6/30/2012 Basket - Cherry Cupcakes and Cherry Frosting

Cherry Cupcakes
Uses from this basket: Cherries

I will warn you right now, this is the lazy way to make cherry cupcakes.  But they turned out so delicious it doesn't even seem worth it to make them the hard way.

• 1 white cake mix
• 2 cup cherries, pureed
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 1/4 cup flour

Mix cake mix according to box directions, adding cherry puree, almond extract, and flour at the end.  Bake according to package directions.  I topped them with this chocolate buttercream frosting and it was awesome.


Cherry Frosting
Uses from this basket: Cherries

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 3/4 cup cherries, pureed
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp almond extract

 Beat butter until light and fluffy.  Slowly beat in powdered sugar until well blended.  Add cherry puree, vanilla extract, and almond extract and mix.  Add additional powdered sugar as needed to achieve desired consistency.

We put this on lemon cupcakes (from a box mix...I rarely get up the energy to make cakes from scratch) and it was great.