How to Cook Delicious Lemon cupcakes

Lemon cupcakes. These are my favorite lemon cupcakes. They are moist, tender, have the perfect balance between These cupcakes are moist, delicate, and full of lemon flavor. The frosting is a simple classic.

These light, lemony cupcakes, made from scratch, have a fluffy whipped cream icing. When life gives you lemons, make a big batch of lemon cupcakes!! These are one of my favorite cupcake recipes, I love the fluffy, moist crumb with that. You can have Lemon cupcakes using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon cupcakes

1. It's 2 1/2 cups of flour.
2. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
3. Prepare 3 tsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1/2 cup of milk.
6. You need 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
7. It's 1/2 cup of oil.
8. It's of Zest of 2 lemons.
9. Prepare 2 of eggs.
10. Prepare 1 cup of water.
11. It's 200 g of butter.
12. Prepare of Icing sugar.
13. It's of Vanilla extract.
14. Prepare of Gel food colouring (optional).

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Lemon cupcakes instructions

1. Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
2. Combine the wet ingredients except the water in a medium sized bowl. Whisk all together.
3. Create a well in the dry ingredients then add the wet in the centre.
4. Mix in well.
5. Add the water then mix.
6. Grease the cupcake cases lightly and add the mixture.
7. Bake at 175 * c for 15-17 minutes.
8. Whisk the butter in a stand mixer or you can use the hand one. Until fluffy. Add icing sugar little by little until you get the desired sweetness. Then add vanilla extract.
9. Colour a majority of the buttercream with a small amount of green gel food colouring..
10. Use the grass tip (large with many holes) hold above the cupcake without letting it touch and squeeze. (make sure the cupcake has cooled).
11. For the Roses colour some buttercream pink and use the small swirl tip and make small tight circular motions..
12. For the blue flowers use the star tip and simply squeeze lightly..
13. And the yellow plants simply find the crescent shaped top and also squeeze lightly.

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