Quick Lemon Cupcake Recipe

                                       

Lemon Cupcakes

I have recently started to really enjoy baking and in years to come I hope to get Alfie to help with the fun too! So, here is a simple lemon cupcake recipe but you could remove the lemon ingredients and add different flavourings!

Ingredients:

175g Caster Sugar

175g Self Raising Flour

175g Butter (softened)

1/2 tsp of Baking Powder

3 large eggs

1/2 tsp of Vanilla Extract

Peel of 2 lemons and juice of 1 lemon

Buttercream Icing:

350g Icing Sugar

175g Butter (softened)

Peel of 1 lemon

Juice of 1/2 a lemon 

How to:

Put all the ingredients for the sponge mix in one bowl and use an electric whisk to mix until smooth. Divide mixture into the 12 cupcake cases (usually 3/4 in each case)  and put in a preheated oven of 180 degrees for 20-25 mins or when they are firm and spongy to touch. 

To make the icing put the butter, icing sugar, lemon juice and half the lemon peel in a bowl and prepare to have an icing sugar cloud in your kitchen! Mix until smooth or to required consistency and put in an icing bag and ice away....use the remaining peel to decorate the cupcakes once finished. 

Leave your cupcakes to set and then enjoy! Hope you like them!

Katie xoxo