These lavender berry cupcakes are the perfect colorful treat to make this Easter! Made with a vanilla lavender cake filled with juicy berry preserves and topped with pastel buttercream, these cupcakes are a fun and festive dessert that's perfect to make with the whole family.
Every Easter table needs a fun pop of color, and these lavender berry cupcakes bring the color and the flavor! The cupcakes are made with a soft, moist vanilla lavender cake filled with your favorite berry preserves, and they're topped off with a sweet buttercream frosting that you can customize to be any color you want. The bright, festive pastels really make these cupcakes feel like springtime, and the light, fresh flavors make them taste like springtime, too!
Here are some more sweet spring recipes you'll love: Oatmeal Lavender Scones, Hard Cider Mimosas, and One Bowl Chocolate Banana Brownies.
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Ingredients & Equipment
You’ll need the following ingredients and equipment to make these lavender berry cupcakes:
- Cupcake pan
- Large cookie scoop
- Flour
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Powdered sugar
- Eggs
- Milk
- Neutral oil
- Vanilla extract
- Lavender
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Food coloring
Customize This Recipe!
There are a few different ways you can customize this recipe:
- Use your favorite berries. The best part about a fillable cupcake is that you can choose your own filling! Use raspberry preserves, blueberries or blackberries, or try a mixture of a few flavors!
- Frost how you want. You don't have to use a specific piping tip if you don't have any on hand - you can use an offset spatula to make smooth swirls, or even press your cupcakes down onto parchment paper to make a super flat surface!
Kitchen Tips:
- Utilize mise en place! Make sure you have all of your ingredients prepped and ready before you begin making this recipe - it will help save you time and keep you organized.
- Use a cookie scoop. To make every cupcake the same size and get the most out of your batter, use a cookie scoop when portioning your cupcakes.
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Lavender Berry Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the cupcakes:
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temp
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg white
- 2 tablespoon neutral oil
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lavender
- ½ cup whole milk
For the filling:
- 12 tablespoon berry preserves
For the frosting:
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temp
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- assorted food coloring
Instructions
For the cupcakes:
- Preheat your oven to 350ºF and prepare a cupcake tin with 12 paper liners.
- In a medium bowl, mix your flour, baking powder, and salt together and set aside.
- In the bowl of a standard mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on medium speed until fluffy.
- Add the egg and egg white and mix until combined, then add the oil, vanilla, and lavender and mix until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Lastly, add the milk and mix on low-medium speed until just combined.
- Use a ½ cup cookie scoop to portion your cupcake batter into each paper liner. Bake cupcakes for about 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cupcakes cool completely before filling.
For the filling:
- Once cupcakes are cooled, take a knife and cut a small circle of cake out of the center of each cupcake.
- Spoon in the berry preserves and either leave the cupcake open or place the tops back over the preserves before frosting.
For the frosting:
- In the bowl of a standard mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Add the powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing until fully combined and smooth.
- Add the milk and vanilla extract to thin the frosting slightly, mixing until fully combined.
- If you're adding more than one food coloring, divide your frosting and mix in your colors fully.
- Frost your cupcakes as desired and serve!
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