Zingy Lemon Cupcakes Recipes

ZINGY LEMON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180 degrees.
• Using a whisk, beat together the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs, flour (sifted), milk and the zest of the two lemons and a little squeeze of juice.
• Mix everything until it is a smooth mixture.
• Spoon one and a half tea spoons of the mix into the cake cases.
• Bake in the oven for 10-15 mins.
• While they are cooking, make the icing by whisking the butter in a bowl. Then add the icing sugar and mix.
• Add the zest if any remaining lemon zest and however much of the rest of lemon juice. (depending how zingy you want them to be)
• Put the cakes on a cooling rack to cool. When they have finished cooling, pipe or spread the icing in to the cakes.
• You could add a lemon flavour sweet of a small pice of chopped up lemon if wanted. And there you have it, one batch of delicious Zingy lemon cupcakes ready to take to a party or picnic or just to put in a box to save for another day. Make sure you have eaten them in a week or they won't taste as good as they are meant to.

LEMON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 30 cupcake pan cups with paper liners.
• Sift the self-rising flour and salt together in a bowl. In another bowl, beat the unsalted butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating each egg until incorporated before adding the next. Mix in the vanilla extract and lemon zest.
• Gently beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture, one third at a time, alternating with half the milk and half the lemon juice after each of the first 2 additions of flour. Beat until just combined; do not over mix.
• Fill the prepared cupcake liners with batter 3/4 full, and bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 17 minutes. Let the cupcakes cool in the pans for about 10 minutes before removing them to finish cooling on a rack.
• To make the icing, beat the cream in a chilled bowl with an electric mixer set on Low until the cream begins to thicken. Add the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice, a little at a time, beating after each addition, until fully incorporated. Increase the mixer speed to High, and beat until the icing forms soft peaks, about 5 minutes. Spread on the cooled cupcakes. Refrigerate leftovers.

ZINGY LEMON RASPBERRY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Line cupcake pans with paper liners and spray the liners with non-stick spray. (It makes the liners peel off easier.).
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and salt in an electric mixer. Mix on low speed until combined.
• Add the butter, mixing until just coated with flour.
• In a bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, lemon juice and vanilla.
• With the mixer on medium speed, add the wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down the sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not over-beat.
• Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about two-thirds full.
• Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Repeat process with remaining batter. 
Should make about 30.
• Raspberry Cream Frosting~ In the electric mixer, beat the cream cheese, butter and jam together until smooth.
• Add the vanilla, salt and food coloring; mix until an even colored pink is reached.
• Turn the mixer on low and add the powdered sugar a little at a time to avoid a sugar cloud. Then turn the mixer up until the frosting is smooth.
• Place in the refrigerator until and cupcakes are cooled and ready to be frosted.
• Once the cupcakes are completely cool, frost the cupcakes and garnish with fresh raspberries.
• Makes 30 cupcakes.