{"id":3744,"date":"2011-12-12T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2013-03-02T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:16:36","slug":"lemon-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Lemon cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_3026edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_3026edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lemon cupcakes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_3026edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_3026edit-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made these using a recipe from my Primrose Bakery book.  They were a bit dry and not light.  Also, I took them out of the oven when they were still ever so slightly undercooked.  They&#8217;d cooled by the time I realised and put them back in the oven and when I took them out that second time, the tops of the cakes had browned more but the insides hadn&#8217;t cooked anymore. The lemon buttercream was very sweet, too sweet in fact.  <\/p>\n<p>I think one of the things I did wrong with this was not to beat it much by hand and try to do the majority of the mixing in the food processor (blade attachment).  Also I usually put an extra half or one tsp baking powder to give more lift but this time I forgot.<\/p>\n<p>The next time I fancy a lemony cake I&#8217;ll make the Nigel Slater lemon and thyme cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made these using a recipe from my Primrose Bakery book. They were a bit dry and not light. Also, I took them out of the oven when they were still ever so slightly undercooked. They&#8217;d cooled by the time I realised and put them back in the oven and when I took them out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}