Summertime cupcakes are light, airy, and refreshing. Cupcake flavors of summer are include fruity, citrusy, and tea flavors.
You’ll love infusing fresh fruit into simple syrups, and fillings to create these sweet cupcake flavors!
Strawberry Cupcakes
Strawberry cupcakes are a delicious, fruity cupcake for summertime! Strawberry jam is used to flavor the cupcakes.
Strawberry jam has a concentrated strawberry flavor, therefore it works well to flavor the cupcakes with.
Strawberry cupcakes are frosting with fresh strawberries added to a buttercream frosting.
Since you’re using fresh strawberries, the frosting will have dots of dark red strawberry remnants throughout the icing.
You can make the frosting even more pink by adding a little red liquid food coloring the frosting.
Mango Cupcakes
Mango vanilla cupcakes have a tangy, coconut flavor to them.
Mango vanilla cupcakes are made by adding coconut flavored yogurt to a vanilla cupcake base.
The frosting is a vanilla mango buttercream. Mango reduction is added to a vanilla buttercream base, giving it a fruity, tangy flavored cupcake.
Pina Colada Cupcakes
Pina colada cupcakes are made with a canned coconut milk, pineapple juice, coconut extract, and crushed pineapple pieces.
Pina colada cupcakes are topped with coconut buttercream frosting.
The creamy coconut buttercream is made by adding canned coconut milk and coconut extract to flavor the frosting.
To give the cupcakes a bit of an eye catching glow, shredded coconut is added to the edges of the coconut buttercream frosting.
The pina colada cupcakes are garnished with a piece of pineapple and a maraschino cherry.
Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes
Orange creamsicle cupcakes taste like you’re eating a creamsicle in cupcake form!
These decadent cupcakes are covered in cream cheese orange frosting.
The cupcake itself is flavored with fresh orange juice to give these cupcakes a citrusy, refreshing flavor.
Earl Grey Lavender Cupcakes
Earl grey lavender cupcakes are an earthy, tea flavored cupcake.
Earl grey is infused into warm milk to flavor the cupcakes with. The contents of a couple earl grey tea bags are emptied into the batter as well to flavor the cupcakes.
The frosting is a lavender buttercream frosting made by adding culinary lavender to a vanilla buttercream frosting.
A little blue and pink liquid food coloring is added to the buttercream to create a vibrant purple colored frosting for the cupcakes.
Lemon Cupcakes
Lemon cupcakes are sweet, tart, and will make your mouth water!
Lemon cupcakes are made by adding lemon zest and lemon juice to the cupcake batter.
Lemon cupcakes are incredibly tasty because they are topped with lemon cream cheese icing.
The cream cheese icing is infused with lemon juice and lemon zest, giving you a tangy sweet icing.
The sharpened sweet icing compliments the flavor of the lemon cupcakes making them taste irresistible.
Lemon cupcakes can be garnished with a small piece of lemon.
Blackberry Lavender Chocolate Cupcakes
Blackberry lavender chocolate cupcakes are one of the most flavorful, satisfying cupcakes you will ever try!
The chocolate cupcakes are made with cocoa powder and coffee making them more of a mocha cupcake flavor.
The blackberry lavender buttercream is made by adding culinary lavender and blackberry jam to buttercream frosting.
Blackberry jam is much more concentrated in flavor, therefore using jam to flavor buttercream icing will enhance the blackberry flavor over using the juice from blackberries.
Culinary lavender is also much more potent than lavender that comes your garden.
To garnish your cupcakes, add a couple sprigs of lavender and a blackberry to the tops of the icing.
Key Lime Cupcakes
Key lime cupcakes are tart, sweet, and citrusy.
Key lime cupcakes are filled with sweet key lime filling made of sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, and lime juice.
A small cone is cut in the top of the cupcakes after they are baked, and filled with the savory, citrus key lime filing.
Key lime cupcakes are frosting with cream cheese lime buttercream frosting.
To add a little texture and sweetness to the cupcakes, sprinkle some graham cracker crumble on top.
Sweet Peach Cupcakes
Sweet peach cupcakes is a sweet, refreshing, fruity cupcake.
Sweet peach cupcakes are made by using peach flavored soda as the liquid ingredient to flavor the cupcakes.
Once the batter is made, the cupcakes are layered with batter, a homemade peach compote, and then batter again and baked in the oven.
Sweet peach cupcakes are frosted with vanilla buttercream frosting infused with peach flavored soda.
