Determination! Lemon Cupcakes... Again

Determined to win our Dessert Competition for our company picnic on Saturday, I rushed home, cake flour in hand, to remake the lemon cupcakes that just couldn't hold up on Wednesday. I assumed my problem was that I hadn't used cake flour, as called for in the recipe. They were so dry! I was extremely disappointed, I love making cupcakes from scratch. 

I made a brown sugar lemon cream cheese frosting, and a traditional cream cheese frosting. Both pretty decent, but the regular cream cheese frosting held up quite a bit better. After realizing how dry the cupcakes were, I attempted to "help" them by using some organic strawberries, sugar, and cornstarch and making a raspberry filling... Helped, but not quite enough. Some cupcakes came with some flowers made of fondant on the top, some had lemons. It was quite the feat. They just couldn't quite cut it, so I gave up for the evening.

Lemon Cupcakes with brown sugar cream cheese frosting

Fully Equipped with homemade Raspberry Filling

Pretty sure the muffin "wrappers" were my favorite part. Frosting was pretty decent too ;)