Marzipan (Cup)cake(S) With Lemonglaze
photo by berry271
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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12 cupcakes
- Serves:
- 1
ingredients
- 200 g marzipan
- 75 g flour
- 125 g butter (or half canola-oil)
- 50 g ground almonds
- 4 eggs
- 75 g dark brown sugar (or brown or white)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a half vanilla bean)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 4 tablespoons icing sugar
- 1⁄2 - 1 tablespoon lemon juice
directions
- Preheat oven at 180°C.
- Mix dark brown sugar and butter (or oil-butter mixture) until creamy.
- Add eggs and mix until very fluffy.
- Cube Marzipan and soften in microwave (about 20-30 sec. at 700 Watt). You don't need to do this, but the handling is way easier.
- Incorporate marzipan, cinnamon, pinch of salt and vanilla extract into egg-butter-sugar mixture.
- Add ground almonds.
- Mix baking powder with flour and add to dough. Mix thoroughly.
- Butter a cake pan or cupcake tin and transfer dough to it.
- Bake at 180°C for about 45 minutes (cake) or 20 minutes (cupcakes).
- Let cupcakes cool for 10 minutes.
- Mix lemon juice and icing sugar until a thick paste forms. Glaze cooled cupcakes as you like.
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Reviews
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Definitely amazing. I just finished baking the cake and whole kitchen smells like almond dream. Final result is a moist cake with a nice touch of marzipan. I used IKEA's marzipan, it has not very intense taste as sole but I think it was enough to give a good almond aroma to whole cake. I used the exact amount of ingredients and it was enough to fill 6 small cupcake tins and a medium cake tin.
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Nice and moist. Not a very sweet cupcake. They also didn't taste super almondy to me. Next time I might sub in almond extract for the vanilla. I wasn't crazy about the ground almonds and the texture they added, but that's just me. Overall a nice treat. I did really like the lemonglaze and thought it turned out better than other glazes I've made. They are very pretty. I can't find my camera, or I would post a pic. I think they would be nice at a shower or at a fancy luncheon or tea. Made for PAC Spring 2013. Update: Found my camera and was able to snap a pic before the cupcakes disappeared. Yeah! I must also add that this really is a VERY moist cupcake.