Lauren's Luscious Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

All the credit for this recipe goes to Lauren. She did all the experimentation and figured everything out. All I did was adapt it for high altitude. These are some YUMMY cupcakes. They are sweet and tart and delicious and SUPER EASY.

Here's her original recipe and the EggFreeAtAltitude© adaptation all in one spot:

Mix 1½ cups carbonated lemonade (a 12 oz. can) with on boxed white cake mix. The lemonade MUST be carbonated for this to work. (High altitude adjustment: add ¼ cup flour)

Add one small pouch of Kool-Ade Unsweetened Pink Lemonade drink powder.

Add 1 tsp vanilla.

Beat with hand mixer on low speed for about 2 minutes.

Fill 18 cupcakes and bake according to box. Both Lauren and I had to bake these a little longer than suggested to get them lightly brown around the edges.

Let the cupcakes cool completely.

Mix half of a pouch of Kool-Ade Unsweetened Pink Lemonade drink powder into a can of vanilla frosting. 

Frost. Eat. Yum.

Throw away the remaining half pouch of drink mix, because only crazy hoarders keep little bits of cheap drink mix. ( Do you think Lauren was trying to tell me something???)