Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Sicily Lemon Swirl Cupcakes

Sicily Lemon Swirl Cupcakes. Cheerful lemon cupcakes filled with silky smooth lemon curd and finished off with a sweet layer of cream cheese poppy seed frosting - the ultimate delicious sunny treat! As I mentioned last week, I have developed a little habit of smearing this incredible homemade lemon curd on everything and anything. These are my favorite lemon cupcakes.

The frosting is a simple classic buttercream, made mostly of butter and sugar. These light, lemony cupcakes, made from scratch, have a fluffy whipped cream icing. Here is a recipe I use for beautifully delicious lemon cupcakes. You can have Sicily Lemon Swirl Cupcakes using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sicily Lemon Swirl Cupcakes

1. Prepare 110 g of Softened Butter.
2. It's 110 g of Caster Sugar.
3. You need 2 of Eggs.
4. Prepare 110 g of Self-raising flour.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of Sicilian Lemon Flavouring.
6. You need of Vanilla Buttercream/Frosting.
7. You need of Lemon Buttercream/Frosting.
8. You need of Jelly Lemon Sweets for Decoration.

Ideally, you'd use buttercream frosting to ice cupcakes, but I tried these with Lemon Cream Icing for a less buttery icing, and they were perfect! These lemon cupcakes are not for the lemon faint of heart. They're the perfect lemon cupcake with triple the lemon flavor. It's like lemon smacks My Triple Lemon Cupcakes recipe is the best lemon cupcake I've ever had.

Sicily Lemon Swirl Cupcakes step by step

1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and fill a 12 cupcake tray with cases..
2. Using an electric whisk beat 110g softened butter and 110g golden caster sugar together until pale and fluffy then whisk in 2 large eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition..
3. Add ½ tsp Lemon Flavouring, 110g self-raising flour and a pinch of salt, whisk until just combined then spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases..
4. Bake for 15 mins until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack..
5. Using a piping bag and placing Lemon frosting down the inside of one side of the bag and the lemon frosting down the other side. Then pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes as desired and top it off with a lemon sweet for decoration..

In my opinion the best lemon cupcakes have lemon. Ingredients: Buttercream frosting (recipe link below) Cupcakes (red velvet recipe link below) Food colour - I used liquid colours, blue, yellow and pink. Lemon Cupcakes contain a small pocket of lemon curd. Its tangy sweetness pairs beautifully with the vanilla cupcake and the whipped cream frosting. These Lemon Cupcakes have a surprise waiting inside, a small pocket of lemon curd.