Lemon Cupcake Recipe

Lemon Poppy Seed Cupcakes 

with Lemon Curd Filling & Blueberry Cream Cheese Icing.

A Few of you guys asked me for a recipe for some cupcakes I made recently.

I got the recipe idea here so it's not original with me but because I kind of cheated and didn't totally follow the recipe I'll put it up here exactly like I made them.

My cheat sheet for a quick lemon cake.

Lemon Cake Using A White Cake Mix

By Cake Central

• 1 box white cake mix
• 1 box of lemon instant pudding mix (the small box)
• 1/2 tsp of pure lemon extract
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 1 cup of sour cream
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 cup of oil
• 1/2 cup of water (squeeze lemon to get all the juice and add water to make it 1/2 cup)
• 1 Tbsp Poppy Seeds (my personal addition for this recipe)

Read more at Cake Central 

Lemon Curd Filling

• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar
• 3 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp butter, melted
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest

Whisk together ingredients in a double boiler. Cook for about 15 min stirring occasionally until it thickens. Remove from heat and cool. 

After my cupcakes had cooled a bit I scooped out a little of the insides and replaced it with the lemon curd. See pictures. 

Blueberry Cream Cheese Icing

• 1 Cup Fresh or Frozen Blueberries
• 1/2 Cup Butter, Softened
• 1 8oz Cream Cheese
• 1 Cup Powdered Sugar 

Blend blueberries in food processor with softened cream cheese. Mix in remaining ingredients. 

I found the icing at this point to be a litte more runny then I wanted for cupcakes. I had to add more cream cheese to get the consistency better. The original recipe wasn't counting for the juice that frozen or fresh blueberries would have.