Recipe: Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes

Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes. Lemon drizzle cupcakes that are easy to make and absolutely jam-packed with flavour. Skip to the recipe I've had a few messages from people recently asking whether my vanilla cupcakes can be turned into lemon cakes, so I decided to get experimenting. These light, extra moist Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes are the perfect treat.

Easy, Sweet and Sour Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes! Sometimes, going quite simple and classic is the way to success. In this case, it's all things lemon because it is DELICIOUS. You can cook Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes

1. It's 175 grams of soft butter.
2. It's 175 grams of caster sugar.
3. You need 2 of eggs.
4. It's 4 tbsp of milk.
5. It's 175 grams of self raising flour.
6. You need 1 of zest of an unwaxed lemon.
7. It's 1 of juice of 1 lemon.
8. You need 1 tbsp of icing sugar.

To be fair as well, Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes has been one of the most highly requested bakes on my blog in a long time, and I was in a lemony mood. The simple lemon flavour is my favourite but you can experiment by adding a little elderflower cordial in the drizzle for lemon and elderflower cupcakes. You can also add a scant teaspoon of Lady Grey or Earl Grey tea in the batter for sophisticated twist, Lemon Tea Cupcakes anyone? If you have some lemon curd you can use it as a topping instead of the frosting.

Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes step by step

1. beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
2. beat in the eggs and milk until smooth.
3. fold in the flour and lemon zest until combined.
4. spoon mixture into cupcake cases. I managed 10.
5. bake in a preheated oven at 180°c/300°f until golden in top and a skewer comes out clean.
6. mix juice with the sifted icing sugar. while the cakes are still hot, poke holes allover with a skewer and slowly spoon icing mix over the tops until all used up.
7. keep in an airtight container for up to a week but best eaten while a little warm.

Lemon drizzle cupcakes are a wonderful thing, zingy, zesty and easy to make. Perfect for birthday parties or picnics. This week I'm going wayyyy back in to the archives to dig out one of the first cakes I ever baked and continue to bake to this day! I hope you love it as much as I do. Don't forget to post pics of.