Who Would Have Guessed

When you're waiting around for a baby to be born,

it's best to get the cupcake pans out and 

do some baking. 

Elizabeth and me, the cupcake duo,

decided we wanted to do something

easy,

summery

with lots of buttercream frosting.

The flavor that we chose was lemon.

I had lots of cake recipes  from scratch,

but shhh! 

don't tell 

we cheated and bought a lemon cake mix.

We enhanced the mix with lemon juice,

a couple of splashes of lemoncello

and lemon zest.

To add to the lemony flavor we

added lemon curd in a

hollowed out spot in the cupcake.

(Which we did make from scratch)

Now we're speaking lemon.

Adding some more lemoncello and 

lemon zest to the buttercream frosting

topped off the romantic notion

of sitting in a sunny piazza in Florence sipping lemoncello.

I'm stretching that a little.

Now the most amazing part

was that all of the co-workers thought

this was the "best" cupcake we had

ever made.

Really?

With a cake mix?

Who would have guessed.

Maybe I put in more than a splash of

lemoncello.

 Until Next Time-