Citrus Curd Cupcakes with Creamy Vanilla Icing

Name: Thermomix recipe: Citrus Curd Cupcakes with Creamy Vanilla Icing
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 Batch Citrus Curd; 250 Grams golden caster sugar; Zest 1 lemon; 150 Grams unsalted butter; 200 Grams SR flour; 2 eggs; 50 Grams milk, with juice 1/2 lemon stirred in to sour; 35 Grams plain flour; 200 Grams full cream milk; 150 Grams sugar; 200 Grams unsalted butter; 35 Grams vanilla bean paste

Makes 12 cupcakes Prep Time 1 hours Cook Time 25 minutes Rated: Print

Citus Curd filled lemon cupcakes? Yes please! Could anything make them any better? Try topping them with Creamy Vanilla Icing - yummo!

You are going to LOVE this frosting...so, don’t skimp. And to be honest...what’s not to love about Citrus Curd? Am I right?

Let’s cut to the chase, make, bake, take a pic, instagram it and hashtag #Thermomixtress and then eat, without groaning and moaning. (OH and leave me a comment by all means.) I know you’ll love these. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Need

1 Batch Citrus Curd Recipe BUY
Cupcake Batter
250 Grams golden caster sugar
Zest 1 lemon
150 Grams unsalted butter BUY
200 Grams SR flour
2 eggs
50 Grams milk, with juice 1/2 lemon stirred in to sour
Icing
35 Grams plain flour
200 Grams full cream milk
150 Grams sugar
200 Grams unsalted butter BUY
35 Grams vanilla bean paste BUY

Do

1: Preheat oven to 160ºC (fan forced). Prepare muffin tin with paper liners.
2: Prepare Citrus Curd and set aside. Wash and dry Thermomix bowl.
3: To make Cupcakes: Place sugar and zest into Thermomix bowl and mill 10-15 sec/speed 9.
4: Add butter and chop 5-10 sec/speed 7. Scrape down sides of bowl and insert Butterfly. Cream mix for 1 min/speed 4.
5: Add half the flour and continue to beat on speed 4. Reduce to speed 2 and drop eggs through lid onto rotating blades one at a time.
6: Add remaining flour and milk combined with lemon juice. Mix 20 sec/speed 4. Scrape down sides of bowl if necessary and beat another 20 sec/speed 4.
7: Drop a generous tablespoon of cupcake mixture into each cupcake liner. Using a teaspoon, dollop a small amount of Citrus Curd on top of cupcake. Cover with additional cupcake mixture but DO NOT OVERFILL.
8: Bake for 20-25 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to cooling rack to completely cool before icing.
9: To make Icing: Place flour and milk into Thermomix bowl and blend 5 sec/speed 6. Cook 15 min/80ºC/speed 4. Pour into bowl, cover with plastic wrap, pushing plastic completely down onto surface of mixture. Cool completely.
10: In clean and dry Thermomix bowl, add sugar and mill 15 sec/speed 9. Add butter and chop 5-10 sec/speed 7. Insert butterfly and aerate butter and sugar 1-2min/speed 3/MC off. Scrape down sides of bowl as necessary.
11: Add vanilla and beat 6 sec/speed 4. Add cooked and cooled milk mixture and continue to beat for around 2-3 minutes/speed 3 until very smooth and white. Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes (no longer and no less!) Ice cupcakes immediately.

Makes approximately 20 cupcakes.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!