Monday, July 4, 2011

Lemon White Chocolate Cupcakes

Tart and Sweet Lemon White Chocolate Cupcakes with Fresh Lemon Curd Filling and Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting!! Yum!
Happy Fourth of July....

Lemon White Chocolate Cupcakes
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 sticks butter softened
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup plain yogurt
Lemon zest from 2 lemons
1 cup fresh lemon juice
5 eggs
1/2 bag of white chocolate chips

Heat over 350 degrees
mix flour, salt, powder, & soda in a large bowl
cream butter and sugar in mixer
In a medium bowl mix yogurt, lemon zest, and lemon juice
Add eggs to butter and sugar one at a time
Alternate flour mixture and yogurt mixture in to mixer. Mix until combined. Add White Chocolate Chips and stir.
Fill lined baking cups and bake approx 16 mins. until golden around the edges.

Once cooled press in a small section of the center and pipe
 Fresh Lemon Curd into center of each cake.

Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
1 pgk of cream cheese
1 1/2 sticks of butter
Juice from 2 lemons. Zest from both also
2 large spoon fulls of lemon curd
4 cups powdered sugar

Cream first 5 ingredients.
Add powdered sugar slowly until combined.
Refrigerate for 20 mins.
Pipe onto each cupcake

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