Easy Lemon Shell Cupcakes

5 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 box your favorite white or yellow boxed cake mix
  • 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 the needed ingredients for the cake mix
  • 10 medium lemons Squeezed of juice and clean the shells a bit with a teaspoon.
  • 1 Make Lemonade with the juice ...Saving 1/2 cup to use in the cake per instructions... Save the Shells for Cupcake holders. I also added lemon juice to the frosting. Frosting was a combo of leftover Lemon frosting and I whipped that with a bought tub of le

Directions

  1. 1
    Mix cake ..using 1/2 cup lemon juice with half of the liquid called for in the directions.
  2. 2
    Set the lemon cups in the muffin pan and fill to one third full with the cake mix batter ...Place in preheated oven per directions...bake per directions.
  3. 3
    Mine tested done at 23 min at 350F.
  4. 4
    I also had enuf batter leftover to make a small cake.
  5. 5
    I used Meyer Lemons fresh picked from my tree.
  6. 6
    Well washed before squeezing.
  7. 7
    I also found the cooked shells quite edible.
  8. 8
    Cooked they are soft.
  9. 9
    I didn't think they were bitter either....Meyers are thin skinned and much sweeter than regular lemons.

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