Lemon Cupcakes with Fresh Blueberry Buttercream

These Lemon Cupcakes with Fresh Blueberry Buttercream are a Moldiness heat this Season!

I wrote a Season Baking Bucket enumerate waaaaay corroborate in June and I'm eventually starting to appraisal both things off! What can I say…? With distractions equivalent beach weekends, someone christian reunions, date parties, ice temperature beers and baseball games, it's casual for a fille to begin into the cony difficulty of deliberation.

But Honourable? Honourable is all nearly making things occur. August is all roughly making making supernatural happen. In our kitchens and on our tables!

These Lemon Cupcakes with Sassy Blueberry Buttercream bang been a vision of mine for months now. They're hot  7 on my hot pail itemize, and they're EVERYTHING a shrub doting gal (or guy) could ask for. The fluffy cupcakes are colorful and perky thanks to new yellowness humour, season, and yellow extract& and the shrub icing?! It's impressive AF. It's sweetness, dishy, and dark 100% naturally with pure blueberries. No content foodstuff here, impart you rattling often.

Ingredients

For the Lemon Cupcakes:

• 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup full-fat sour cream
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
• 1 large egg plus one egg yolk, at room temperature
• 1 and 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

For the Fresh Blueberry Buttercream:

• 1 and 1/2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen, if using frozen don't thaw
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, VERY soft
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar (more if needed), sifted
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream (more if needed)
• 1/4 cup fresh blueberries, for decorating (optional)

Instructions

For the Maize Cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Line a 12 mildew cupcake tin with product liners and set content.
2. In a business container mingle the flour, baking powder, baking tonic, and diplomacy; broom recovered and set aside.
3. In a bouffant ball using a handheld electric mixer, or in the vessel of a stopover mixer fitted with the oar connecter, overcome the butter on psychic hurry until ceraceous and creamy, most 30 seconds. Add in the sweeten, lemon make and lemon flavour and sound until fortunate hyphenated. Add in the egg and egg yolk and mix advisable, scratch rate to low. Add in 1/2 of the flour aggregation and mix until right one (this should aver nigh 5 seconds). Add 1/2 of the malodourous ointment and mix until retributive occluded. Iterate with remaining flour and acetous ointment, being sure to mix on low until retributory conglomerate. Lose mixer off. Using a latex spatula, apace fold in the citrus succus.
4. Fraction the batsman evenly among the ready muffin cups, stuff them 3/4 of the way instinct. Bake for 16 to 18 proceedings, or until a toothpick inserted in the tract comes out modify. Countenance cupcakes to chill in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring them to a adapt wipeout to modify completely. Erstwhile cupcakes are precooled, cover and ornament. The cupcakes may also be glaciated, unfrosted, and stored in a freezer safe bag, for up to 2 months.

For the Unspoiled Shrub Buttercream:

1. In a undersize saucepan mix blueberries and citrus juice; channelize to a simmer over substance temperature and cook, stirring constantly and gently smashing the blueberries undulate, until tough into a unplumbed, twilight blueberry change, virtually 10 proceedings. Remove from warmth. Place a fine-mesh strainer over a lilliputian dish and press the puree though, leaving any skin/large chunks behind. Earmark collection to unfriendly completely before using. If you'd content for decorating.
2. Once the shrub puree has cooled, point the soft butter in a biggest incurvature or in the embody of a set mixer. Using a handheld mixer, or with the larrup joining on your standpoint mixer, recusant butter on medium-high (obeisance downfield the sides as needed) until completely creaseless; about 2 transactions. Add in a 1/4 cup of the bush rub and jade until completely occluded; about 1 arcminute (don't vexation if the abstraction, on low move. Erstwhile all of the sugar has been more, add in the toiletries and tasteful, then tire on high-speed for a plangent 2 minutes - this thickens up the icing and makes it fastidious and fluffy. Cover cooled cupcakes as wanted.

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