Classic Lemon Cupcakes
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
24 cupcakes
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 1 3⁄4 cups cake flour, sifted
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons lemon extract
- 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (1 stick)
- 3 egg whites
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare muffin pans with nonstick spray and flour.
- Resift the sifted cake flour with the baking powder and salt.
- Combine the milk and lemon extract.
- Cream the sugar and butter until fluffy.
- Alternating the flour mixture with the milk mixture, blend half of one, then the other into the butter mixture. Mix well after each addition and repeat. Mix until well blended.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Fold them into the batter.
- Pour the batter into the muffin pans, filling at least halfway. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the cakes test done.
- Remove the pans and turn out the cupcakes onto a wire rack to cool.
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