These are just standard vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing. The recipe for the cake can be found here. The recipe for the icing can be found here.
Have a great St. Patrick’s day. Even if you are into green beer, I won’t hold that against you! LOL
This week’s Tuesday with Dorie was hosted by Liliana of My Cookbook Addiction. If you’ve never visited her blog, you should! It’s cute and a lot of fun. She’s got some recipes there that I can’t wait to try. For her selection, Liliana chose Dorie’s French Yogurt Cake with Marmalade Glaze. While I did make the French Yogurt Cake something tells me you can look at that picture and tell that’s not quite a marmalade glaze flowing over it :)
I’ll confess right here, when I read the recipe I thought it was called “Lemon Yogurt Cake”. Not sure how it happened other than the fact that I’ve got serious lemon-on-the-brain syndrome going on. I’m still trying to figure out how to approach my neighbors down the way and ask if I can harvest the crop of lemons overflowing on their front-yard tree. What can I say… I’m shy. I’ve been consumed with all things lemon lately and I honestly thought this was supposed to be a lemon yogurt cake. When I went to the store to buy yogurt… I bought lemon yogurt. I should also confess that I love yogurt and eat it for breakfast probably 4-5 days each week. Once I discovered this recipe did not call for lemon yogurt but instead plain yogurt, well, it was too late… my yogurt was lemon and we were just gonna go for it from there! LOL.
When I read the instructions for making the marmalade glaze, it called for lemon marmalade. Okay so maybe that’s where I got the lemon brain-wave with this cake! But wait… lemon marmalade? Not something easily found in my neck of the woods and I live in a big city. I wanted to be true to this recipe so I scoured the internet for recipes to make my own lemon marmalade. I discovered it’s not terribly difficult however it does take time. Most recipes indicated at least 24hrs so there went that idea. Oh sure, I could’ve used Orange Marmalade (which I have) but thought it might interfere with the lemon flavor in the cake itself so the marmalade glaze wasn’t happening :(
I decided to make a batch of lemon curd and used some of the warm curd to glaze the top of my cake. Uh… can we say YUM!!!! But of course that wasn’t enough for me, I had to spoon some of the curd directly on my cake. Uh… can we say MEGA YUM! Wow – awesome idea… though admittedly I do love love love love LOVE lemon curd :)
Take a moment to check out the rest of the TwD bakers and how their French Yogurt Cake turned out. There were a few variations given in Dorie’s recipe so I bet there are some great cakes out there. Speaking of the recipe it’s on page 224 of Dorie’s book Baking From My Home To Yours (and probably on Liliana’s blog too).
Have a delicious day!
