Another long-overdue post from uh, back in April. >_>
Trish made me cupcakes for my birthday! :] (The recipe was stolen from here.)
Lemon Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting
Ingredients:
(Cupcakes)
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups whole milk
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 egg whites
- zest from 2 lemons
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 8 tbsp butter
- 1/2 tsp lemon extract
(Frosting)
- 4 tbsp butter
- powdered sugar
- strawberry jam (although you could probably use any jam you wanted?)
Instructions:
- (Cupcakes) Preheat oven to 350. Wash and zest lemon in large bowl with the sugar. Rub zest with sugar until sugar is moist.
- Separate egg whites into a small bowl and mix with milk. Add butter to sugar and lemon zest and beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and lemon juice and keep beating.
- Sift in 1/3 dry ingredients. Mix. Add half the milk and eggs. Mix again. Continue alternating dry and wet ingredients until everything’s incorporated and mixed well.
- Divide batter into ~24 muffin cups and bake for 18-22 minutes.
- (Frosting) Beat butter with powdered sugar and jam until fluffy. Spread onto cupcakes and serve!
