Lemon Cupcake
Lemon Cup Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- All purpose flour – 1 cup
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – one pinch
- Sugar – ¾ cup
- Sunflower oil – 1/3 cup
- Egg – 1
- Lemon essence – 1 ½ tsp
- Lemon Zest – ½ tsp
- Curd – 1/3 cup
- Lemon juice – 1/3 cup (diluted)
- Yellow food color – few drops
(Note: 1 Cup = 250 ml.
Whenever you are mixing for the cake with hand or hand mixer, you should mix in one direction only to get soft cakes.
Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature before you start mixing
Make sure your oven settings are correct, else cakes won’t come proper)
Method:
Preheat oven to 175 degree. Line a cupcake tray with cup cake liners and keep it ready.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl take sugar and oil. Mix with a mixer in high speed until its combined well
Add egg and mix with high speed.
Add lemon essence, lemon zest and yellow food color
Add the dry ingredients to it, about 2tbsp at a time mixing after each addition, just until combined. (all step from this step should be done in low/medium speed)
When you start finding it difficult to mix start adding curd and mix
Add lemon juice and mix until combined.
Batter is ready (The batter prepared will be runny)
Pour the batter in the cupcake tray (2/3 maximum in each liner)
Bake for 10 – 15 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Remove the cup cakes from the pan and let it cool. Serve and Enjoy!!!!
Hi! What is the curd in the list of ingredients?
Hi Switooth….. is yogurt available at your place. You can add that
Thanks
Vimmy
Hi…Lovely cupcakes… can i double this recipe?
Hi Praseetha…yes you can do that, will get 25-30 cupcakes depending on the size of cupcake mould you are using.
Happy Baking!!!!
Vimmy 🙂
Hello Vimmy!!!please suggest a subsitute for egg.also which frosting have you used….thanks very much!
Hi Deepti,
There is recipe posted for Eggless lemon Cupcake in the blog.
http://vimmysrecipeworld.com/eggless-lemon-cupcake/
The frosting used is Fresh Cream Frosting
http://vimmysrecipeworld.com/how-to-make-fresh-cream-frosting/
Happy Baking!!!!
Vimmy 🙂
Can I just reduce the amount of sugar ?
Hi Amreen….yes you can do that 🙂
Lovely… Can I use curds or banana instead of egg…
Thank you for the recipe,, how many muffins can be prepared with this recipe..
Hi Kiran,
You can make 12- 13 muffins with the quantity mentioned in the recipe
Thanks
Vimmy 🙂
Is there an egg substitute that i can use for this one?