Sweet and Tangy Watermelon Cupcakes
Here's a simple, fun and delicious recipe that you're going to want to add to your recipe lineup this summer...but they're delicious any time of the year!
When little DIY (my 10-year old daughter) requested Watermelon Cake, I did a little searching online and found this recipe that I adapted for cupcakes.
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The recipe uses a white cake mix* and a package of watermelon jello mix*. I used Jolly Rancher Watermelon Jello mix, which made the cake kind of tangy and tart...a great contrast with the dark chocolate chips.
At the time, I only had regular sized chips in my pantry; since then I've made these Watermelon Cupcakes with mini chocolate chips (both in the batter and on top of the icing). The chips resemble watermelon seeds and look so cute!
I made my own Cream Cheese Frosting and colored it very pale green to resemble the watermelon rind. Do yourself a favor and make your own cream cheese frosting! It's only a couple ingredients (including butter of course), but the taste is far superior to the packaged frosting and really sets your cupcakes apart and adds to the homemade-over-store-bought-taste!
Baked in red gingham cupcake wrappers*, not only are these cupcakes adorable, they're really good! They're moist and not overly sweet; they have the tangy-ness from the cream cheese frosting and the tartness from the watermelon flavoring.
If fact, although we're not 'cake people' at our home, we all gave these a thumbs up!
If fact, although we're not 'cake people' at our home, we all gave these a thumbs up!
There's something about the colors of these cupcakes that just says 'summer'!
What's your favorite cupcake? Let me know in the comments section!
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Seems like a great watermelon cupcake... never would have thought of such a flavour...they look lovely, tangy and tarty, lovely combination.
ReplyDeleteThank you, yes they are a little unusual but very tasty!
DeleteWonderful recipe.Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
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