Summertime is filled with family fun, cookouts, and refreshing treats. It’s my favorite time of the year.
With the unofficial kick-off to summer, Memorial Day, coming up you might be looking for a special sweet treat to make for your friends and family. These Cherry Limeade Cupcakes are the perfect summertime dessert – a real show stopper! You’re going to love how easy this Cherry Limeade Cupcake recipe is to prepare.
Cherry limeade is such a refreshing drink during the summer months. Flavored with fresh limes and maraschino cherry juice, these cupcakes are full of summer flavor. The cupcake recipe is a fan favorite.
Summertime. How sweet it is.
Most Cherry Limeade Cupcakes I have seen have a lime cupcake and cherry frosting, so I decided to do something a little different. I made cherry cupcakes flavored with maraschino cherry juice and Cherry 7UP, and topped them with a tangy lime frosting that is out of this world delicious.
These cupcakes have yet another special twist. Instead of poking a paper straw into them, like you often see, the sweet cherry goodness continues with Twizzlers Twists. I love that cherry flavor and think this edible option is way more fun than a paper straw.
Cherry Limeade Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cucpakes
- 15.25 ounce box white cake mix with NO pudding
- 3.4 ounce box of instant vanilla pudding
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice cherries reserved
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 12 ounces Cherry 7UP 1 can equivalent
- red food coloring optional
Frosting
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 5-6 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tsp grated lime zest
- green food coloring optional
- Twizzlers Twists cut in half
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Place cupcake liners in muffin pans.
- In a medium bowl with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer, combine and mix all ingredients on medium speed for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. If desired, stir in a few drops of red food coloring until batter is pink.
- Pour mixture into prepared muffin pan. Bake 20 to 24 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cupcakes comes out clean. Let cool completely.
- Meanwhile, prepare the frosting. Place butter in a large bowl and beat with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add 5 cups of powdered sugar, salt, lime juice, and lime zest. Mix until a thick and creamy consistency is achieved. Add more powdered sugar until the frosting is of a good spreading (or piping) consistency. Mix in a tiny amount of green food coloring if you’d like the frosting to have a green tint.
- Pipe or spread frosting atop cooled cupcakes. Top each cupcake with one of the reserved cherries. Poke one half of a Twizzlers Cherry Twist into the top of each cupcake, to resemble a straw.
These would be so perfect for a summer get together! I love the addition of the Twizzlers over paper straws too!
These look incredible! That frosting is so light and fluffy! I love the color too!
I didn’t know that you could make cherry limeade cupcakes. But they look so cute!!
These are perfect! My favorite drink right now is cherry limeade so these cupcakes caught my eye right away! Pinned. Visiting from diy Sunday Showcase
Cherry limeade is a good combination. I think they sure look pretty when they’re done.
Oh, those look sooo good! I love a cherry limeade drink, so I bet the cupcakes would be fabulous!
Cherry Limeade is one of my favorite flavor combinations. I bet I would love these! Thanks for the recipe.
These look totally amazing. The Twizzler “straw” is a great visual flourish.
I like cupcakes. I like cherry limeade. I like Twizzlers. There is absolutely nothing in this recipe I do not like, other than the fact that I’m not already devouring a batch of these at this moment.
Frosting is my weakness. I would have to double or triple it!