Lemon and rosemary cakes

  • Portion size: Makes 10
  • Takes 20 minutes to make, 15-20 minutes to bake, plus cooling and decorating
  • Difficulty: easy

Everyone loves a cupcake and these prettier-than-pretty beauties are made to share. The lemon gives them a lovely light flavour.

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Ingredients

  • 100g spreadable butter
  • 100g golden caster sugar
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary leaves, plus rosemary blossom, to decorate
  • Grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 100g icing sugar
  • Pink, blue and yellow food colourings
  • 50g coloured sugar eggs
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Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Line a bun tin with 10 paper cake cases.
  2. Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, chopped rosemary, zest and milk in a large bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or electric whisk until smooth. Divide between the paper cake cases, until about three-quarters full.
  3. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until risen, golden and just firm to the touch. Allow to cool.
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  5. Mix the icing sugar with about 1 tablespoon cold water until smooth. Divide the icing between 3 bowls and add a drop of food colouring to each. Drizzle a teaspoonful of the coloured icings onto the cakes – one colour per cake. Put a sprig of rosemary blossom and a sugar egg onto each. Keep in a cake tin for up to 3 days.

Nutrition

  • 225kcals Calories
  • 9.8g (5.6g saturated) Fat
  • 2.5g Protein
  • 34.1g (26.4g sugars) Carbs
  • 0.3g Salt
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