Lemon Cupcakes

These lemon cupcakes are the perfect balance between sweet and sour and are thoroughly addictive! This recipe makes 24 cupcakes.

Ingredients
250g butter, softened
250g caster sugar
Finely grated zest of 2 lemons (I like mine quite intensely lemony, you can use the zest of just 1 if you wish)
4 eggs
300g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder

Method
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 24 muffin tins with cupcake papers
2. Cream the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until soft. Gradually add the sugar and grated lemon zest and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
3. Add the eggs in one at a time, beating between each addition.
4. Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture.
5. Spoon the mixture into prepared muffin tins and fill approximately 3/4 full. Bake for approximately 15 minutes, until risen and golden.
6. Remove the cupcakes from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool before you ice them.

Lemon Icing
225g butter, softened
4-5 cups icing sugar, sifted
Finely grated zest of 2 lemons
5 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1. Cream the butter in a bowl with an electric beater until very soft. Gradually add the icing sugar and beat into the butter, along with the lemon zest and enough lemon juice to soften the icing, to a spreadable consistency (you might not need all the icing sugar)
2. When the cupcakes are cool, spoon the mixture into an icing bag with a nozzle attached and ice the

cupcakes
Enjoy!