Healthy winter pastries: lemon cake with tea frosting in 40 minutes
The best homemade pastries for tea are pies, muffins, strudels with berries, cottage cheese, and fruit. In winter, it is best to prepare desserts with citrus fruits and berries, which are high in vitamin C.
Lemon cupcake
Cook Polina shared on Instagram a recipe for a delicious, flavorful lemon cupcake with icing, which you can prepare very quickly and easily.
Cupcake recipe
Source: screenshot of the cook's recipe on Instagram
Ingredients:
- flour - 230 g
- sugar - 200 g
- baking powder - 2 tsp.
- salt - 1/2 tsp.
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- sour cream - 250 ml
- butter - 125 g
- lemon zest
- lemon juice from one half
the glaze:
- powdered sugar - 150 g
- lemon juice from the other half
Method of preparation:
1. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and mix well.
Cake base
Source: screenshot from an Instagram video
2. Crack the eggs into a separate bowl, add 100 g of sugar and sour cream, and mix all the ingredients until smooth.
Preparing the dough
Source: screenshot from an Instagram video
3. Grate the lemon zest (only the top layer) and squeeze out the juice, add the melted butter, zest, lemon juice and mix.
Lemon zest
Source: screenshot from an Instagram video
4. Add the dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Cover the mold with parchment, grease with butter and pour the dough, smooth it well on top, bake for 40-50 minutes at 180 C.
How long to bake the cake
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6. For the icing: mix the powdered sugar with the lemon juice.
Frosting for the cupcake
Source: screenshot from an Instagram video
7. Remove the cake from the mold and let it cool, then pour the icing over it.
Finished cupcake
Source: Once Upon a Chef screenshot
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