Lemon & Blueberry Cupcakes

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Back in May it was my friend's birthday and I thought what better and personal present could I give then some baked goods that were related to her favourite group PENTAGON. While I was hunting for something she might like, I came across this recipe from Jane's Patisserie.

Let's get baking!

Ingredients:

Cupcakes:

150g unsalted butter

150g caster sugar

3 medium eggs

150g self-raising flour

Zest of 1 lemon

100g blueberries

Blueberry Coulis:

200g blueberries

25g caster sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

Buttercream:

150g unsalted butter (block butter, room temp)

350g icing sugar

3-4 tbsp blueberry coulis (made above)

Start off by pre-heating your oven to 180C/160C Fan and line a 12 hole muffin tray with your cupcake cases.

Next cream together your butter and sugar until light & fluffy and smooth.

Next add in the eggs, self-raising flour and lemon zest and beat again for about 20-30 seconds until smooth.

Next fold in the blueberries.

Finally, spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases and bake in the oven for 20-22 minutes or until baked through. Once baked, leave to cool on a wire rack.

Whilst your cupcakes are baking, add the blueberries, lemon juice and caster sugar to a small pan and heat on a low heat, mashing the blueberries with a fork whilst it heats.

Let the mixture simmer for a few minutes until it becomes a lot softer.

Blend the mixture until smooth and pass through a sieve - let it cool fully.

Beat the room temperature butter until smooth. Add in the icing sugar 1/3 at a time, making sure the sugar is fully incorporated.

Gradually add in the coulis one spoonful at a time - adding too much too quick can soften the butter.

Now you're ready to decorate, for this step I didn't follow the original recipe as I was decorating them differently. I added some navy food colouring, to make the butter cream a little darker to be closer to PENTAGON's official colours and piped onto the cupcakes. I cut out some white icing to write the members names on and placed on top of the buttercream. I then boxed them up ready to give to my friend.

This recipe was really easy and simple to follow, the recipe makes 12 cupcakes, which gave me some spare to try for myself as I only packed up 9 for my friend to make up the 9 PENTAGON members. I thought the blueberries worked really well. I think if I made this again, I'd add more blueberries as I didn't feel that there was enough for the mixture for all of the cupcakes. I think this recipe would work well with raspberries too.

If you would like to check out and follow the original recipe then head over to Lemon & Blueberry Cupcakes! on Jane's Patisserie website.

I also recommend her other recipes too.

See you soon!

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(Annyeong)

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