Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 250 g butter softened
- 1 cup caster sugar
- Finely grated zest of 2 lemons I like mine quite intensely lemony, you can use the zest of just 1 if you wish
- 4 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups plain flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
Icing
- 225 g butter softened
- 4-5 cups icing sugar sifted
- Finely grated zest of 2 lemons
- 5 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 24 muffin tins with cupcake papers.
- Cream the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until soft. Gradually add the sugar and grated lemon zest and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs in one at a time, beating between each addition.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture.
- Spoon the mixture into prepared muffin tins and fill approximately 3/4 full. Bake for approximately 15 minutes, until risen and golden.
- Remove the cupcakes from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool before you ice them.
Icing
- Cream the butter in a bowl with an electric beater until very soft. Gradually add the icing sugar and beat into the butter, along with the lemon zest and enough lemon juice to soften the icing, to a spreadable consistency (you might not need all the icing sugar)
- When the cupcakes are cool, spoon the mixture into an icing bag with a nozzle attached and ice the cupcakes.