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Sweet and sunny, with all the things we love about lemon meringue pie — but in cupcake form. Lemon Meringue Cupcakes. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Light as a feather lemon meringue cupcakes are filled with lemon curd and topped with a gorgeous yellow striped meringue topping for a decadent treat that is hard to beat!

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes


Filled with tangy lemon curd and topped with fluffy meringue they are a great way to. If you love lemon meringue pie, don't hesitate to bake a batch of these fabulous filled cupcakes. These mini meringues will bring a touch of zing to your party, and can be made one day ahead for extra ease.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, lemon meringue cupcakes. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It's easy, it's fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Meringue Cupcakes is something that I've loved my entire life.

Sweet and sunny, with all the things we love about lemon meringue pie — but in cupcake form. Lemon Meringue Cupcakes. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Light as a feather lemon meringue cupcakes are filled with lemon curd and topped with a gorgeous yellow striped meringue topping for a decadent treat that is hard to beat!

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lemon meringue cupcakes using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Meringue Cupcakes:

  1. {Get of For the cake.
  2. {Prepare 175 g of unsalted butter, softened.
  3. {Take 175 g of self-raising flour.
  4. {Prepare 175 g of caster sugar.
  5. {Take 3 of large eggs.
  6. {Get 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
  7. {Get 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
  8. {Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon zest.
  9. {Make ready 1-2 tbsp of milk (if mixture is too stiff).
  10. {Make ready of For the lemon curd filling.
  11. {Take 115 g of golden caster sugar.
  12. {Get 30 g of cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces.
  13. {Make ready 2 of large eggs, lightly beaten.
  14. {Make ready of Juice of 1 lemon.
  15. {Prepare of Freshly grated zest 1 lemon.
  16. {Take of For the lemon meringue frosting.
  17. {Take 170 g of caster sugar.
  18. {Prepare 3 of large egg whites (112g roughly).
  19. {Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
  20. {Prepare 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar.

These lemon meringue cupcakes are so lemony and fresh! Like the pie, the cupcakes are piled How to Make Lemon Meringue Cupcakes. If you are new to making cupcakes, read my post all. When I created the Keto Vanilla Cake I sent the recipe out to a few people to come up with some different versions to show the versatility of this recipe.

Steps to make Lemon Meringue Cupcakes:

  1. First, make the lemon curd. In a heavy saucepan, heat the sugar, butter, eggs and lemon juice over a fairly low heat, whisking all the time, until the mixture is thick enough to hold marks of the whisk. This will take around 12-15 minutes. Once thickened, immediately pour the curd through a sieve into a bowl. Stir in the zest and set aside to cool..
  2. Preheat your oven to 180degrees fan and prepare a muffin tray with muffin cases..
  3. Make the cakes: using a beater in an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for 4-5 minutes until pale and fluffy. Beat in one egg at a time, for about 2 minutes per egg. Add the lemon juice and zest before finally adding the flour and baking powder and fold in gently until fully incorporated. Add some milk if the mixture seems a little stiff..
  4. Divide this mixture evenly between the cake cases and bake in the oven for around 15 - 18 minutes, or until lightly golden and a skewer comes out clean when put into the cakes. Set aside to cool completely..
  5. While your cakes are cooling, get started on your meringue frosting. Heat all the frosting ingredients in a metal mixing bowl (ideally one that attaches to your free-standing electric mixer) over a Bain marie. Whisk continuously until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture has reached a temperature of around 70-75 degrees C..
  6. Remove from the heat, put back to your free standing mixture and whisk on high for roughly 8-10 minutes until your meringue has doubled, even tripled in size, is glossy and stiff..
  7. When the cupcakes are cooled, core out the middle of each cupcake. You can do this using an Apple corer or a large piping nozzle. Place a dollop of lemon curd into the centre of each cupcake to the top..
  8. Pipe your meringue frosting onto each cupcake and blast the tops with a chefs blow torch, or place under a grill on a high setting to toast the meringue. Keep an eye on them! They will colour very quickly. Enjoy!.

Place cupcakes back into cooled Spoon meringue into piping bag fitted with large tip. Pipe meringue onto each cupcake creating. Lemon Meringue Cupcakes consist of three parts that create perfect harmony: moist lemon cake cupcakes, zesty lemon curd and sweet Italian meringue topping. Add lemon curd into the cupcakes and frost them with the meringue. Fans of lemony flavor won't think these zesty cupcakes topped with lemon curd and a crisp I love the lemon and meringue combination, but the store-bought lemon meringue cupcakes always.

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