Cupcakes

Name: Cupcakes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 1 stick plus 1 tablespoon soft butter; 710 milliliters confectioners sugar; 2 larges egg whites (or substitute powdered egg whites); 2 eggs; 177 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 2 Tbsps milk; 118 milliliters sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Cupcakes Head to the store and pick up confectioners' sugar, sugar, lemon juice, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Royal Icing, recipe follows

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Icing

Special equipment: 12 bun muffin pan, lined with muffin papers.

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Roll

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Muffin Tray

Take everything you need out of the fridge in time to get to room temperature - and this makes a huge difference to the lightness of the cupcakes later - and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

Put all of the ingredients for the cupcakes except for the milk into a food processor and blitz until smooth. Pulse while adding the milk down the funnel, to make a smooth dropping consistency.

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Cupcakes

Milk

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Food Processor

Funnel

Divide the mixture between a 12-bun muffin tin lined with muffin papers, and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. They should have risen and be golden on top.

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Roll

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Muffin Tray

Oven

Let them cool a little in their tins on a rack, and then take them carefully out of the tin to cool in their papers, still on the wire rack.

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Wire Rack

Ice with Royal Icing.

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Icing

Ice

Combine the egg whites and confectioners' sugar in a medium-size mixing bowl and whip with an electric mixer on medium speed until opaque and shiny, about 5 minutes.

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Powdered Sugar

Egg Whites

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Whisk in the lemon juice, this will thin out the icing. Beat for another couple of minutes until you reach the right spreading consistency for the cupcakes.

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Lemon Juice