Recently, I finished reading the book, "Kiss My Cupcake" by Helena Hunting and I got inspired to make cupcakes. In the novel, the protagonist, Blaire, makes Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting, so I thought I'd make some in tribute to the book. The character also makes them with a lemon curd filling, but I thought these would be lemony enough without it and sprinkled some lemon zest on top of each cupcake on top.
Initially, I made a batch of lemon cream cheese frosting, but it only made a small amount proportionate to the amount of cupcakes it made, so I thought I'd make buttercream for the second frosting round. The recipe made 12 regular-sized cupcakes, as well as 24 mini cupcakes and took 18 min in the oven at 350F for both batches. For the lemon buttercream frosting, I used the recipe below and then added 1/4 cup of lemon zest to make it lemony.
In terms of modifications, I would recommend making sure that both the cream cheese and butter is cold when making the cream cheese frosting, as I found it was a bit difficult to get the right consistency when I used them at room temperature. Overall, this recipe turned out fairly well, however, I found the buttercream frosting to work out better than the cream cheese frosting, so keep that in mind if you do end up making these cupcakes. Enjoy :)
Here is the name of the cookbook, "The Cupcake Diaries" by Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, you can buy it at Amazon.ca, Indigo.ca, or Amazon.com.
Here is the link for the buttercream recipe: allrecipes.com
Photos by: (c) 2020 Lauren Tang
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