Basic Lemon Cupcakes
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1 hour 5 minutes
This basic lemon cupcake recipe has lemon zest and lemon juice to make delicious and moist cupcakes. Combine these cupcakes with your favourite icing.
Kilda
5 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 18 cupcakes
- 200g butter, softened
- 200g castor sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- zest of two small lemons
- 300g self raising flour
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:20min ›
Extra time:30min cooling ›
Ready in:1hour5min
- Heat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease or line a cupcake tray.
- Mix together butter, sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and zest. Stir in flour then beat until smooth.
- Spoon mixture into prepared cupcake tray then bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Allow to cool on a cooling rack before icing.
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I got to the part where you put the flour in - 28 Jul 2012
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Tasty enough, but this recipe is totally wrong. Firstly. it doesn't even come close to making 18. Secondly, the wet-dry ratio is completely off. I had to change it significantly to get a decent result. - 02 May 2015