Yummy Lemon Cheesecake Cupcake Recipe

These lemon cheesecake cupcakes are the perfect bright, sweet dessert. The tangy citrus flavor is balanced out with the luscious cheesecake filling and a fluffy cupcake base.

Our perfect summer dessert is topped off with a lemon buttercream frosting that takes these cupcakes up to the next level. Adults and kids alike can enjoy the bright, light flavor of these sweet treats.

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Lemon Cheesecake Cupcakes

Here at Ruffles and Rain Boots, we love fun and unique cupcake recipes. This dessert is taken to the next level with the cheesecake pudding filling.

These easy to make cupcakes are packed with lemon flavor in the cupcake itself as well as the buttercream frosting. They have the perfect amount of tangy zing combined with a satisfyingly sweet flavor making them a perfect dessert for any Spring or Summer day and are much easier to make than most cheesecake recipes.

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Perfect Summer Cupcakes for a Warm Day

These delicious citrus delights are packed with lemon flavor, but the creamy cheesecake pudding filling helps to smooth down the citrus tang.

Even though this is a from scratch recipe and has three main components – cupcake base, frosting, and filling – it is still easy to make. And you can always start with my cake mix cupcake recipe base.

This versatile mini lemon cheesecake dessert is fancy enough to be served at parties and celebrations, but easy enough to whip up for your own afternoon treat.

Tips For Making This Summer Cupcake Recipe

• To make sure your cupcakes are light and fluffy, don’t over-mix the batter. In order to help prevent over-mixing, you should use softened butter and room temperature eggs and cream cheese.
• Get the buttercream to YOUR perfect consistency by adding powdered sugar to thicken or stiffen it up and a splash or milk to thin. It should be able to be scooped up and only have a little droop to it so that it will pipe well and hold its shape.
• Create the best lemon flavor with the lemon zest. Don’t skip it because it helps create a bright, vibrant flavor. For even more lemon flavor, you can brush a lemon simple syrup on top of the cupcakes before frosting.
• If you don’t have a piping bag, scoop frosting into a zip top bag and cut off a corner (with or without a piping tip).

Ingredients For This Lemon Cheesecake Cupcake Recipe

Below are the ingredients we used to make these cupcakes. You’ll find they are all pretty simple and standard items that you are likely to already have on hand.

For the Cupcakes:

• All-purpose Flour
• Granulated Sugar
• Butter
• Milk
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Vanilla
• Eggs
• Lemon Zest
• Lemon Juice
• Jello pudding, Cheesecake Flavor

For the Frosting:

• Butter
• Cream Cheese
• Powdered/Confectioners Sugar
• Lemon Juice
• Lemon Zest
• Yellow Food Coloring

How To Make Lemon Cheesecake Cupcakes

All of the steps for this recipe are detailed below. Keep this page open while baking so that you can refer to the step-by-step instructions. Or, print the recipe by scrolling down and hitting the print button.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, place cupcake liners into your cupcake tin, and set it aside.

In a large bowl, add the butter, sugar and vanilla and cream them together until light and fluffy.

Add in the eggs and combine with the creamed butter and sugar until well combined. Then, mix in the lemon juice and lemon zest and stir well.

Add in the flour, salt and baking soda.

As you stir the dry ingredients in, pour in the milk. Keep stirring everything until it is all fully combined.

Carefully scoop the cupcake batter into the lined cupcake tin filling each about halfway full.

Bake the cupcakes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 – 25 minutes. While cupcakes are baking, make your cheesecake filling and frosting.

To make the cheesecake filling, mix the pudding up according to the instructions on the box and then set it aside.

To make the frosting: add softened butter and cream cheese into a large bowl and whip them together until they are creamy.

Then, gradually beat in the powdered sugar one cup at a time. The frosting should start to form stiff peaks when the consistency is thick enough.

Finally, add in the lemon zest, lemon juice and a few drops of yellow food coloring. Fold those in until they are well combined.

Once the cupcakes are cooled, use a spoon to scoop out a small amount of the cupcake from the center. Make sure that you don’t scoop all the way down to the bottom.

Then, scoop a spoonful of the cheesecake pudding into the hole in the center of each cupcake.

Place the lemon buttercream frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star tip. Then, carefully pipe the frosting onto the top of each cupcake in a swirl pattern.

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