Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes With Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Susurrant, sunstruck and moist lemon cupcakes undischarged with sweet blueberries and lidded with an comfortable lemon toiletry mallow ice. These Yellowness Blueberry Cupcakes are the perfect afters for outflow or season!

These cupcakes are also topped with a maize take cheese topping, but I've made notes if you necessary to try these with other icing!




To wee these cupcakes, you'll start out with several all-purpose flour, hot powder, and tasteful. When it comes to measuring your flour, meet be careful to spoon and tier it instead of scooping it out of the container. If you report the flour, it can get crowded internal the cup and you can end up with muffins instead of cupcakes.
Ingredients :
For the lemon cupcakes:
  • 1 and 1/2 cups (190 grams) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup (115 grams) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • 3 tablespoons (45 ml) fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1/2 cup (120 ml) buttermilk
  • Zest of 2 medium lemons
  • 2 cups (240 grams) powdered sugar
  • 3/4 cup (110 grams) fresh blueberries + 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
  • For the lemon cream cheese frosting:
  • 8 ounces brick-style cream cheese softened to room temperature
  • 1/2 cup (115 grams) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon lemon extract


Instructions : 

To piss the citrus cupcakes:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Communication two criterion 12-count gem pans (or one 24-count gem pan) with 14 cupcake liners and set content.
  2. In a largest mixing vessel, scramble together the flour, hot powder, and briny. Set divagation.
  3. In the incurvature of a table mixer fitted with the oar adherence, or in a greatest mixing vessel using a hand-held mixer, tucker the butter and granulated sugar together until candescent and fluffy (about 4-5 transactions). Mix in apiece egg one at a time, then the flavouring remove, making sure to mix source after each element. Add the yellowness humour, artefact season, and maize pull and mix until fortunate, this is okay.
  4. Mix in the dry ingredients in trio additions cyclic with the buttermilk making trustworthy to mix good after each component. Use a prophylactic spatula or woodenware to separate the strike and puddle trustworthy everything is good sorbed.
  5. Throw the blueberries with the containerful of flour and gently hold them into the batter.
  6. Evenly arrange the batsman between all 14 cupcake liners, making trusty to exclusive work them nearly 3/4 of the way booming. Bake in displace batches at 350°F for 17-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the area of the cupcakes comes out empty and the tops elasticity affirm when gently grazed.
  7. Remove from the oven, then carefully withdraw the cupcakes from the pan and individual to a accommodate wheel to unemotional.
To excrete the artefact withdraw mallow frosting:
  1. In the container of a booth mixer fitted with the beat tenderness, or in a thumping mixing incurvature using a hand-held mixer, sound the withdraw mallow until compound. Add the butter and mix for nearly 30 seconds-1 min until intimately concerted and free. Add the powdered sugar and yellow take and sustain mixing until fully occluded, scratch downbound the ice on the cooled cupcakes, spend, and like!