Lemon cupcakes with meringue and lemon curd

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Cupcakes - lemon, strawberry, cream and chocolate - are now popular with sweet teeth all over the world. They first appeared in America. It happened in the last century. Mini cakes decorated with air cream, icing or fruit are easy to prepare and perfectly replace the usual desserts. Today we are focusing on lemon cupcakes. The photo recipe below describes two types of this delicacy.

Basic recipe

The classic version of cupcakes usually includes a small set of ingredients. Butter, flour, eggs and sugar are almost always found in any kitchen. Recipe ingredients can be changed. And then new types of dessert will appear at the exit. Just one addition of spices will help create a whole new mini-cake sound. However, most often cupcakes differ in decoration, acquiring due to it not only external features, but also other flavors.

So, for a slightly modernized basic recipe, you will need:

• Mixed plain flour with baking powder -2.5 cups.
• Butter (butter) - 200g
• Sugar (better to use fine or even powdered) - 1 cup.
• Eggs - 3 pieces.
• Milk - half a glass.
• Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon or vanilla on the tip of a knife.

Cooking

In the first step, soft butter is whipped with powder and vanilla. Then eggs are added to the mixture - you need to enter them one at a time. The next step is adding flour and milk. They can be introduced in parts, alternating with each other, so that the consistency does not become too liquid or dry during the kneading process.

When the mass becomes homogeneous, it is laid out in molds. You can use silicone, paper, ceramic or metal - it does not matter. The main thing is to pre-lubricate the last two types of dishes from the above options with oil. Forms are filled with two-thirds of the dough.

Cupcakes are baked for 15-20 minutes at 180º. Finished products are left for a short time in the forms. Then they are taken out, cooled and decorated.

Lemon Cupcakes

For experienced housewives, the question of how to turn ordinary mini-cakes into lemon ones is unlikely to cause difficulty. To do this, just add zest to the classic set of ingredients. Lemon cupcakes are good on their own. They can be served without any extra decorations. An interesting option is to decorate cupcakes with thin, gracefully curved ribbons of zest. You can go the other way: with lemon aroma and taste, for example, meringue and custard are perfectly combined. In a word, possibleDelight options are limited only by the imagination of the chef. And by the way, you can make orange cupcakes the same way.

Lemon meringue cupcakes

Great option for decorating almost any kind of cake - delicate meringue. The protein mass is applied to the surface of the cupcakes after baking. And to prepare the meringue, you will need sugar (225 g) and whites of three eggs.

The ingredients are mixed in a suitable bowl. On the stove put a pot of water for a water bath. A container with a protein mass should not touch the surface of a slightly boiling liquid. The sugar base of the meringue is sent to a water bath and constantly stirred until it heats up to 45º. Then the mass is whipped with a mixer until strong peaks form. Using a pastry bag, meringue is used to decorate ready-made cupcakes. And they are sent to an oven preheated to 200º for about 4-7 minutes. The finished meringue will be golden brown and crispy on the outside.

Lemon Curd

An interesting version of mini-cakes can be prepared using a variety of custard - lemon curd. It replaces the traditionally used milk with lemon juice. Kurd is not an easy dish to prepare, but attention and a little patience will help you master it quickly.

To make the cream, you will also need a water bath. The water should boil quietly and not reach the bottom of the main container by about 2 cm. In a suitable bowl, combine sugar (3 tablespoons) and lemon zest (about 1 teaspoon) and grind. Then 2 medium eggs and the juice of onelemon. The container with the contents is placed in a water bath. The mass must be constantly stirred, gradually it will begin to thicken. This will take approximately 7 minutes. The curd, which has reached the consistency of sour cream, is removed from the heat and left to cool for 10 minutes. Then butter at room temperature, about 20 g, is added to it, and everything is mixed. Kurd ready.

Cupcakes with fillings

In order to make cupcakes with lemon curd, you need to fill ready-made mini-cakes with cream. To do this, a funnel-shaped or round recess is made in each product with a knife. The main thing is not to damage the bottom. The holes are filled with curd, and the top is cut off from the "extra" pulp. Then it is placed on the cream in the form of a lid. These cupcakes go great with meringue. The protein mass is applied over the lid. And the mini cakes are sent to the oven for 5 minutes to brown.

Cupcakes, the recipe with the photo of which is given above, you can safely cook for the holiday instead of the usual cakes. Based on the above description, it is not difficult to make variants of cupcakes with orange or traditional custard. Lemon cupcakes (with zest) can also be considered a variant of the basic recipe. With the help of various decorations, it is easy to make new independent desserts from them.