Another Batch of Cupcakes

So I was a little late with this month's cupcakes... the first friday... was the first, go figure and i totally missed that one... and the next one...... my friday cupcake thing turned into more of a monday cupcake thing but hey... what can you do. the good news is, they got done and were AWESOME!

On the menu this month were a creation of my own... Blackberry filled lemon cupcakes with a lemon cream cheese frosting... did I mention the blackberry filling? mmmmm. These actually turned out exactly how I envisioned them.

Lemon Cupcakes

3 c flour

1 T baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 c unsalted butter, room temp

2 c sugar

4 lg eggs

zest of two lemons

2 T lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla

1 c buttermilk

 

It followed the usual, mix the dry, cream the butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time then the lemon zest, and mix it all together alternating the buttermilk, vanilla and lemon juice with the flour mixture... for more detailed instructions check out this blog. I used the cake recipe shown there.

 

the frosting was basic.. I used the concepts from my first batch of cream cheese frosting (if you recall it was orange and delicious) and instead of adding orange peel to my cream cheese, powdered sugar concoction...I added the zest of two lemons. Go figure!

the blackberry filling was simple too, two bags of blackberries, a cup of sugar, and lemon juice from a lemon or two...(I cant really remember.. I was in a lemon zesting/squeezing frenzy and almost killed a whole bag of lemons since I doubled the recipe...well all but the frosting (I decided to use that sparingly this time and only made half my original recipe, mostly out of laziness)

So there you have it!!! 

SO TASTY!!!!!! 

The only down side I can see to this is how quickly next month's batch of cupcakes are sneaking up on me. I should probably start thinking about what I'm gonna make this time.