Since my basic cupcake decorating class I went for in 2010, I promised Alicia (and myself) to bake cupcakes for her *some day*. After two long years, I finally kept my promise to her and here’s my very first attempt at baking Christmas cupcakes for kids! 🙂
These are definitely amateur and my icing didn’t even turn out the way I wanted it to be because of my mixer but oh well, the cupcakes still looked pretty and the icing was still tasty and refreshing because of the lemon juice.
We made lemon poppy seed cupcakes – I know it hardly sounds festive so I made sure the decorations made up for it.
Grated lemon zest
Poppy seeds my friend brought back from the US for me
Lemon poppy seed cupcakes all done!
And after it cooled, Alicia and I decorated the cupcakes:
I used a recipe a dear friend gave me which she adapted from joythebaker.com, and it turned out delicious! Even if you don’t make any icing or glaze, these cupcakes are yummy on their own.
- 130g fine sugar
- zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 250g self-raising flour sifted
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 50ml milk
- 2 eggs
- 113g melted unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- Icing
- Juice of half a lemon
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Combine all the dry ingredients.
- Prepare all the 'wet' ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and fold together. don't over-stir.
- When almost thoroughly mixed, add poppy seeds.
- Preheat oven to 200deg C.
- Bake for 17-20mins or until browned/golden tops.
- While cupcakes are in the oven, prepare the icing.
- Combine the icing ingredients together and whisk till well combined. (I couldn't get mine to become fluffy; it ended up too stiff to be piped because of my mixer but it was malleable enough to be rolled out and placed over the cupcake, much like fondant so I just made do.)
- After the cupcakes have cooled, use a knife to level the cupcake then decorate your cupcakes.
Have a go at these recipes:
 The easiest blueberry muffins |
 Banana chocolate chip muffin |
 Quick and easy brownies |
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Cute cupcakes.. I’m sure they tasted lovely too!!
Dominique Goh recently posted…Building Biologist: Am I an Insect?
thanks Dominique!
Omg, they look so freaking good…. I want to reuse this recipe and reinvent it for the valentines day. Thanks for the idea, I am excited to try it.
Christina Walsh recently posted…Lemonade Diet – ideas and suggestions related to lemonade diet
Thanks Christina! Do link back when you make these for Valentines day! Would certainly love to see your beautiful cupcakes!