Lemon Cupcakes Pink pigs in the year of the Pig-Boar

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Desired products.

2. Step 2:

   

   DOUGH: In a bowl, combine the soft butter and sugar.

3. Step 3:

   

   Beat the butter and sugar with a mixer for a minute, then add the eggs and beat well again.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add milk at room temperature, add zest and lemon juice. Mix everything on a low speed mixer.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add flour mixed with baking powder.

6. Step 6:

   

   Knead a homogeneous dough.

7. Step 7:

   

   Spread the dough into molds lined with paper capsules. In total, you should get 12 cupcakes, each will take about 1.5 tablespoons of dough.

8. Step 8:

   

   Bake cupcakes in a preheated 180 degree oven for 25-30 minutes. Take the finished cupcakes out of the oven and let them cool completely.

9. Step 9:

   

   CREAM: Combine cream cheese at room temperature, powdered sugar and pink gel food coloring.

11. Step 10:

    

    Beat for a minute.

12. Step 11:

    

    About 0.5 tablespoons of cream to put in a separate bowl, add a couple of drops of red gel food coloring and mix until the color is uniform.

13. Step 12:

    

    CUPCAKES: Lubricate the surface of each cupcake with pink cream.

14. Step 13:

    

    DECORATION: Cut Marshmallows like this: 6 pieces - lengthwise in half to get 12 "piglets", and 6 more pieces - in half and diagonally in half again to get 24 "ears"-triangles. Decorate cupcakes with these blanks.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put the red cream in a pastry bag, cut off a small tip and draw the piglets' eyes and mouth.

16. Step 15:

    

    With melted chocolate on "piglets " draw nostrils.

17. Step 16:

    

    Bon appetit!

18. Step 17:

    

    Have a fun holiday!