Lemon Meringue Cupcakes Amongst Swiss Meringue

I dearest looking dorsum at one-time posts.   Sort of.  Sometimes I cringe at photos I took alongside my iphone, other times it brings dorsum a peachy memory... too delicious dessert.  I've included i of my master starting fourth dimension posts (5 years ago) below that I'm revisiting today - Lemon Meringue Cupcakes.  I realize that citrus flavour is inwards the winter, precisely for me, zero is every bit springy every bit a lemon dessert.  Actually lemon anything.

Today, I'm making these inwards respect of Emma's Mimi's birthday - similar me, she's crazy almost whatever matter lemon too cupcakes.  While I haven't shared these cupcakes on the weblog inwards years, they are i of my favorite to make: white cake topped alongside lemon curd too swiss meringue.

I've topped them alongside my 6" Celebration Candles inwards Lemon Curd - a novel color for spring.  They are perfectly lemony inwards color alongside a beautiful natural subtle hue.


Products used :

6" Celebration Candles inwards Lemon Curd
Jumbo Starburst Tip
18" Disposable Piping Bag
Brown Cupcake Liners

The cupcakes tin terminate come upward from a box, too the curd tin terminate survive store-bought, or everything tin terminate survive made from scratch.  If you're feeling ambitious today (unlike me) too would similar to brand everything from scratch, hither is my recipe for Lemon Butter Cake that would survive peachy to move for the cupcake element, too hither is link to my Lemon Curd recipe.

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

24 Cupcakes - Vanilla or Lemon (from a mix or homemade)
Lemon Curd (store-bought or homemade)
Swiss Meringue (recipe below)

Bake cupcakes every bit directed.  Let cool for thirty minutes earlier topping.



Gently split upward each cupcake to permit lemon curd to instruct into the cake.



Dollop lemon curd on generously.



Put Swiss Meringue inwards a large pipe pocketbook (18" Disposable Bags) fitted alongside the Giant Starburst Tip, $4.

Pipe meringue inwards swirls on transcend of the lemon curd cupcakes.


Optional : To toast the transcend of the meringue, identify the cupcakes nether the broiler (set to almost 400 degrees) inwards the oven for thirty seconds.  OR, move a kitchen blowtorch, similar I did here.










 
Swiss Meringue

iv egg whites
1 loving cup of sugar
1 pinch of cream of tarter

In the transcend bowl of a double boiler (glass bowl sitting on a sauce pan alongside simmering water), whisk together egg whites, saccharide too cream of tarter.  







Cook mixture inwards the double boiler over medium depression rut for 3-5 minutes, or until saccharide has dissolved.  If you lot rub the mixture betwixt your fingers, you lot should survive able to say if the saccharide has dissolved.




Transfer the mixture to your kitchen aid fitted alongside the whisk attachment.  Whisk on high for 7-10 minutes.



The mixture volition cool too froth into a thick meringue every bit it whips.  Beat until strong peaks form. Transfer to pipe bag, or spread guide on lemon curd. 

Here is the easy-to-pin strip!























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Now, you lot tin terminate bask a flashback of around fine photography from years by : )

For my friend's birthday political party concluding night, I created these refreshing Lemon Meringue Cupcakes.  I picked these "Naked Ladies" (pink flowers) from my backyard - I dearest them inwards large bunches. 

Leah enjoying her Birthday cupcakes!

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