Fruit Pizza Cupcakes

By srumbel

If you like Fruit Pizza, you’ll love these Summery Fruit Pizza Cupcakes!! Sugar cookie flavored cake topped with cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit is the perfect Summer dessert. They’ll look gorgeous on your dessert table.
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Ingredients

• Frosting:
• 2 sticks salted butter, slightly softened
• 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp lemon extract
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 2 sticks salted butter, softened to room temperature
• 8 oz block of cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• 6 cups powdered sugar
• Variety of fresh fruit -- I used grapes, blueberries, strawberries and kiwi

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Line 24 muffin tins with cupcake liners and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
In the bowl of a mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Add vanilla and lemon extracts.
With the mixer on medium low, add flour and milk alternately, starting and ending with flour mixture and scraping the bowl as needed. Fill muffin tins 2/3 full.
Bake for about 15 minutes or until center of cupcakes spring back when lightly touched. Remove from oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.
Prepare frosting: In the bowl of your mixer, beat butter, cream cheese, and vanilla on medium speed until smooth. With the mixer on low, add powdered sugar a bit at a time, until all has been added. Increase mixer speed to high and beat for one minute.
Frost cupcakes generously. Top with plenty of fresh fruit.

Notes

For best results, frost and top with fruit as close to serving time as possible.