Lemon and greek yogurt cupcakes with a lemon cream cheese frosting and fresh blueberries ~
For the cupcakes –
30g/ 1oz/ 1/4 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
120g/ 4 1/4oz/ 3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp lemon juice
100ml/ 1/2 cup whole milk
3 tbsp greek yogurt
120g/ 4 1/4oz/ 3/4 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
zest of 1/2 lemon
For the Frosting –
225g/ 8oz/ 1 3/4 cups icing sugar/ powdered sugar
50g/ 1 3/4oz/ 1/4 cup cream cheese
1 tbsp lemon juice
zest of 1/2 lemon
makes approx 6 cupcakes
To make the cupcakes –
– Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F/ gas mark 4 and line a muffin tin with cupcake cases.
– Cream together the butter and sugar.
– Whisk in the egg until the mixture is light and creamy. Then whisk in the milk, lemon juice and yogurt.
– Fold in the flour, baking powder, lemon zest and salt.
– Spoon the mixture into the cupcakes cases, filling each one about 2/3 full.
– Bake for 20-25 minutes until risen and golden.
– Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the frosting –
– Whisk all the ingredients together until smooth and creamy.
– Pipe the icing around the edge of each cupcake and fill the middle with fresh blueberries
I love lemon in dessert š
Yum! I love lemon! These look delicious!
Very pretty!
Those look great, and they’re so pretty! I love the lemon and blueberry combination and a cream cheese forsting is never an issue š Thanks for the recipe.
Your cupcakes look gorgeous. I don’t have much patience to frost cupcakes that often, but I love the combination of flavors here!
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Love the blueberry lemon combo! These are so beautiful š
I LOVE blueberry and lemon –such a great pairing. Your cupcakes are so cute!
These cupcakes are heavenly! Love the lemon flavor and greek yogurt in it!
Lemon and blueberry, classic combo!
I love lemons… and these cupcakes look divine!!! Beautiful presentation as well, Rosie!!!
These sound amazing! I was going to make scones with the blueberries I bought but I might have to make these instead. Your pictures are lovely, too!
ooh I love this combo and am planning to do something like this one of these days! argghhh, if only blueberries weren’t so expensive and difficult to find here (in malaysia) lol! yours look amazing!
Yum! They look and sound delicious, what a lovely combination.
The three blueberries in the middle are so cute! I love lemon, so I’ll have to try these sometime.
They look so pretty! I really want to try these this weekend- can I leave out the greek yogurt? If not, is there a easy substitute I can use?
Hi Amy, thanks! Sure, I think that would be fine. I would just up the butter content slightly if you’re not using yogurt – go for 40g/ 1.5 oz butter instead. Hope that helps!