Name: Lemon Bites
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Ingredients: 1 box lemon cake mix; 1 box vanilla instant pudding; 4 eggs; ¾ cup butter (melted); 2 cups powdered sugar; 3-4 tablespoons milk; 2 tablespoons lemon juice

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Lemon Bites are delicious bite-sized lemon cupcakes topped off with homemade lemon glaze. Many times referred to as Lemon Blossoms, these mini lemon cupcakes are delicious bite-sized treats made with a lemon cake mix and vanilla pudding mix! A mini muffin pan, donut pan, or even a mini bundt cake pan is used to bake these amazing mini lemon cakes. The easy lemon glaze soaks into the mini cupcakes, donuts, or mini bundts and is a simple, incredibly delicious lemon cake mix recipe!

Lemon Blossoms or lemon bites are mini lemon cupcakes that start with a lemon cake mix and vanilla pudding mix and topped with a lemon glaze.

This recipe is very similar to Paula Deen's lemon blossoms, but of course, I can't help using a cake mix and changing up an already good recipe. I love using cake mixes to make easy dessert recipes. These mini lemon cupcakes taste just like a lemon drop bite.

Ingredients for Lemon Blossoms

To make these amazing lemon bites, you will just need a few ingredients.

Lemon Cake Mix - A Lemon cake mix is what makes this recipe so so easy. If you can't find one, a butter cake mix with lemon zest or substitute the vanilla pudding for lemon.
Vanilla Pudding Mix - With the lemon cake mix, you will want to use a vanilla pudding. But if you can't find a lemon cake mix, use lemon pudding with the white or butter cake mix.
Eggs - Whole large eggs set out to room temperature.
Butter - The real butter deal. You will be melting the butter so no need to get it up to room temperature.
Milk - 2% milk is what I used in the recipe but any kind can work.
Powdered Sugar - Confectioners sugar to make that amazing lemon glaze for the top of the lemon bites.
Lemon Juice - Fresh squeezed is what I recommend but the bottled lemon juice can work too.

How to Make Lemon Drop Bites

Making these simple lemon blossoms starts by mixing the lemon cake mix and vanilla pudding together in a large bowl. Then add the eggs and melted butter to the mixture. Beat the liquids and dry ingredients together. The batter will be fairly thick.

Spray with cooking spray a mini cupcake pan, donut pan, or mini bundt cake pan to make these lemon bites. My go-to for this recipe is the mini cupcake pan. I also love the silicone mini cupcake pans. However, the silicon pans to be more shallow than the metal mini cupcakes pans. Let me tell you, do not fill the cupcake tins. They will grow as they bake. Half to three-quarters full will be plenty of fill.

Bake the mini cupcakes for 12 minutes at 350°. My oven doesn't bake evenly so I turn the pan halfway through baking.

While the mini lemon drop cupcakes are baking, make the lemon glaze. Make the glaze by mixing the milk, lemon juice, and powdered sugar.

The lemon bites will be sponge or springy to the touch when they are done. Let cool for several minutes and remove from the pan.

Then dip the tops of the mini cupcakes in the lemon glaze. Set the lemon blossoms on a cooling rack or plate.

Dipping mini lemon cupcakes in lemon glaze.

Let the lemon bites cool and the glaze harden.

Variations to the Lemon Mini Muffins

If you are loving these lemon mini muffins and want to try other flavor combinations, here are some ideas for cake mix muffin bites.

Apple Cider Donut Muffins - Use a spice cake mix or yellow cake mix with apple cider for the apple cider donut mini muffins. Get the exact apple cider donut recipe.
Birthday Cake Muffins - Use a white cake mix and vanilla pudding and add sprinkles to make Birthday cake mini muffins.
Banana Nut Muffins - Use a yellow cake mix and banana pudding or mashed bananas and chopped walnuts for the bite-sized banana muffins.

Other Cake Mix Recipes to Try:

I love the easiness baking with a cake mix provides. A yellow cake mix is the perfect base for so many great recipes. Here are some of my favorite cake mix recipes.

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Lemon Bites

Lemon Blossoms or lemon bites are mini lemon cupcakes that start with a lemon cake mix and vanilla pudding mix and topped with a lemon glaze.

4.89 from 9 votes

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cake mix, Easy, Lemon Blossoms

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 12

Total Time: 22

Servings: mini cupcakes

Calories: 98kcal

Author: Leah Beyer

Ingredients

1 box lemon cake mix
1 box vanilla instant pudding
4 eggs
¾ cup butter melted
2 cups powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°.
Mix the cake mix and pudding mix together. Then add the melted butter and eggs.
Beat for at least 1 minute. Batter will be thick.
Spray mini cupcake pan with cooking spray. Fill the muffin tins half full with batter.
Bake for 12-minutes. Turn halfway through if the oven bakes unevenly.
Prepare the lemon glaze by mixing the powdered sugar, milk, and lemon juice together. Add more milk if the glaze is too thick. Add more powdered sugar if too runny.
When the bites are bakes, let cool for five minutes. Then remove from the pan by running a knife around the tin and then dip into the lemon glaze.
Let cool and then enjoy.

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A working mom of two very active teenagers. My husband and I gave up running the 80-cow dairy farm that also included a couple of hundred acres of corn and soybeans to both work to support the agricultural industry. We still have about 20 head of dairy heifers and cows to help my kids appreciate the effort it takes to raise livestock. I consider myself a foodie as I love cooking and experimenting with recipes. My family just wishes I would make the same thing twice. Find my other blog, FarmWifeDrinks.com for all things cocktails.