Ooooh, yummy! Three of the greatest things of all time - lemons, meringue and cupcakes, combined into one snack of awesomeness!
Ingredients
For the cupcake:
- 100g self raising flour
- 100g butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Lemon Curd
For the meringue:
- 2 egg whites
- 100g caster sgar
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180c/gas mark 4 and line a 12 hole tin with bun cases
- Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Stir in the eggs then the lemon juice
- Fold in the flour
- Spoon 1 large tbsp of the mixture into each case, then make a small dip in the middle of each one
- Spoon 1 tsp of lemon curd into each dip, then cover with the remaining mixture
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes
- While the cupcakes are baking, make the meringue. Beat the egg whites in a clean bowl until they from stiff peaks
- Slowly add the sugar until the mixture is thick and glossy
- Spoon the mixture into a ziplock bag or piping bag and cut off one of the corners
- Remove the cupcakes from the oven and pipe the meringue over the tops of the cakes
- Return to the oven for 10 minutes
- Once cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin
Et voila! Delicious lemon meringue cupcakes!
