Lemon Cupcakes With Cool Whip Icing

When I'm in the mood for cupcakes (when am I not?) I almost always go for some variation of chocolate or caramel, but I made these lemon cupcakes for a birthday celebration and I'm hooked. I used this recipe for the cupcake (it may look familiar as I used the icing for my latest macarons), and decided to swap the strawberry buttercream for a tried and true favourite: my mom's cool whip icing. This icing is honestly one of the bests, it is very light and not as sweet as traditional icing. I have vidid memories of my mom baking cakes and cupcakes for birthday parties from my elementary school days, and this icing was almost always present. 

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces of Cool Whip  
• 1/4 cup of icing sugar
• 1 cup of Milk
• 1 package of Instant Pudding mix in flavour of choice (I used vanilla) 

Directions:

1. Beat together pudding mix, milk and icing sugar
2. Fold in Cool Whip 
3. Optional: I added 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice and lemon peel shavings to compliment the lemon flavour of the cake

{These darling cupcake cups were found at Winners}