Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes {With Cream Cheese Frosting}

The best, soft, moist, fluffy, easy lemon blueberry cupcakes recipe with cream cheese frosting, homemade with simple ingredients. Packed with fresh blueberries. Perfect dessert for Summer parties!

*Thank you Cake Pop Stand Co. for sending me a free cupcake stand to use in this post. As always, all opinions are mine.*

I love to use berries in baking. They add so much flavor, moisture and definitely a pop of color. These Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes and Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes and even this fancy French Clafoutis With Cherries and Raspberries are a family favorite along with today's recipe.

Jump to:

• Key ingredients
• Variations
• How to make easy lemon blueberry cupcakes recipe from scratch?
• Tips and techniques
• Recipe FAQs
• Storage
• More blueberry desserts
• Recipe

Key ingredients

Variations

• Pair with other frosting flavors. Use my Blackberry Frosting Recipe and replace blackberries with blueberries to make blueberry frosting.
• Fill them with jams and preserves or my custard and my pudding. How to Make Filled Cupcakes (Stuffed Cupcakes)
• Cake mix version- Prepare cupcake batter, as per box instructions. Then, coat 1 cup blueberries in some all-purpose flour and stir them gently into the batter. Pour batter into cupcake liners and bake until golden brown and set.
• Blueberry orange flavor- Use orange zest and orange extract instead of lemon/lime zest and lemon/lime extract. You can also take it a step further and top the cupcakes with Orange Buttercream Frosting and fill with orange marmalade.

How to make easy lemon blueberry cupcakes recipe from scratch?

1. In one bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and keep aside.
2. In another bowl,  mix together egg, butter, whole milk, buttermilk, zests, extracts.
3. Dump the dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix until just combined.
4. In another bowl, toss the blueberries and a little flour togethers.
5. Fold these coated blueberries into the cake batter.
6. Pour batter in cupcake liners.
7. Bake and frost it in icing. Enjoy!

Tips and techniques

• If  you are NOT fond of limes or find their flavor too strong, you can use orange zest or just lemon zest.
• All ingredients must be at ROOM TEMPERATURE so they blend together smoothly.
• I really DON'T recommend making blueberry cupcakes with frozen blueberries since they release too much juice during baking, which makes the texture of cupcakes very soggy.
• You must COAT the blueberries in flour to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of cupcakes. Learn more about this baking tip here in this post: How to Stop Chocolate Chips From Sinking.
• Recipe can easily be DOUBLED.

Recipe FAQs

Storage

• Refrigerate-
• Freeze-
• Room temperature-
• Make ahead-

More blueberry desserts

• Blueberry Pie Filling
• Easy Chocolate Blueberry Truffles
• Lemon Blueberry Muffins (With Glaze)
• Chocolate Covered Blueberries
• Blueberry Dump Cake (With Cake Mix)
• Lemon Blueberry Waffles (Fresh or Frozen)
• Lemon Blueberry Pancakes (So Fluffy)

Recipe

Now, allow me to share a fun product with all of you. I recently received this 3 tier cupcake stand to review from my friend Janine at Cake Pop Stand Co and it's just awesome! It's a beautiful way to display 12 cupcakes, especially at dessert tables. There are 12 separate compartments for your cupcakes, which means they won't be sliding around and your frosting won't get messed up. It's really easy to store because the pieces are flat and can be taken apart and put back together in just a few seconds. It's also very easy to clean. Just wipe with soap and water. It comes in 2 colors: black and white, but you can also customize the design of this stand with your logo, which is so cool!