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LEMON MERINGUE CUPCAKES
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The social saviour! When cutting into a lemon meringue pie, I always find myself cheating by trying to get more than my fair share of the meringue topping. By changing it to cake form, I save myself the embarrassment and end up with my very own pile of meringue. – Callie
125 g butter, softened
1/2 cup (100 g) sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence
1 cup (140 g) cake flour
2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder
1/2 cup (125 ml) milk
1. Preheat the oven to 180degC. Prepare a muffin pan with 12 paper cups.
2. In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, with paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until pale in colour. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, then add the vanilla essence.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder. Alternately add the dry ingredients and the milk to the butter mixture, starting and ending with flour. Blend well.
4. Bake for 15-18 minutes. Leave to cool completely, and then scoop out a little of the centre of each cupcake.
FILLING
Use a shop-bought lemon curd or follow this easy recipe.
1 can (385 ml) condensed milk
juice and zest of 2 lemons
3 egg yokes
1. Mix all the ingredients together until well combined.
2. Spoon equal amounts of the curd into the hollows in the cupcakes.
MERINGUE TOPPING
4 egg whites, at room temperature
1 cup (200 g) sugar
pinch of salt
1. In the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer, combine the egg whites, sugar and salt. Set over a pan of simmering water, then hand whisk continuously for 3-5 minutes until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is hot to the touch.
2. Attach the bowl to the electric mixer and, using the whisk attachment, beat on low for 2 minutes, then on high for a further 5 minutes until the mixture has cooled down and stiff peaks form.
3. Pipe the meringue on top of the cupcakes, then toast the meringue with a blowtorch or pop the cupcakes under a preheated grill for a minute until the meringue starts browning.
Makes 12.
Extracted with kind permission from Sugar & Spice by Callie Maritz & Mari-Louis Guy, with
photography by Dirk Pieters, published by New Holland, RRP $45.00.
For MORE DELICIOUS RECIPES from the book, including Healthy Brown Bread, click on PAGE 4 below.
another great giveaway! thanks!!
I have a great recipe for savoury muffins (‘Taste’ magazine) for those unexpected visitors – the receipe is so easy, they are quick to make and enjoyment is virtually guarenteed!
Looks like a great book! Thanks for the opportunity!
What a beautiful cover!
Peanut butter cookies, super easy & children love them.
I’d love to try baking out of this book.
I use 5 Cup Loaf for my quick baking needs.
1C Self raising flour
1C Brown Sugar
1C Sultanas (I usually only use 3/4C)
1C coconut
1C Milk
Mix altogether, pour into a loaf tin and bake at 180′ for 45mins.
Enjoy.
The cover is so pretty! I don’t think I could bring myself to bake something in a teacup, but it would be a great way to serve chocolate mousse! My go-to recipe is similar to yours… Anzac slice http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Anzac-Slice-L4890.html (I use half the amount of sugar in the recipe)
@ Ruth, you can quite often pick up singular teacups at ‘Op’ shops to save using precious sets!
I always make rhubarb muffins as we seems to have a never ending supply of rhubarb in our garden!
Thanks for the great giveaway 🙂
This book looks great and can’t wait to try some of the recipes
I love baking! I have a recipe book addiction! My go-to-recipe is a no eggs/no dairy chocolate cake that is really moist and super yum with chocolate ganache poured over. Yum.
Emergency baking? Good old lil pancakes with butter& homemade jam!
Chocolate Chippie biscuits with condensed milk out of the Ladies, Bring a Plate recipe book. If I have more time though I would do a coffee and walnut cake from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook – it’s amazing made with marscapone icing YUMMO~~
This book looks lovely! Would love to have a copy.. My emergency baking is to slice up a roll of frozen cookie dough, I always keep a couple in reserve. At the moment in my freezer I have one roll of dark chocolate shortbread and one of white chocolate, macadamia nut and fig cookies.
Thank you for the give away! x
What a great book. Would love to win this!
My goto recipe for quick and easy biscuits (that everyone loves) is Peanut Butter Biscuits. Don’t be fooled by the ingredients, there are only three…
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Mix all together. Roll tablespoonfuls onto balls. Place on a greased baking tray and flatten with a fork, allowing room for spreading. Bake 180 oC for 10 minutes or until golden.
Yum it looks like a fantastic book! My emergency baking recipe is a batch of muffins with a muffin base recipe I always use then chuck whatever fruit and/or choc etc I have on hand……so quick and easy to whip up a batch!
Would love that savory muffin recipe marie. I love this website.
Hi Janine – will ‘post’ the savoury muffin recipe tomorrow evening – cheers
Savoury/Cheese Muffins –
1 x small onion finely chopped; 5-6 rashers bacon (or ham) cut into pieces; big handful parsley – chopped; 1 1/2 cups flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 cup grated cheese; 1 cup milk beaten with 2 eggs:
Combine onion, bacon, parsley, flour, baking powder, cheese, along with salt and pepper. Make a well in the centre, pour in the milk and egg mixture and bind the mixture together gently with your hands. The consistency should be wet. Bake in greased muffin tins at 190c for 20 minutes or until golden brown
(From ‘Taste’ Magazine about 3-4 years back)
This book looks so full of yummy recipes.I think Lemon meringue cupcakes sound awesome
Looks good.Love the mag and all the great thing in it.Keep up the good work
Afgans. They are so good and so easy! And SO GOOD!!!
Apparently I need to hone my baking skills as my kids tell me Mummy is better at baking than Daddy. This book would hopefully give me some advantage, or at least some novelty factor that should count in my favour.
This book sounds awesome! I want it! I would write more but I need to go and eat something sweet after looking at those gorgeous photographs. YUM!
What A GREAT name for a book.Spices always arouses the senses & must be a great read.Can,t wait to see it.
Oh sounds like a yummy book! Would love to try some of these recipes out!
What a delight it would be to delve into this treasure of a book as we head into the winter months. My emergency baking recipe are my Chocolate Fudge Cakes – they are little morsels of deliciousness that are always moist and just rich enough to feel naughty but not sickening!
As Winter draws near and the days get cooler I love nothing more than to spend the day all snug and warm inside, baking up a storm! My emergency baking recipe is my Lemon Loaf – moist and zesty every time!
Kath’s Luscious Lemon Loaf
Loaf
1 cup self raising flour
½ cup coconut
125g butter
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
½ cup milk
Grated rind and juice of 4 large lemons
• Cream butter and sugar
• Add eggs one at a time and beat
• Sift flour and add alternatively with milk
• Add coconut and lemon rind and mix
• Put in a loaf tin lined with baking paper
• Bake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour (depending on your oven)
Lemon Sugar Syrup
• Combine lemon juice and caster sugar in a small jug, adding as much caster sugar as is necessary to make a syrupy consistency. Ultimately there should be 1½ cups of syrup
• Pour this syrup over the loaf when it is cooked and still hot
Note: Before enjoying the loaf, leave it to cool in the tin so that all the syrup can be absorbed
This book would make a wonderful birthday present for my darling wife who is an avid baker!!
This book sounds like a fantastic collection of yummy recipes – i’d be delighted to win a copy!
sounds like a must have book!!
this book sounds like just what i need
Love your magazine and cooking recipes =) love love love
really enjoying your site, and scones are my go to baking
I’d love to win a copy of this book…always on the lookout for new things to make. cover photo looks very good indeed!!
My quick and easy standby is a choc brownie, that takes only 4 minutes to cook in the microwave and can be also used hot with icecream/choc sauce or cream as a quick dessert
Im just loving “Sweet Living”, such awesome articles and ideas !!!
Sticky Banoffee Pie, this sounds divine, if it says ‘sticky’ I am in!
Love this online magazine – it really is just delicious to look at 🙂
oohhh fab recipe book!! would love to win it.. I’d gift it to my sister..
Would so love to win this I love this magazine
My son’s favourite dessert is Banoffee Pie, so I’ll be making these for his birthday! And Lemon Meringue is one of my favourites! Yum!
Oh the book looks good enough to eat!
My emergency recipe is good ol’ Pikelets with a dollop of home made jam.
Piklets – fresh, still warm – YUM
Muffins are always the best bet, they’re quick to whip up with ingredients you have in your store cupboard, don’t require lots of beating and mixing and generally only take 10-20 minutes to cook 🙂 also best served warm with some fresh whipped cream or butter to melt into them 🙂 and also the pretty paper wrappers make them decorative without having to pipe on icing
What a lovely book! Would make a nice birthday gift for my sister-in-law next month.
What a lovely gift –
My never fail quick cook idea would be banana blueberry muffins or lemon muffins yum!!
Yum. This book looks great!! I would love to win a copy of it.
What can I say? – YUM!!!
All the recipes look great, gotta quickly write a few down, my cheat is sweet shortcrust pastry, cut with cookie cutter 2 the same size, cut a hole in one and fill with lemon honey or jam, bake 180 c for about 10 min.
A win would brighten up my alone mothers day.
My quick recipe is 5,4,3,2, 1 , a half and a drop.
It’s a super easy, cherry slice. The measurements are in ounces, and that’s how old the recipe is. It was a favourite of my Mum’s!
Hi,
Lovely website. Would love to win this book!
In an emergency I usually make date or sultana rock cakes or my super easy fruit cake.
absolute fab recipes. cant wait to win the book and cook up a storm.
The basic muffin recipe from the Edmonds cookbook is always a winner and you can just add whatever you have on hand. My favourite additions are raspberry, white chocolate and coconut or date, orange and dark chocolate.
Amy 🙂
I seem to have got out of the way of baking lately but my usual go-to recipe was banana choc chip muffins – mainly because my family enjoyed them and they were easy to make. Great way to use up those last, rather beaten-up looking, bananas too!
Yum! What a fantastic giveaway! I would absolutely love to try those delicious sounding recipes! Please pick me!!! 😉 Being French, my favourite super fast dessert is a clafoutis. Although it is traditionally made with cherries, you can pretty much use any fruit you like. It’s super easy to make and simply delicious.
Thank you all for your fantastic ideas and brilliant creativity.
Sophie
what a great online mag! thanks!
This mag has got me into baking any chance I get. Much appreciated and I hope it has inspired others too.
Edmonds Honey Snaps are always a quick favourite. I also like to make extra dough when baking biscuits to put in the freezer for those ‘instant’ fixes. Just roll it up into a log and slice off what you need when you need it.
I would love to win this book 🙂
wow looks fantastic please pick me i’d love to win this book
My emergency recipe is lemon curd tarts. I make lemon curd each year so I have a generous stock on hand. If someone is coming over unexpectedly I just take a sheet of ready rolled sweet shortcrust pastry from the freezer, cut it into circles with a cookie cutter and fill with lemon curd. Cook in 200C oven for 10-15 minutes until pastry is golden brown.
always a home made pizza. love your mag x
The cake on the cover is enough to entice me to enter – yum. thanks