Tuesday, May 3, 2011

blueberry lemonade cupcakes.

it feels like forever since the last time that i wrote a post. i definitely miss it! i have missed baking, too! 

i have wanted to make some type of blueberry lemonade cupcake for a while now. since school is out, it hasn't rain today (yay!) and matt is out golfing, i figured today would be a perfect day to bake! i googled recipes for lemonade cupcakes just to see what was out there. most of the ones are for pink lemonade cupcakes. but i found one for strawberry lemonade and decided to go with that version. the original recipe can be found over here at hil's blog. 


i did change a couple things. obviously i used blueberries instead of strawberries. i also added 3 T of thawed lemonade concentrate to my frosting to give it more of a lemonade flavor. i also added some food coloring to get my frosting a funkier bluish/purplish. another thing i tried was adding yellow food coloring to the batter. i only made four cupcakes with the yellow. it ended up being a pretty intense yellow but i kinda like it...definitely looks more lemonade-y than the white cupcakes, for sure. 

so white or yellow?!

 
oh, and the only other thing i would have done had i actually had some, would have been to add blueberry vodka. i think that would be amazing! am i wrong?!