Lemon Iced Cupcakes
Easy and delicious Lemon Iced Cupcakes
These yummy Lemon Iced Cupcakes are great for bake sales and parties and super easy to make.
TOP TIPS FOR MAKING LEMON CUPCAKES
- Decorate with sprinkles for party ready cupcakes.
- If you don't like buttercream icing, why not make a drizzle topping by mixing a couple of tablespoons of sugar with the juice of 1 lemon and spoon over the cupcakes as soon as they come out of the oven.
OTHER CUPCAKE RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE
- Carrot and Lime Cupcakes from Jam and Clotted Cream
- Vanilla Fudge Cupcakes from Jam and Clotted Cream
- Vanilla Cupcakes from Jam and Clotted Cream
LEMON ICED CUPCAKES
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Lemon Iced Cupcakes
prep time: 10 MINScook time: 10 MINStotal time: 20 mins
A Lemon Iced Cupcake recipe
ingredients:
- 125g Butter
- 125g Caster Sugar
- 1 TSP Lemon Zest
- 2 Beaten Eggs
- 1/4 TSP Baking Powder
- 150g Plain Flour
- For the icing:
- 150g Icing Sugar
- 75g Butter, softened
- 1 TSP Lemon Zest
- 2 TSP Lemon Juice
instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180°c (160° fan). Line a bun tin with 8 cupcake cases.
- Cream together the butter, sugar and lemon zest.
- Beat in the eggs then fold in the flour and baking powder. Spoon the mixture into the cases and bake for minutes.
- While the cupcakes are cooling make the icing. Use an electric hand whisk to cream the icing sugar and butter together then add the lemon zest and juice to form a soft icing consistency.
- Pipe the icing onto the cooled cupcakes.
These look lovely. I love the zingy taste of lemon
ReplyDeleteI love lemon and these look absolutely delicious.
ReplyDeleteOoh lemon my favourite cake flavour! They look great and so easy to make!
ReplyDeleteOh a light lemon cupcake is one of the greatest pleasures on earth. Yum!
ReplyDeleteThey sound so light and yunmmy!
ReplyDeleteLemon cupcakes, what a special treat! They look fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThe cupcakes look more than divine, they look delicious! I adore cupcakes!
ReplyDeleteHi Holler. I did large cupcakes and they took 20 minutes, the smaller fairy cakes would only take 10 (or perhaps even 8)
ReplyDeleteThese look delish, Beth. I love lemony cakes.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on trying a roast potato, roasties are my absolute faves.
Beth:
ReplyDeleteWe just finished your roasted sausage pasta and tomatoes and we loved it! The whole house smells so good. Thanks for a great recipe.
They are so pretty! I love the look and sound of these. Definitely trying soon!
ReplyDeleteThese sound terrific. I love lemon baked goods--probably why my blog has an entire tag for them. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect little treat. I love lemon sweets and this cupcake looks wonderful.
ReplyDeleteyum, I love lemon cupcakes
ReplyDeleteThose cupcakes look great! I've never tried making lemon cupcakes at home, but this makes me think I really should!
ReplyDeleteThe cupcakes look wonderful. The book and the programme Bake were well worth waiting for.
ReplyDeleteThese look fantastic, Beth! Just perfect for elevenses.
ReplyDeleteI like Rachel's new series - have you tried the recipe for the buttercream she put on the poppyseed cake, it had no icing sugar in it and would be a good one to have if I ran out!
ReplyDeleteWOW Beth those cupcakes sound and look absolutely delicious!! I love lemon flavours in bakes :)
ReplyDeleteRosie x
we bought some some lemon cakes from the co-op recently- they were pretty awful. These look fabulous.
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