These cupcakes are based on an older Irish recipe I found. I changed quite a bit of it, including using box mix! It turned out tangy and lemony sweet though! Plus, it’s WAY faster and easier to make than the original “from scratch” version.
Thought I’d pass it on! Happy Baking:)
YOU NEED
-Lemon flavored box cake mix (Duncan Hines etc..)
-One package of jello instant lemon pudding
-4 eggs
-1 cup of water
-1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
-Confectioners sugar
-2 jars of lemon curd (lemon filling)
DIRECTIONS
1- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
2- In a large mixing bowl, combine the cake and pudding mixes with a fork. Disregard the amounts of additional ingredients on the back of the cake mix box since you are altering the recipe by adding the instant pudding mix.
3- To the bowl of combined mixes, add 4 eggs, 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, and 1 cup of water.
4- Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat all the ingredients until just combined. Don’t be shocked..the batter will be much thicker than regular cake batter!
5- Pour the batter into cupcake liners, about 2/3 of the way full.
6- After the cupcakes have finished cooking, and have completely cooled off- use a sharp narrow bladed knife, to cut into the top center of each cake, removing a cone shape. Set it aside.
7- Fill each cavity with about 1 tablespoon of lemon curd.
8- Replace the “cones” into the filling on each cupcake, and dust with confectioner’s sugar!
Yield: 24 cakes.
SUPER LEMONY GOODNESS!!
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These are the best triple lemon fairy cakes I've ever eaten. In fairness, I've never had a fairy cake before, but I'm pretty sure that even if I had, these would have still been by far the best! Seriously, they were moist (from the pudding?), tangy, and the lemon curd filling was the perfect finishing touch. Just excellent!
YUM! And such a pretty name to match. I love Irish recipes. :o)
Thanks Michael! lol.
-Kelly, they are really yummy! And as Irish recipes go, this was a good one. Some of them are pretty dicey!! "You want me to do what with corned beef?"
lol.
Mmmmm Shan they looks so delic and so so PRETTY!!!! 🙂 I love the name too, lemon fairy cakes:)
In Ireland they don't say "cupcakes" they say "fairy cakes"- I like it better! It sounds more magical!