Thursday 12 March 2015

Recipe: Lemony Cupcakes

Posted by Lucy at 12:29
If you're from the UK, you'll know that it's Red Nose Day tomorrow, so yesterday afternoon, I decided I'd bake some cupcakes. If I'm totally honest with you, I'm not really a cupcake person, but, boy, these were good!


In case you're thinking "how are these anything to do with Red Nose Day?", I'll explain. The icing was supposed to be red but unfortunately we didn't have much food dye left, so they're orange instead! But, never to worry! Anyway, for those of you who fancy baking these amazing fairy cakes, here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

For the cupcakes
  • 115g butter (diced)
  • 115g caster sugar
  • 115g self-raising flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 lemon (the zest and juice)
For the buttercream icing
  • 150g butter (diced)
  • 300g icing sugar
  • 2tbsp lemon juice
  • Food colouring (optional)
For decoration
  • 12 Maltesers
Method:
  1. First of all, preheat the oven to 180˚C and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
  2. Then, place the butter, caster sugar, eggs, lemon juice and the lemon zest into a large mixing bowl before sifting in the flour, incorporating air by lifting the sieve quite high.
  3. Now, using a handheld mixer, whisk together all the ingredients until the mixture is light and creamy.
  4. Divide the mixture evenly between the twelve muffin cases.
  5. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until well-risen, golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of a cake comes out clean. With oven gloves, remove the muffin tin from the oven and carefully transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack where they can cool.
  6. Meanwhile, prepare the buttercream icing. Simply combine the butter, icing sugar and lemon juice using a hand-held mixer on it's lowest setting (you don't want the icing sugar to go everywhere!).
  7. Once the cakes have cooled completely, spoon the buttercream into a piping bag and swirl on the buttercream for an artistic finish. Or, alternatively, you can just dollop some icing straight onto the cake and use the back of a spoon to spread it evenly across the surface.
  8. Top each cupcake with a Malteser and you're done! Ta-dah!
I hope this recipe has inspired you to put on your apron and get baking for Comic Relief!

Lucy x


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Yum!

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Abril Ponce said...

i nominated you for the versatile blogger award http://the-colorpalette.blogspot.mx/2015/03/the-versatile-blogger-award.html

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