Lemon Cake with Egg Whites
- 3 Egg white
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 100 grams Butter
- 100 grams Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 Lemon
- 50 grams Powdered sugar
- 1 dash Dragees
- Grease the muffin tins with butter and lightly dust them with flour.
- Put into the refrigerator.
- Zest the lemon.
- If you're worried about pesticides, wash with baking soda before this step.
- Squeeze out the lemon juice.
- Add the sugar to the egg white in a bowl and mix well.
- You don't need to whip it.
- Add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and the lemon zest to Step 4.
- Divide the flour and baking powder into two portions, then sift in one portion at a time, mixing with each addition.
- Add melted butter by trickling it onto a spatula into the bowl, and mix.
- Put the batter into the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
- Heat the oven to 200F Celsius.
- Pour the batter into the muffin tins.
- Reduce the temperature of the oven from 200F Celsius to 180F Celsius and bake for 15~18 minutes.
- When a skewer or toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean, it's done.
- To retain the moistness, wrap in plastic wrap once cooled.
- Add the lemon juice to the sugar a little at a time while watching the consistency to make the icing.
- It should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon and drip slowly.
- Top the cupcakes with the icing and garnish with dragees.
- Yurimama's tip --> If you add just a little lemon juice to the sugar, then heat in the microwave until the plate turns half way around, it will make hard, white icing.
- You can adjust the amount of lemon juice in the batter to your liking.
egg, flour, butter, sugar, baking powder, lemon, powdered sugar, dragees
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153272-lemon-cake-with-egg-whites (may not work)