Due to the use of coconut milk, these are vegan, if you're looking for that sort of thing ;) Light and delicate in texture, the flavor was bright and not too sweet. I topped them with a little lemon glaze, but it's up to you!
Meyer Lemon Cupcakes
slightly adapted from Love & Olive Oil
Yield: 12 cupcakes or ~32 mini cupcakes
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup oil
1 cup full fat coconut milk (full fat really is better!!)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
zest of 2 meyer lemons
1 teaspoon meyer lemon juice
meyer lemon glaze, see below
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add sugar and brown sugar and mix. Whisk together oil, coconut milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Mix until relatively smooth.
Prepare mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Fill cupcake tins with ~1T batter (just about 2/3 full). Bake for 10-12min or until golden (a toothpick inserted to the center should come clean). Transfer to a cooling rack and cool completely. [For regular size cupcakes, fill with 3T batter and bake 20-25min]
For a lemon glaze, I just whisked together ~1/2c powdered sugar and the juice of 1/2 meyer lemon. Adjust with more powdered sugar or lemon juice to achieve desired consistency and drizzle over cupcakes.
Have you jumped on the meyer lemon bandwagon?
11 comments:
Aww! I bet your friend LOVED these! And I bet the coconut milk added some interesting flavor and made them taste nice and light. nom nom!
I would LOVE to jump on the meyer lemon bandwagon but I can't find them anywhere! Whole foods doesn't seem to have them, nor does my local supermarket. I'm going on a hunt for them today. And I refuse to come back empty-handed.
These cupcakes are so cute!
I haven't made anything with meyer lemons, but these cupcakes look like a great recipe to start with!
These remind me of the cupcakes from Babycakes, a vegan bakery in NY. They look delicious! I want to bake something with coconut milk.
can we still throw some nutella on that? hehe.
LC
These look ADORABLE!
I actually have never had meyer lemons - but those cupcakes look terrific!
Glad they were a hit!
What, no meyer lemon curd filling? ;-)
These minis are adorable. I love a good lemon dessert, and since they're minis, you can eat like 3 of them, right?
Hope your week is off to a good start!
These sound delightful! Love the meyer lemon glaze drizzled on top!
These are so moist and scrumptious looking - love the coconut milk! I haven't been able to find Meyer lemons here. So SAD cause I'm seeing recipes everywhere!
I loved how the meyer lemons were really the star of these cupcakes - so bright and fresh! :)
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