Do you suddenly host the Queen of Hearts at your Mad Tea Party and you don't want her screaming "Off with his head!"? Then follow this recipe and even the most evil villain will become peaceful and easygoing while sipping your tea.
Ingredients (for 8 cupcakes)
2 eggs
6 tablespoons olive oil
⅝ cup granulated sugar
1¼ cups all purpose flour
2 lemon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1¼ cups confectioner's sugar
Preparation
Peel the lemons and keep the zest apart. Whisk in a bowl the oil, the eggs, the juice of 1 lemon and the granulated sugar, then sieve into the flour and the baking powder continuing to whisk until creamy. Grease and sprinkle with flour some muffin cups, pour into the batter filling them just slightly before the top. Cook into a preheated oven at 320F for about half an hour or until risen and golden. In the meanwhile cut the other lemon in two and squeeze it, mix the juice with the confectioner's sugar until creamy, then add half of the lemon zest, minced. Let the cupcakes cool down over a rack, pour over the lemon glaze adding some more minced lemon zest as decoration. Put into the refrigerator for about 20 minutes to solidify the glaze and serve, maybe together with some hot, nice tea.
(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)
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17 commenti :
stunning! such a simple ingredient list, but the taste looks so sweet and complex. lovely cupcake!
just stunning...
sweetlife
absolutely delicious and beautiful!
I will be the Queen at your Tea Party anytime! Looks delish.
Good tasting too! What a simply delightful and perfect tea party cake.
These will be perfect to make for my daughter's birthday tea party in May! Bookmarked!
These look super delicious...I love citrus in muffins and cupcakes!
Oh it looks perfect. I love the way you pour that lemon glaze. It looks so good and yummy. :-) Thanks!
Beautiful photo of a delicious looking indulgence!
Thanks for your comments!
These cupcakes are really a breeze to prepare and pretty simple too (I'm not a cake expert at all). What I love of them is that you can really tune their sweetness balancing the sugar with the lemon while being not too fat, so you can include them in any diet.
oh, Alessandro! these cupcakes looks divine. I love the fact that they are made with olive oil (molto italianisimo!)
bacio
You have a way of making a cupcake look so elegant. Looks delicious and lovely presentation.
Divine simplicity!
That looks beautiful! I love how simple the recipe is.
Aren't cupcakes just great! In the latest episode of my online cooking show I'm making Swedish cupcakes. Please check it out! Linn
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Such a pretty, grown-up-looking cuppie.
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