Anyways, I digress. These do not disappoint, in fact, they inspire. I ate one warm, and although they're also great cold, warm needs to be experienced... oh salivating just writing that.
200gr butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
2 1/2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup lemon or passionfruit butter
1/2 lemon
3 egg whites
3/4 cup caster sugar
Method:
Preheat oven to 160 deg (fan forced) or 180 (non fan-forced)
With a mixer, cream the butter, vanilla and 1 cup of caster sugar together
Add the eggs, one at a time - the mixture will separate - don't stress!
With two spoons, fill your paper cases (I have used Robert Gordon Liberty cases - fills 20, but if you were to use small cupcake cases it would make around 24) about 1/3 of the way up (I large tablespoon)
Flatten them down as much as possible, then put in the oven for about 10-15 minutes.When cooled for about 30 minutes, with a spoon, spoon out centres (round 20c coin size) and fill with lemon or passionfruit butter.
Whilst the cakes are cooling, wipe the inside of your mixing bowl with 1/2 lemon. Add eggwhites and whip until you get stiff peaks. Add caster sugar and whip for a further 1-2 minutes until meringue is glossy.
Put meringue into a ziplock bag and cut off the corner so it's about 1/2cm from bottom.
In a circular motion, ice cupcakes basically to cover all of the lemon/passionfruit butter and overlap with cake. Doesn't need to be super professional, you can fix up any issues with a knife afterwards!
Put back in the oven for about 5 minutes until slightly browned on top.
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7 lovely comments:
Yum. Makes me wish I had some lemons in the house...
Wow. Just wow.
Wow.
I love your cupcake cups!!!!!
Oh gorgeous! Are those the Robert Gordon cupcake holders? They're divine! I must get some of that pattern :)
Oh they look delicious! I think I will have to make some for my Dad, he would love them.
These look delicious, and oh-so-cute!
I know this is an old post but I have to ask about the lemon wipe on the bowl before whipping the meringues. I have never heard of this before.
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