LEMON LOVER'S CUPCAKES

Lemon Lover's Cupcakes image

Time 1h6m

Number Of Ingredients 18

1 Recipe for Lemon Curd
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Cupcakes:
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1 (16 - 18 ounce) box of white cake mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cup water
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup prepared lemon curd
2 large eggs
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1 Recipe for Lemon Whipped Cream
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1 Recipe for Lemon Buttercream Frosting
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Lemon Drop Candy

Steps:

Prepare Lemon Curd ahead of time and allow to cool to room temperature or chilled. Preheat oven to 325*F Line cupcake pan with liners and set aside. Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, combine cake mix, flour, sugar and salt. Mix to incorporate. Add water, oil, and eggs. Mix well until mixture is smooth. Add 1 cup of lemon curd. This is what will give your cupcakes a light lemon flavor. Using a large 3 Tablespoon cookie scoop, fill each liner 3/4 full with cake batter. Bake for 16 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. While cupcakes are cooling, make lemon whipped cream and fill a piping bag. If you don't have a piping bag you can use a large ziploc bag. Then make Lemon Buttercream Frosting and set aside. Piping Tip Instructions: With piping tip, stab it in the top middle of the cupcake and gently squeeze your piping bag. fill center until the cupcake bulges a bit. Remove tip and repeat for all other cupcakes. Ziploc Instructions: Hollow out the center of each cupcake down to half the cupcake (not to the cupcake wrapper), saving the top nub of the hollowed out piece. Fill cupcake with lemon whipped cream then replace top nub. Pipe Frosting onto cooled and filled cupcakes. Top entire cupcake with a lemon drop candy. Immediately devour one or two cupcakes!