Sweet Tea Cupcakes with Lemon Sweet Tea Frosting

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Loved the cupcakes, but the recipe is off. You need to use 1 cup of milk to steep the teabags (I used 6 large Lipton bags, great flavor!, then add more milk after you strain the teabags to bring it back to 1 full cup. The baking time is too long, you will dry the cupcakes out if you go 20 minutes.

The proportions in the frosting recipe are WAY WAY off. Use 1 stick of unsalted butter & 2 cups of confectioner's sugar (measure, then sift into butter. If you want a large batch of icing, use 2 sticks of butter and 4 cups of sugar. You can also use shortening (crisco in place of the butter to tone down the butter taste and let the tea & lemon flavors shine more.

Overall, a good recipe, but needs tweaks to make it perfect.

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I used just 6 tea bags (Lipton black tea with lemon and that was more than enough to get really nice, characteristic tea flavor in the cake. Just perfect! Frosting needs more lemon then in the recipe to be really lemon :- but its anyway very good. On the frosting I spread crushed pistachios and that was one of the greatest cupcakes I ever eat! Recommend for those who look for original flavours

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I used 1 cup of milk and put 7 large black tea bags in it. I still did not feel there was enough tea flavor in the cake. I will try again using ten large tea bags, hopefully that will give the flavor I am looking for. I liked the icing but used lemon extract and four packets of true lemon to really kick up the flavor.

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I love these cupcakes, but I do change the recipe a little. I use a little more than 3/4 c. milk; otherwise, there's not enough of the tea mixture for batter and frosting. I use a mixture of black tea bags: 2 reg., 4 ea. decaf lemon and decaf orange/spice. They come out with a spiced cake-type flavor. I also add 5-6 drops of lemon extract in the frosting.

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i liked the cake , the frosting to me did not have enough lemon taste to it. i added a little bit of the squeezed juice to the frosting but not a lot. when i tried the frosting i was like YUK but when you eat the frosting and the cake together they are very good. so dont try the frosting without the cake. i would make this again. everyone liked them..they disappeared.

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The cupcakes were easy to make and taste great. I substituted self-rising flour for baking soda and salt and they still turned out great! However, the frosting was difficult and turned out horrible and runny.

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After reading the reviews we decided to strengthen the tea flavor. So instead of using tea bags we used loose black tea and we boiled it in the milk (make sure to strain it. We also replaced the oil with butter.

The frosting ended up being really runny, so you might have to add more powdered sugar than it calls for.

But with the adjustments we made, these ended up being quite tasty. Especially the frosting.

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love these cupcakes the tea and lemon flavours work reall well in the frosting, the tea flavour could have been a little stronger the cake but overall i love theses cupcakes

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I just love these cupcakes!

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Bad...just bad!