These cool summer treats bring an elegant touch to any party. All it takes are baked cupcakes, frosting, food coloring and scissors to make these refreshing cupcake towers. They look great and are easy to make. Because these are such tall drinks, it is best to assemble them after you arrive at your destination.
- 1 box (18.25 ounces) Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Lemon Supreme Cake Mix
- 1 can (16 ounces) Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Lemon Supreme Frosting
- 4 drops yellow food coloring
- 8 pieces green gum sticks, spearmint gum
- 8 small lemon candy slices
- 4 green straws cut in half crosswise
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 24 muffin cups with 2 yellow paper liners in each cup. Prepare the cake mix according to package directions. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake until cupcakes are lightly golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 18 to 21 minutes. Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack and cool completely.
- Tint the lemon frosting a brighter yellow with the food coloring – stir to blend well. Spread the frosting on top of all of the cupcakes and make smooth, making sure to keep the double paper liners in place.
- Use a pair of craft scissors (or regular scissors) to cut the gum slices into 16 leaf shapes. Pinch one narrow end to make the leaves. Press a lemon slice, 2 leaves and a straw on top of 8 of the cupcakes.
- Arrange a tower of 3 cupcakes stacked on top of each other, ending in a cupcake with the straw to create the glass. (If traveling with the cupcakes do not assemble until you are at the location.) Press the cupcakes into the frosting to secure.
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karenkay60 (1 discussion) on Jul 30, 2012 at 01:30 PM
RE: adding pudding to the cake: use 4-serv size Jell-o instant pudding, lemon flavor, add to the dry ingredients. Use 1/3 cup oil, 4-eggs, & 1-1/4 cup liquid: combo of water and lemon juice, as suits your taste. I also add 1 teaspoon each of good vanilla & lemon extracts, and a teaspoon or more of lemon zest. If you love lemon, this cake is for you. For my Man, I add much more lemon juice & zest...he cannot get enough lemon.
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Nikkifin (1 discussion) on Apr 3, 2012 at 11:51 PM
I have made these but my mom showed me years before this recipe. We filled them with lemon jello instant pudding. And used half water half lemon for the water recipe to give it that extra punch. also added a couple drops of lemon juice to the frosting. bout three. They are our summer favorites.
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cathleendaisey (24 discussions) on Mar 21, 2012 at 02:32 PM
omg my spelling shoud be this and savanah
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cathleendaisey (24 discussions) on Mar 21, 2012 at 02:31 PM
this were great but instead of the gum sticks, i crumbled the savvanah smiles cookies from the girl scouts and put that on top everyone went crazy
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1mamiof3 (1 discussion) on Jan 19, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Yum looks delicious and so simple to make.
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Cherri Brown (1 discussion) on Sep 13, 2011 at 11:29 PM
I made these and they were such a hit. I had fresh mint in the garden so I used that for the leaf instead of the gum. Also, I did not stack the cupcakes but they were fantastic just the same.
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tanika (11 discussions) on Dec 23, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I add lemon juice in place of some of the water. I tried making the gum leaves. it did not work for me. But the cake and concept is great
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heathabakes (7 discussions) on Jun 23, 2010 at 02:15 PM
SO cute and easy. The leaves are made of spearmint gum sticks - genius!!!
Comment by: shirley b (9 discussions) on Jun 30, 2010 at 05:58 PM
If you want a really lemon flavor, I buy the lemon flavored cake mix, add 1 package instant lemon pudding along with 1/4 cup of key lime juice., and then frost cake with the lemon flavored frosting. Delicious!
Comment by: marlita2000 (3 discussions) on Jul 11, 2010 at 05:32 PM
Do you just add the pudding to the cake mix? Or do you make the pudding and put in between the cake layers? I'm a newbie to baking, I need all the help I can get. :)
Comment by: mk1549 (no discussions) on Jul 12, 2010 at 02:20 AM
You don't make the pudding you just add the dry mix along with the lemon juice to the cake mix
Comment by: liv2bake (2 discussions) on Jul 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Is it the small box of pudding?
