly: Once cup cake are cooled core the cupcakes and scoop cheese cake filling into each cake. They will take about a half of a tablespoon each.
Step 15

Frost with butter cream frosting. Garnish as desired and chill before serving.
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