As a special treat, I am offering you some little Lemon Love Cakes which I hope you will enjoy. These are really simple little cakes to make, easy enough for beginners and ideal for young children to make with a little help from an adult and for older children to make on their own. They are ideal to make and serve for Valentines Day with a few heart-shaped sprinkles.
As an aside, I went to get my camera to take these photos and my husband nearly took off with one of these Lemon Love Cakes, so they obviously work!
More Valentine Treats
Valentine Cranberry Orange Scones
How to make Chocolate Gingerbread Cupcakes for your Valentine
Valentine Cherry Pistachio Cupcakes – Mon Cherry Amour!
I’m entering these Lemon Love Cakes in the February Tea Time Treats Challenge run by Karen at Lavender and Lovage and Kate at What Kate Baked, Kate is hosting this month and has gone all ‘Romantic’!
I’m also entering Lemon Love Cakes for the new Alphabakes challenge run by Ros at ‘The more than occasional baker’ and Caroline Makes the letter is ‘L’ and that means Luuuurrrve!
Lemon Love Cakes
An easy lemon cupcake recipe with lemon buttercream and heart shaped sprinkles.
Ingredients
For the cupcakes
- 125 g oz butter 4 1/2 oz
- 125 g caster sugar 4 1/2 oz
- 1/2 large lemon zest
- 2 eggs beaten
- 150 g self raising flour 5oz
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
For the buttercream
- 75 g butter 3 oz
- 175 g icing sugar, sifted 6 oz
- 1/2 large lemon zest
- 2-3 tsp squeezed lemon juice
- heart sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C, line a fairy cake tin or muffin tin with paper cases (you will get more cakes if you use the fairy cake tin, but they will be smaller)
- Cream the butter in a bowl until soft. Add the sugar and lemon zest and beat until fluffy. Add the beaten eggs a bit at at time, then add the sifted flour and baking powder into the mixture.
- Divide the mixture between the paper cases and bake for 7-10 minutes, until risen and golden. Remove cakes to a baking tray and let them cool completely before icing.
- To make the buttercream
- Cream the butter until soft, sift the icing sugar into the butter with the lemon zest and enough lemon juice to get the right consistency for piping or spreading.
- When the cupcakes have cooled completely, put the butter icing into a piping bag with a large star nozzle and pipe swirls onto the cupcakes. Alternately, spread a large teaspoonful over the top with a palette knife.
- Sprinkle a little love over the cupcakes in the form of some pink heart cake decorations.
Notes
Ideal for Valentines Day!
Nutrition
Calories: 272kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 2gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 63mgSodium: 130mgPotassium: 33mgSugar: 25gVitamin A: 455IUVitamin C: 0.3mgCalcium: 14mgIron: 0.2mg
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Brownieville Girl says
Janice, I think that it's Kate's turn to organise the tea time treats this month (at What Kate Baked).
I just love your icing I can just imagine the sweetness mixed with the lovely tang of the lemon – delicious and beautiful.
Janice says
Thanks for that, I've changed the link to What Kate Baked!
Matt @ RecipeLion says
This dessert looks great! I would love it if you linked up this recipe to my blog hop for a chance to win a cookbook prize package: http://bit.ly/wJSl1h
Karen S Booth says
LOL! It is the ROMANTIC Kate that is hosting this month Janice! LOVELY wee cakes and PERFECT for tea time treats too!
Karen
xxx
Francesca says
Those look great. With all those fancy flavoured cupcakes around, it just shows that oven the old-fashioned flavours are still the best.
Heather Wilkinson says
Lemon is one of my fav cake flavours and your icing is perfect! I've got a long list of things I want to bake and this recipe is also now on that list!
Caroline says
These look lovely, especially the little sprinkles! There's something about the sharpness of lemon and the sweetness of buttercream that I just love 🙂
Baking Addict says
Thank you so much for entering these to AlphaBakes. They look LOVELY indeed. I LOVE Lemon cakes and I'm not surprised these were disappearing quickly. PS i've baked something similar for alphabakes and TTT – clearly, great minds think alike! 🙂 Will post tomorrow hopefully.
[email protected] says
What lovely, lovely cupcakes Janice- the icing looks so lush and professional. Sorry its taken me a couple of days to come over and admire them- and thank you very very much for entering them into Tea Time Treats!
A Trifle Rushed says
How completely yummy! I do love lemon in cakes 🙂 Jude x
Jacqueline says
Those are so pretty! I just love them 🙂
At Anna's kitchen table says
Love lemon! Comes a close second to chocolate I think!
Lauralovescakes says
These look perfect! Lemon cupcakes are always a nice change from vanilla…although any flavour is good when cupcakes are concerned! 🙂