Today is BEHIND THE CURTAIN DESSERT CHALLENGE REVEAL DAY! For this month’s reveal, our challenge was to make a dessert using almond paste and pastry of some sort. I chose to make Lemon and Almond Cupcakes.
What is the Behind the Curtain Dessert Challenge?
Every month we are assigned two ingredients (this month it was Almond Paste and Pastry) we are to take those two ingredients and create or find a recipe using the chosen ingredients.
Does this sound like fun to you? Need more traffic to your website or want to meet new friends? Then this is the party for you! THIS IS A BLOG HOP so EVERYONE gets to be the host. HERE is more information on how it works.
Back to my yummy recipe 
These cupcakes turned out SO good. I had never baked with almond paste before, but I now know, I will be baking with this substance a lot more in the coming months.
- 1-7 oz box Almond Paste, grated
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- ¼ cup canola oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (2-3 large lemons)
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind (only yellow part)
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 stick of butter, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons of milk
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Place cupcake liners in muffins tins.
- In mixing bowl, mix Almond Paste and sugar until the texture of small crumbs. Add eggs one at a time beating well between each. Add yogurt, oil, lemon juice and rind. Beat until well combined.
- Sift flour and baking powder into almond mixture. Beat until mixed, scraping the bottom and sides of bowl. Spoon batter into liners, a bit more than ½ full.
- Bake cupcakes in center of oven, 20-25 minutes or until tops are nicely rounded and toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Start testing at 20 minutes. Cool tins on wire racks for 5 minutes.
- Then, transfer cupcakes to wire rack and cool completely.
- To make icing, mix together powdered sugar, butter, and milk. If you want a thicker icing, add more powdered sugar. For a thinner icing, add more milk.
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Hi! I am Jen--a wife to the most amazing man ever and a homeschool mom to one teenager. I just graduated my oldest.
I have been blogging since 2007. I love to watch movies, spend time in the kitchen, crochet, dance, drink coffee, and lay on the beach. Between recipes, reviews, and hilarious life story moments you'll find many helpful posts on this blog. Welcome, pull up a chair and stay for a while!
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Mmmmm…I love lemons…I love almonds…I love a cupcake! These sound wonderful!
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This recipe looks great, and I love the piping on the top of the cupcakes! How did you do that?
Dru @ Teenage Cakeland recently posted…St. Joseph’s Pastries
Your lemon and almond cupcakes do look and sound very delicious, Jennifer.
Nice to know that pure buttercream (all butter icing vs. vegetable shortening) can produce thick enough frosting for proper piping.
P.s.
Congratulations too on homeschooling and 20 years of marriage =)
P.s.2.
Didn’t realize the photo of my contribution to the Dessert Challenge and link back to my site couldn’t be included later after posting as in other groups.
Love to have you take a peek at The Ninja Baker’s Petite Almond Puffs.
http://ninjabaking.com/news/petite-almond-puffs-dessert-challenge
Mmmmm… these look and sound delicious!
Thanks for linking up to this week’s Catch a Glimpse party! I’ll be featuring this tomorrow.
Thank you for sharing your recipe at BEHIND THE CURTAIN CHALLENGE! I can’t wait to see what you create for next month! Pretzels and Caramel! ~Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain~
Cupcakes! Love it! I bet the lemon and almond paired together was so bright and flavorful. These cupcakes look gorgeous and sound so tasty. Lovely!
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