Cupcakes!

I tried out a recipe for cupcakes for Valentine's Day and am just getting around to sharing it.

I found this recipe on Home Made Simple. I found the icing recipe on allrecipes.com and I love this icing! It's a thinner consistency so it would be great as a glaze or on cupcakes and cakes! It is wonderful.

Strawberry Preserves Cupcakes

1 pkg. moist strawberry cake mix

2 cups sour cream

3 eggs

1/4 cup water

1/3 cup strawberry preserves

24 paper cupcake liners

1. Preheat oven to 350 and line cupcake pans with papers.

2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, sour cream, eggs, and water.

3. Stir with a spoon and or whisk until well blended. (I just used my mixer)

4. Fill muffin pans 1/2 full with batter.

5. Using a spoon, make a slight indention in the center of each cup; fill with a heaping 1/2 teaspoon of strawberry preserves.

6. Spoon remaining batter evenly over each filled cup; covering preserves. (Muffin cups should be about 3/4 full).

7. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. If toothpick goes through the preserves, it won't come out clean. Duh!

8. Cool for 1 minute and remove from pan. Cool completely before adding icing. Store in the refrigerator.

Sour Cream Frosting

4 T butter, softened

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 t vanilla extract

1/2 t lemon juice

1/4 t salt

1 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar - powdered sugar

In a medium bowl, mix together the butter sour cream, lemon juice and salt. Stir in powdered sugar and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.