Grandmas lemon cake cupcakes

I love my grandmothers lemon cake. I have been eating it for as long as I can remember. We don't make it often because it does not last in the house for more than two days! That is how fabulous this cake is. She makes it very easy and simple. I decided to step it up a notch and make it almost completely homemade. What makes hers so yummy is the lemon jello mix she puts in it. So listen to this:

Recipie:

Ingredients

Cake:
3 cups flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cups milk
1/2 cups butter (one stick)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 small box lemon jello

Icing:
2-3 lemons and their zest
2 cups powdered sugar

Buttercream:
1 cup butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
Zest of one lemon

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar together, add vanilla then eggs one at a time. Mix well.
In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder, jello mix and zest together.
Alternately add flour mix and milk beginning and ending with flour.
Fill cupcake liners 3/4 the way full.bake for 20-25 minutes.

For icing zest and juice lemons, wisk together with powdered sugar.

Let cupcakes cool for 5 minutes poke holes in the top of the cupcakes with a fork then transfer to a cooling rack. Poor a table spoon of icing over each cupcake. Cool completely.

For lemon buttercream, cream butter
Add vanilla/lemon juice and zest.
Add powdered sugar and beat until desired constancy.
Pipe over top of cooled cupcakes and enjoy :)