These Citrus Cupcakes are the best cupcakes I have ever made! And I’m pretty good at baking cupcakes. I tweaked my traditional cupcake recipe and used a secret ingredient that made these super soft and fluffy. I was excited to share these with my kids who I knew would be ready for a yummy snack after some energetic outdoor play. This post is sponsored by Tampico Beverages, but all opinions are my own.
The secret to these citrus cupcakes is Tampico Citrus Punch! It gives the cupcakes a burst of citrus flavor while making them super moist and fluffy! As an added bonus, you can enjoy drinking the Tampico Citrus Punch that you will have left over.
Since 1989, Tampico Beverages, Inc. has been one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high quality juice drinks. They have a variety drink flavors available in multiple sizes.
To make these delicious citrus cupcakes, simply mix the Tampico Citrus Punch into the batter. It’s that easy!
Frost the cupcakes with your favorite frosting (I used store bought – don’t tell!) and add an orange slice on top.
These citrus cupcakes made with Tampico will make a perfect after school snack for my kids. When they get home from school, I like to give them some time to play and decompress. They are always hungry after a play session.
One of my kids’ favorite ways to decompress after school is to get outside, use their imaginations and engage in some active pretend play. My kids love the Captain Underpants book series and they often like to pretend they are superheros. You can imagine their excitement when they heard that Tampico is partnering with DreamWorks’ upcoming movie, Captain Underpants! The movie hits theaters June 2nd, 2017 and you can bet we will be in the audience.
Inspired by the upcoming Captain Underpants movie, they found some capes in our dress up bin (if you don’t have any, a towel works too) and got ready to battle it out.
My kids wanted some superhero masks, which took all of 5 minutes to make. Simply draw a mask large enough for your child’s face and cut some eye holes so that they can see. Tie some yarn to holes on the side of the mask and secure. Voilà! Instant superhero.
All this running around and saving the world made the kids tired and hungry. They headed inside to enjoy the citrus cupcakes I made and some refreshing Tampico Citrus Punch.
It was a hit all the way around. Let’s face, it – saving the world is tough work, and a delicious snack with Tampico Beverages is just what my kids needed to “Unbottle Laffter” and refuel!
Tampico will be having some Facebook Superhero contests on their facebook page. Entry in the contest gives you a link to the Captain Underpants Prank Soundboard and an entry into the sweepstakes for the grand prize (two tablets—one for you and one for your little superheros!). There will also be prizes like family 4-packs of movie tickets. These contests are a great way to get your family involved in the fun of Tampico and Dreamworks’ Captain Underpants! Like and follow Tampico on Facebook and stay tuned to learn more! https://www.facebook.com/drinktampico/.
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cups of flour
- 1½ teaspoon of baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Tampico Citrus Punch
- Orange slices cut into quarters
- Preheat oven to 375. Prepare cupcake pan with paper cupcake cups.
- Combine melted butter and sugar with a mixer. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix for 2 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Alternate adding flour mix and Tampico Citrus Punch to butter and sugar mixture in mixer while continuously mixing. Mix for 3-4 minutes.
- Fill each cupcake cup ¾ full.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Mix some orange food coloring into vanilla frosting and pipe onto the cooled cupcakes. Add ¼ of an orange slice to the top of each frosted cupcake.
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Cupcakes always go over really well with my kids. I know for a fact that they would love your citrus cupcakes!!
Wow.. these citrus cupcakes look delicious.
Okay, that icing on the citrus cupcakes looks so smooth and delicious! My nieces would love thee!
These cupcakes are adorable! I haven’t really experimenting much with citrus in baking but I’m going to give it a try!
Yummy! I’d like to try these! I love cupcakes and so do my kiddos so I’m sure they would be a hit.
These cupcakes sound amazing! I love, love, love anything citrus and I have been known to enjoy cupcakes 🙂 What a great combo!
I love your girls capes and masks! I would never have thought to use a punch in my cupcakes! What a great idea!
Citrus flavours are one of my favourites so these sound so yummy. I always choose orange or lemon tasting things if I have a choice x
I don’t think I’ve ever had Tampico, but I do love citrus drinks and citrus inspired foods. I love the bright colored icing, It’s so festive for spring and for celebrating the release of Captain Underpants the movie.
Oh wow this looks delicious! My husband would love this! Definitely going to save this to make for him
yummy! these looks like so much fun, and my kids LOVE tampico! I will def be trying these this summer!
We love Tampico too! These cupcakes look so delicious and citrus tastes so good in a cake!
Omg how cute are these cupcakes!!!! I just love orange everything so I will have to add your cupcake recipe to my list of things to bake!!!
You are a lady after my own heart! I LOVE to change up the liquids in my cakes, changing milks, juices, waters, all kinds of goodness. It is so creative and sometimes you get a winner, just like your orange cupcakes!
I have some fresh oranges in my refrigerator. I should get working. These cup cakes look so delicious.
I have never had an orange cupcake but it sounds interesting. Adding juice is so unique. I want to try it with other flavors.
That’s a beautiful orange color! I love how bright it is. Citrus is one of my favorite flavors during Spring and Summer! It’s really fresh!
Oh my taste buds, how they salivate after seeing these cupcakes!! Your kids look so cute in the costumes, true fans of Captain Underpants I can see.
These cakes look so yummy! I love the colouring of the icing, they look so enticing. I’ve never really had orange flavoured cakes before so would love to try them.
These look wonderful. My daughters don’t really care for orange flavor but I bet I could change their minds with these cupcakes.
This is such a creative recipe. It’s nice to find a simple way to put a creative twist on a recipe. My boys would love this.
Love these. They look good enough to eat RIGHT NOW! Cupcakes are the perfect side treat. It’s small although one is not just enough. Catch 22.