Lemon Cupcakes

One of hubby’s coworkers, George, has been asking for Lemon cupcakes ever since I made these lemon cookies. Hubby and I both weren’t huge fans of the cookies, but George LOVED them.

After the January DB challenge, I had about a cup or so of leftover lemon curd. I could have eaten it all with a spoon, but I figured I could mix them into a cupcake instead.

I used the vanilla cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and added about 3/4 cup of lemon curd to the batter at the end. Then I put a teaspon of lemon curd directly on top of the cooled cupcakes. Last, I topped them with cool-whip frosting with the rest of the lemon curd mixed into it. I also threw some lemon zest into the frosting for texture.

These cupcakes were great. The lemon flavor was subtle and the cool-whip frosting balanced the flavors well. The recipe made 14 cupcakes, 12 of which went to work with hubby. He reported back that George ate 4 and said that he loves me 🙂

Lemon Cupcakes – adapted from Vanilla cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take over The World – makes 14
1 cup soy milk
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp cornstarch
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup non-hydrogenated margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extrat, caramel extract, or more vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 and line muffin pan with cupcake liners.

Whisk the soy milk and vinegar in a measuring cup and set aside a few minutes to get good and curdled.

Sift the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl and mix.

In a separate large bowl, use a handheld mixer at medium speed to cream the margarine and sugar for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy, but don’t beat past 2 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and other extract, if using, then alternate beating in the soy milk mixture and dry ingredients, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl a few times.

I then folded in 3/4 cup of lemon curd.

Fill cupcake liners two-thirds of the way and bake for 20-22 minutes until done. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely before frosting.

Cool-Whip frosting – not sure of the original recipe, but here’s what I did:
1 tub Cool Whip
1 pkg vanilla pudding
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup lemon curd
2 tsp lemon zest

Combine pudding mix and milk and stir until mostly dissolved. Add remaining ingredients and stir until combined.

To Assemble cupcakes:
After cupcakes have cooled, scoop 1 tsp of lemon curd onto the top of each cupcake. Spread lemon curd with a knife to cover top of cupcake.

Pipe frosting on top of lemon curd.

Sprinkle with yellow sugar.

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18 Responses to “Tunnel of Fudge Cake”

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    vanillasugarblog — February 8, 2014 at 11:54 am

    this cake screams a lot of things!
    eat me comes to my mind!
    lol

    • beantownbaker — February 8th, 2014 @ 11:57 am

      It does definitely scream that 🙂

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    Aimee — February 9, 2014 at 7:14 am

    Gorgeous Bundt, Jen! It looks amazing. Love the butter and cocoa tip and the raspberries!

    • beantownbaker — February 9th, 2014 @ 8:58 pm

      Thanks 🙂

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    Tracy | Pale Yellow — February 10, 2014 at 7:31 pm

    Who needs a tunnel of love when you have a tunnel of fudge! This looks fantastic!!

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    Nutmeg Nanny — February 23, 2014 at 9:45 am

    This cake looks glorious 🙂 I am dying to get a slice, maybe two 😉

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    sue epstein — February 27, 2014 at 6:19 pm

    The original recipe called for a box of Pillsbury’s frosting mix and was much, much better than the current recipes. There was a tunnel of gooey soft fudge in the middle that you just can’t get with today’s recipes for this cake. But it’s still a great cake!

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    Lynne — February 28, 2014 at 9:35 pm

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    Marye Audet — March 21, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    One of my favorites! Thanks for the reminder..I need to make this – soon!

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    Heila — December 22, 2015 at 4:24 am

    I just tried this yummy recipe from your blog and it has come out really yummy!! 🙂
    This is my first tunnel of fudge cake and I am quite happy with the outcome…
    Thanks for sharing this easy recipe 🙂

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    Lois C. Flores — January 27, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Gorgeous!!! I’d love to try to make it for my family soon. Your recipe is so detailed, but to a clumsy person like me, Hopefully I won’t mess everything up haha.

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    Abigail C. Murdock — March 17, 2016 at 4:19 am

    Looking at the picture of your cake I just wanna try it immediately. It looks really good. It is good to make it at home and serve on some special occasions like birthday parties or a party with friends on weekends. Thanks Jen for sharing this recipe with us!

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    Dane Shaw — March 23, 2016 at 6:47 am

    Nice recipe Jen! Hope that I can do it the way you make your cake. Always love chocolate. Thank you for sharing it!

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    Healthoop — March 24, 2016 at 9:53 am

    oh my god, I fell in love with it at the first sight. So yummy and nice at the look. Thanks Jen for sharing wonderful recipe!

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    Anthony — April 20, 2016 at 12:34 am

    Awesome, you make it like an artist. It looks so delicious, I will try your recipe to make it for my kids. Thank you so much for sharing this!

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    Kathy — June 16, 2016 at 3:26 am

    This cake recipe looks very sweet and delicous. I will try it soon. Thank for share this great post.

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    Luis Sanborn — March 14, 2017 at 4:21 am

    This looks amazing, I will try this out tomorrow, thank you for sharing!

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