Ingredients:
Cupcakes:
- ½ cups King Arthur Unbleached Cake Flour Blend
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup butter, room temperature
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon Buttery Sweet Dough Flavor (optional, but adds that signature bakery taste)
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
- one batch Easy Microwave Lemon Curd
- 3 large egg whites
- ¼ teaspoon Bakewell Cream or cream of tartar
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons sugar
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a 12-cup cupcake or muffin pan
with paper liners; spritz the liners lightly with cooking spray.
- To make the cupcakes: Place the following in the bowl of your mixer:
the cake flour blend, baking powder, salt, baking soda, sugar, butter,
egg, vanilla and Buttery Sweet Dough Flavor. Add 1/3 cup of the
buttermilk.
- Blend the mixture on medium speed for 2 minutes. The mixture will be thick at first, but will smooth out as you mix.
- Add the remaining 1/3 cup buttermilk and mix on medium speed for 1
minute. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, and mix briefly, if
necessary.
- Fill each well of the pan 2/3 full, and bake the cupcakes for 15 to
18 minutes, until they're light golden brown on the edges. Remove them
from the oven, and immediately transfer them from the pan to a rack.
Cool completely.
- Prepare the lemon curd according to the recipe, and set it aside to cool and thicken as the cupcakes cool.
- Core each cooled cupcake with a cupcake corer (or an apple corer),
leaving a small well in the center of the cake. Fill to the brim with
cooled lemon filling. Fill all cupcakes, then prepare the meringue.
- To make the meringue: In a very clean work bowl, whip the egg whites
and Bakewell Cream or cream of tartar until soft peaks form. Add the
salt. Gradually add the sugar, increasing the whipping speed and
continuing to whip until the mixture is light and billowy, and stiff
peaks form.
- Mound or pipe meringue onto each cupcake, then toast the meringue
with a cook's torch; or carefully broil until golden brown. Serve warm,
for a flowing lemon lava; or cool for a more set filling.
Note: makes 12 cupcakes.
Photo Credit: kingarthurflour.com
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