Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

Hello again everyone!

 

I've been baking again :) I found some gorgeous looking lemon meringue cakes on Pinterest and I just had to try making them! Lemon meringue is one of my favourite desserts and who doesn't like cake!? Most of the pictures I found were of big cakes but I wanted to make cupcakes instead.

 

 

I used my usual vanilla cupcake recipe but used less vanilla as I didn't want it to overpower the lemon. Once the cake were cooked, I cut a hole in the middle and scooped in some lemon curd and then popped the little piece ofcake back ontop. I didn't want the lemon curd to bubble up when I cooked the meringue.

 

 

I've never made meringue before but I found a really easy recipe in one of my mums (really old) cookbooks. I swear its more sellotape than book these days but it's got some great recipes so we've kept hold of it. I attempted to pipe the meringue ontop of my cakes but it didn't really work out all that well.

 

I think they turned out really well. And considering all 12 were gone within 2 days everyone in my house must have agreed as well!

 

Thats all for today!