Lemon Gem Cupcakes
So what do you do when you are waiting for your cupcakes to cool?
Apparently I while away the hours filleting lemon peels with a sharp, sharp knife.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
The recipe calls for a very tasty lemon glaze, but have had trouble in the past making those look good. You can’t go wrong with piped frosting, so I made a batch of the Lemon Buttercream from VCTOtW for these puppies. But then what? I wanted to use the lemon peel, and my crazy brain kept saying, “use the paper punch!”
It was such a bad idea, I had to try it. Of course, the paper punch was made for, you know, punching paper. The lemon peels had to be thinned a bit or else it wasn’t going to happen. So I filleted them.
Pretty huh? I cut the lemon in four quarters, and got four flowers out of each piece. It wasn’t even a large lemon! I’m definitely going to use this technique again, and I think it’ll work equally well for limes and oranges. Ooohh, the just think of the possibilities. I need to buy more paper punches, stat!
*edit*
Oh man, I should have candied the lemon peel flowers! Not only would you be able to eat them, but they’ll keep for 6 months – I could have made a whole batch of them! I realized I should have candied them last night while I was trying to fall asleep, but was reminded again this morning when I saw the cupcakes and my cute little flowers were all shriveled up. So sad!
oooh it is a brilliant idea, the deco with lemon rind! it looks amazing.
These seriously take my breath away. They look like clouds!
At least you know about the lemon peel for next time, right? Don’t beat your self up! <3
Thanks Celine and Jess!
These are lovely! Almost too beautiful to eat.
Incidentally, you might want to try something like these cutters for the lemon rind.
Or these cutters, which look even more suitable!
Claudia, you’re brilliant! I love those bento fruit/veg cutters!
THey are so cool Claudia. I give it 10/10
You rock
Seriousssly, they look so beautiful! What exactly do you mean by “candying” them?
So I’m not at all vegan, in fact, I’m an unabashed carnivore, but have always appreciated good vegan food, because not only is it tasty, but it’s quite impressive the creativity vegan chefs have.
A vegan friend of mine sent me a link to the knit night cupcakes, and I checked out the rest of your site. You see, I’m getting married this July, and while I was going to have a local cupcake bakery do cupcakes for the wedding (including vegan cupcakes for my vegan friend), I’ve been seriously toying with the idea of making them myself. And I’ve been looking for some way to make all the cupcakes beautiful and to fit in with the rose theme for the wedding, and those candied flower citrus peels are PERFECT.
So, in short, thank you.
That’s so cool! And I have that paper punch…I’ll definitely have to try it!