Last week our mid week hump day post about strange cupcake ideas was so popular that today we bring you another five!  This time it is fruity cupcakes!  All with recipes, so why not try something a *bit* different with one of these fantastic fruity cupcake ideas!

1. Pomegranate Green Tea Cupcakes – How good do these cupcakes look??  The Cupcake Blog is always experimenting and exploring with her baking and in this case played with a green tea recipe.  The full recipe is on her blog, and if you do not like the idea of pomegranate foam, then just replace with normal frosting!

2. Spiced Apple Cupcakes – This is the first time we have featured the blog Cake Batter and Bowl, but I am sure it will not be the last.  These cupcakes are a spice fiesta of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and cloves, apple and topped with cream cheese frosting and a caramel drizzle.  Sounds too good to be true, good thing you can make it yourself!

3. Peanut Butter and Banana Cupcakes with Marshmallow Frosting – So do you get that our fruit recipes are not the norm?  We really are going for recipes that challenge what everyone else is doing! This recipe from Baking Bites certainly does that!  Apparently they turn out fantastic, and just in case you want it to be more peanut butter, they have provided an alternative peanut butter frosting recipe as well!

4. Honey Poached Pear Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pistachio Buttercream – Can I say anything more than that these make me drool, they look so yum and would be perfect with my morning cup of tea! This recipe comes from ecupcake and was her answer to the challenge to use pear, lemon and a selection of nuts in a cupcake form.

5. Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache – We could end in no other way but with strawberries, so when I saw these stunning looking cupcakes on Annies Eats I knew that I had found fruity cupcake heaven. My only problem would be sacrificing the Champagne required in order to make them.  You could use these cupcakes for any adult party as they are so stunning and stylish you are bound to make a statement.

Click here to see last week’s strange cupcake ideas which featured of all things a brain cupcake and Coca-Cola chocolate cupcakes. And check us out next week for five ‘yucky’ cupcakes.  The ideas that really didn’t work!

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Have you ever noticed that cupcakes get eaten much faster on party tables than any other dessert? Especially kids’ cupcakes.
Cupcakes have become very popular. The cupcake rage has reached America, Australia, England and Canada. These little one-portion cakes have charmed the nations these last few years. Shops dedicated to the small wonders have been popping up everywhere. Each has its own decorating style but all are scrumptious.
Why not have a cupcake party? A cupcake party can start a trend within your circle of friends and family. Served with coffee or tea, they are good conversation starters as they can be topped in very wacky ways. Anything can help stir your imagination for scrumptious icings and toppings.

Strawberry Dipped Chocolate: distopiandreamgirl

It could be a theme cupcake party. Bake a nice fruity batter with fresh fruit added and top with icing to make them look like fruits. It could be a good strawberry cake with a nice creamy pink vanilla icing topped with a fresh strawberry, or my favorite: dip the strawberry in semi-sweet chocolate! Yum. Try a banana cake with chocolate icing and top with a candy banana – chocolate goes so well with banana. It also goes nicely with pear. A moist chocolate cake with chocolate icing and caramelized slices of pear on top wouldn’t be bad either. Lemon meringue cupcakes: wow!

Pig Cupcake: Megpi

The next person on the list having a cupcake party can go with something completely different. Pig cupcakes. Yup, you read right. The pig is a respectful farm animal that suffered a bad reputation for many years. We now know pigs are clean, do not necessarily smell bad and boy are they ever cute! Especially little piglets. Now who doesn’t find a piglet cute? Go crazy with pink icing and candy to make eyes and snouts. Make them happy piglets with smiles or have them play in mud and splash a little chocolate icing on their cheeks! Give them friends and make cat and dog cupcakes for the animal lovers in your circle.

Cupcake Stand Picture: Clever Cupcakes

You can also make traditional cupcakes of vanilla cake and butter cream icing topped with chocolate shavings or colored sprinkles. Place them on a cupcake three-tier stand and voila! You just created easy cupcakes that look fabulous when placed elegantly on a stand. Bet your friends will ask to borrow your cupcake stand for their next party.
Have a kids’ cupcake party. Gather all the children you know, bake a nice batch of cupcakes and supply them with tons of icings of different colors and all sorts of candies and nuts so they can experiment and decorate their own cupcake. They will eat lots of toppings while they work: just a warning.
Cupcakes are fun, versatile and good to eat. They accompany kids’ parties, weddings, christenings, baby showers, Halloween parties, Christmas dinners, Easter brunch, or just plain afternoon tea with friends.
Enjoy baking them, decorating them, see where your imagination will take you with different topping ideas, let your creativity flow and of course, eat them with pleasure. Eating them with people you love will make cupcakes taste even better.

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Laura created these cute apple cupcakes for her daughter’s class on the first day of school this year. She used a simple white cake recipe and buttercream icing died hot pink and used red sprinkles. A piece of an Oreo sipster straw cookie for the stem and green fondant leaves. These are some beautiful apples. Thanks for sharing Laura!

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photo credit: stevendepolo

I wonder if these banana cupcakes taste like bananas as well? I think this is a fun idea for a Monkey or Banana theme party.

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Another favorite candy from the 80′s found it’s way onto my cupcakes last night. Strawberry and grape Nerds make for some fun crunching. Nerds candy would be a fun idea for an 80′s theme party or surprise your friends with this crunchy cupcake decoration.

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I stumbled across a favorite candy from the 80′s while shopping for Halloween candy this week. Runts fruit candy was one of my favs and it looks great on top of a cupcakes too. The banana candy works perfect for a big smiley face cupcake. Do you remember Runts candy?

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These lemon bar cupcakes were served at our Mardi Gras New Orleans theme party this weekend. The recipe came from Real Mom Kitchen and we loved the idea and how the color yellow fit our Mardi Gras theme. I’ve always loved the lemon bars my grandma made for me as a child and thought these lemon bar cupcakes would be fun to try. If I recall correctly, she used a box of Sunkist Lemon bars and added powder sugar after they cooled off. My patience was always tested as I wanted to eat them straight from the oven. These lemon bar cupcakes are zesty and full of lemon flavor…both parents and kids loved them at our party.Tomorrow I will be posting our Mardi Gras King Cake cupcakes that are inspired from the New Orleans King cake recipe.

Lemon Bar Cupcake Recipe (makes 2 dozen cupcakes):

1 box of your favorite lemon cake mix
1 cup sour cream
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup oil
4 eggs
1 small package lemon instant pudding

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, mix together dry ingredients.
3. Add wet ingredients and mix together for several minutes.
4. Lemon bar batter will be fairly thick in consistency.

Bake cupcakes at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. When you remove the cupcakes to cool, you might notice that the cupcakes are indented in the middle. This can be smoothed out when you add your lemon bar buttercream frosting.

Lemon Bar buttercream frosting:

1 cup (2 sticks) soft butter
6-8 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (peel)

1. Use a large mixing bowl and add soft butter.
2. Add 4 cups of sugar
3. Add lemon juice and the zest (peel).
4. Beat until smooth and creamy.
5. Gradually add the remaining sugar (1 cup at a time) until icing is thick enough to spread over lemon bar cupcakes.
6. Store at room temperature.

If you are a fan of traditional lemon bars, you will love this cupcake recipe.

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Strawberry Cupcakes

Can you make a healthy cupcake? Well, this strawberry cupcake will certainly bring some fresh fruit to your next party. Frosting is whip cream and topped with fresh strawberries. This strawberry cupcake can make a wonderful treat for any party and enjoyed when your local grocer has fresh strawberries in stock.

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