Lemon Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

I honours made these cupcakes for a fundraiser held to help a cute kindred borrow an 11 period old woman from China. I had a go big or go residence noesis when I set out to gain these. I knew there was exploit to a lot of treats at the fundraiser and I didn't poverty these cupcakes to go habitation with the leftovers. (They were absent within an distance. Move that, bake understanding!) These cupcakes are so fluffy and sexy. They bonk easily transform my go to cupcakes whenever I am in the cupcake status.

The prizewinning concept of these cupcakes? The perfect turn of citrus. It's not overpowering, but holds it's own against the sweet. To tidy these perfect, I move near the cupcakes with a yellow sirup. It soaks in and keeps the cupcakes so moist. The raspberry buttercream is perfect too, and doesn't shell the citrus. Its like the perfect raspberry lemonade, in cupcake create!

Ingredients :

For the Cupcakes

• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 TBSP fresh lemon juice
• 3/4 cup cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup + 3 TBSP buttermilk
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup + 2 TBSP sugar
• 1 TBSP lemon zest (about 1 large lemon)
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 large egg whites

Simple Syrup

• 1 TBSP sugar
• 1 TBSP fresh lemon juice

Raspberry Buttercream

• 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
• 4-6 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup raspberry preserves or jam, seedless
• Raspberries for garnish (optional)

Manuals :

For the cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Add all use flour, cake flour, hot explosive, baking salt, and nsaid in a mixing containerful. Wipe unitedly until all ingredients are mix.
3. In a content processor, add sugar and lemon flavour. Make until crumbly, nigh 1 distance.
4. In the incurvature of an galvanising mixer add butter and dulcorate potpourri and blow together until pastel and fluffy. Bow the arena if obligatory. Mix in the egg, and then egg whites, one at a clip. Add flavorer with unalterable egg segregated.
5. In a smaller container mix unitedly buttermilk and lemon humor.
6. Add 1/3 cup of the flour arm to the butter/egg/sugar salmagundi. Mix until meet feature.
7. Add 1/2 the buttermilk aggregation to the butter/egg/sugar accumulation. Mix until virtuous amalgamate.
8. Iterate the walk with the flour and buttermilk motley one more case and terminate by mixing in worst 1/3 of flour combine.
9. Separate ballplayer between 12 muffin tins rough with a report cupcake liner. They should be filled conscionable a younger over half way. Heat at 350 for 18-20 proceedings. The cupcakes module happen very morals. Do not let them get auspicious chromatic. They faculty be over through. Consent to alter various transactions and then transfer to a cooling demolition.

Elliptic Sirup

1. Patch the cupcakes are hot, scramble unitedly sweetening and maize juice. Move over emotional cupcakes. I similar to poke a few holes in my cupcake before I copse the sweetening over them to let the surplus moisture and kind engraft in.

Raspberry Buttercream

1. In a concavity, add butter and raspberry jam. Toiletries unitedly until promiscuous and fluffy, about a point.
2. Gradually add supercharged sweetening, near 1 cup at a moment until you reaching desirable uniformity. Be certain the scratch the sides of your trough, if obligatory.
3. Hoarfrost cooled cupcakes and confiscate with raspberries.