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The idea this week was to make lemon meringue pie style cupcakes. The cupcakes themselves are lemon flavoured (I was lazy this week and used a mix), and then filled them with lemon curd to replicate pie filling.
I baked individual meringues using this recipe (minus the peppermint candy). They turned out like hard, melt in your mouth meringue cookies. They're really delicious, but next time I think I might try using soft meringues and a kitchen torch to brown them to make meringue more like what you find on an actual pie.
The frosting is a plain buttercream. I hadn't intended to colour it, but the meringues are so white that it didn't contrast enough. So purple was kind of a random choice but I think they turned out pretty and it matches the wrappers I used (Wilton makes them).
Definitely yummy cupcakes, but I think these ones are almost too sweet. Is that possible for a cupcake?
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Purple Lemon Cupcakes?
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You are not kind to this low carber. Meanie meanie. I want a cupcake now, and the hardest part of being able to cook is we never have to run out and buy treats - we make them ourselves.
I'm thinking of Nancy Reagan and will "Just Say No." but really want one.
I agree. As long as I have sugar and flour in the house, I'm never free from junk food!
I tried to stick to a 5/7 sort of plan. I cut out junk food and watch my calorie and carb consumption from Monday to Friday, but on the weekends I eat whatever I want. Which almost invariably means cupcakes :)
Oh sweet mother of God. It's like staring into the sun *drowns in own drool*
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